15. What They Did With These Mammoths in the Czar's Time
It was not uncommon in Czarist Russia to find these frozen mammoths in Siberia. Do you know what they did with them? Well, they weren't studied scientifically. They were shipped frozen in railroad trains to Moscow. Were they put on exhibit there? Well, not quite.
The mammoths were reserved for the Czar's table. Yes, the Russia nobility feasted on them at grand state banquests. The soon-to-be-extinct feasting on the extinct.
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