bliny
- n Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream
- Wrote Gogol: "Moscow is an old home-keeping person, it bakes bliny, it looks from afar and listens, without rising from the armchair, to the tale of what goes on in the world.
- The feast began with sturgeon, smoked salmon and caviar on bliny (Russian pancakes).