Russian Famine of 1601-1603 (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Russian famine of 1601-1603 was Russia's worst famine, killing perhaps a third of Russians during the Time of Troubles. It was probably tied to the eruption of a volcano in Peru named Huaynaputina, which ejected from 16 million to 32 million metric tons of particulates into the atmosphere, notably sulfur dioxide, forming sulfuric acid (see volcanic winter). This prevented sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface, causing massive famine and bitterly cold winters.During this two and half year period, 127,000 bodies were buried in mass graves in Moscow alone. Widespread starvation killed perhaps two million in Russia (see references).