Mimi Lagidze", and what is the connection between Stalin, Roosevelt, Truman and everything, we all continue to talk about one of the most famous surnames in Georgia (part one here). Many legends are associated with the name of the entrepreneur Mitropan Lagidze, who opened a business for the production of soft drinks in the Russian Empire, and in the Soviet Union, in fact, became the manager of his factory. According to one of them, in the early 1930s, Lagidza was summoned to Moscow following a denunciation that he was allegedly hiding drink recipes. Mitropan Verlamovich responded by saying that he had no secrets and that he could make lemonade on the spot, which he did in the presence of Stalin - who by the way preferred lemonade. In general, the tastes of the Soviet party elite were as follows: Khrushchev liked pear and orange, Brezhnev - pear and tarragon, Kalinin - orange, Mikoyan - pear and lemon. During the Soviet Union, the Georgian Lagidza Waters plant operated a separate lemonade-making workshop for the country's top leadership: drinks were delivered to Moscow on Mondays. Gidza water was supplied during the Tehran and Yalta conferences of 1943 and 1945. Historians report that Franklin Roosevelt took 2,000 case bottles, and Winston Churchill mentioned lemonade in his memoirs. In 1952, US President Harry Truman sent Stalin a thousand bottles of Coca-Cola as a gift - it was impossible to stay in debt. 83-year-old Mitropan Lagidze was urgently called to Moscow to create a new flavor of lemonade! As a result, a group of bottles went to America, which included pear, dogwood, lemon, cream soda, cream lemonades and chocolate. Truman loved them so much that, according to some reports, he even began negotiations for imports to bring the water to the US. As for the secret taste of the famous lemonades, the Soviet poet Yevgeny Yavtushenko, who loved Georgia very much, dedicated to the inventor a whole poem "Mimi Lagidza", which contains the following lines: Old Lagidza died as he should have.

Mimi Lagidze", and what is the connection between Stalin, Roosevelt, Truman and everything, we all continue to talk about one of the most famous surnames in Georgia (part one here). Many legends are associated with the name of the entrepreneur Mitropan Lagidze, who opened a business for the production of soft drinks in the Russian Empire, and in the Soviet Union, in fact, became the manager of his factory. According to one of them, in the early 1930s, Lagidza was summoned to Moscow following a denunciation that he was allegedly hiding drink recipes. Mitropan Verlamovich responded by saying that he had no secrets and that he could make lemonade on the spot, which he did in the presence of Stalin - who by the way preferred lemonade. In general, the tastes of the Soviet party elite were as follows: Khrushchev liked pear and orange, Brezhnev - pear and tarragon, Kalinin - orange, Mikoyan - pear and lemon. During the Soviet Union, the Georgian Lagidza Waters plant operated a separate lemonade-making workshop for the country's top leadership: drinks were delivered to Moscow on Mondays. Gidza water was supplied during the Tehran and Yalta conferences of 1943 and 1945. Historians report that Franklin Roosevelt took 2,000 case bottles, and Winston Churchill mentioned lemonade in his memoirs. In 1952, US President Harry Truman sent Stalin a thousand bottles of Coca-Cola as a gift - it was impossible to stay in debt. 83-year-old Mitropan Lagidze was urgently called to Moscow to create a new flavor of lemonade! As a result, a group of bottles went to America, which included pear, dogwood, lemon, cream soda, cream lemonades and chocolate. Truman loved them so much that, according to some reports, he even began negotiations for imports to bring the water to the US. As for the secret taste of the famous lemonades, the Soviet poet Yevgeny Yavtushenko, who loved Georgia very much, dedicated to the inventor a whole poem "Mimi Lagidza", which contains the following lines: Old Lagidza died as he should have.