Finest anchovies

Konstantin Pobedonostsev (Константи́н Петро́вич Победоно́сцев) was the "éminence grise" of imperial politics during the reign of Tsar Alexander III. He was the force behind the Manifesto on Unshakeable Autocracy that  proclaimed the absolute power of the Tsar in Russia, and like Julius Caesar he had the irritating habit  of trividing the world into three parts. Whilst writing a sardonic sonnet (for the Seven Dials Festival), claiming to praise Pobedonostsev, Rabbi Oud Ramonides discovers that the Tsar's old advisor had a penchant for Portuguese intense anchovies, and had, just before his death in 1907, sent a recipe for Gentlemen's Relish and anchovies with garlic bread to Lytton Strachey. The process involved heating the combination on a solid fuel heater. Quelle finesse.