"Kodi tingayembekezere bwanji kuti mtendere ndi chitukuko zidzalamulira padziko lapansi ngati matupi athu ali manda amoyo momwe nyama zakufa zimakwiriridwa?" Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Kukambitsirana kwakukulu ponena za kukana kudya nyama, komanso kusintha kwa zakudya zochokera ku zomera, kufunika kogwiritsa ntchito bwino zachilengedwe, kunayamba mu 1878, pamene magazini ya ku Russia Vestnik Evropy inasindikiza nkhani ndi Andrey Beketov pa mutu wakuti "Present and the future human nutrition".
Andrey Beketov - pulofesa-botanist ndi rector wa St. Petersburg University mu 1876-1884. Iye analemba ntchito yoyamba m'mbiri ya Russia pa mutu wa zamasamba. Nkhani yake inathandiza kuti pakhale gulu lofuna kuthetsa maganizo okhudza kudya nyama, komanso kusonyeza anthu chiwerewere ndi kuvulaza thanzi chifukwa cha kudya nyama. Beketov ankanena kuti dongosolo la m'mimba la munthu limasinthidwa kuti likhale ndi masamba, masamba ndi zipatso. Nkhaniyi idafotokozanso za kusagwira bwino ntchito kwa ziweto kaamba koti kulima chakudya cha ziweto chochokera ku zomera n’kofunika kwambiri, pamene munthu angagwiritse ntchito zinthuzi polima zakudya za m’mbewu kuti azidya yekha. Komanso, zakudya zambiri zamasamba zimakhala ndi mapuloteni ambiri kuposa nyama.
Beketov anafika ponena kuti kukula kwa chiŵerengero cha anthu padziko lapansi kudzachititsa kuti pakhale kusowa kwa malo odyetserako ziweto, zomwe zidzathandiza kuchepetsa kuswana kwa ng’ombe. Mawu onena za kufunika kwa zakudya zonse zomera ndi nyama chakudya, iye ankaona ngati tsankho ndipo anali wotsimikiza mtima kuti munthu akhoza kulandira mphamvu zonse zofunika kuchokera zomera ufumu. Kumapeto kwa nkhani yake, iye akuvumbula zifukwa za makhalidwe abwino zokanira kudya nyama: “Chisonyezero chapamwamba cha ulemu ndi makhalidwe abwino a munthu ndicho chikondi pa zamoyo zonse, pa chilichonse chimene chimakhala m’Chilengedwe, osati cha anthu okha. . Chikondi choterocho sichingagwirizane ndi kupha nyama zambiri. Kupatula apo, kudana ndi kukhetsa magazi ndi chizindikiro choyamba cha umunthu. (Andrey Beketov, 1878)
Leo Tolstoy inali yoyamba, zaka 14 pambuyo pa kusindikizidwa kwa nkhani ya Beketov, yemwe anatembenuza maso a anthu omwe anali mkati mwa nyumba zophera nyama ndikufotokozera zomwe zinali kuchitika mkati mwa mpanda wawo. Mu 1892, adafalitsa nkhani yotchedwa , yomwe inachititsa kuti anthu azisangalala ndipo anthu a m'nthawi yake ankatchedwa "Bible of Russian Vegetarianism". M’nkhani yake, iye anatsindika mfundo yakuti munthu akhoza kukhala wokhwima mwauzimu ngati ayesetsa kusintha. Kudziletsa kudziletsa pazakudya za nyama kudzakhala chizindikiro chakuti chikhumbo cha kudzitukumula kwa munthu ndi chachikulu komanso chowona mtima, akutero.
Tolstoy amalankhula za kuyendera nyumba yophera nyama ku Tula, ndipo kufotokozeraku mwina ndi gawo lopweteka kwambiri la ntchito ya Tolstoy. Posonyeza kuopsa kwa zimene zikuchitika, iye analemba kuti “tilibe ufulu wodzilungamitsa mwa kusadziwa. Sitili nthiwatiwa, kutanthauza kuti tisamaganize kuti ngati sitiona ndi maso athu, ndiye kuti sizichitika.” (Leo Tolstoy, 1892).
Pamodzi ndi Leo Tolstoy, ndikufuna kutchula anthu otchuka ngati Ilya Repin - mwina m'modzi mwa akatswiri ojambula kwambiri aku Russia, Nikolai Ge - wojambula wotchuka Nikolay Leskov - wolemba yemwe, kwa nthawi yoyamba m'mbiri ya mabuku achi Russia, adawonetsa zamasamba monga munthu wamkulu (, 1889 ndi, 1890).
Leo Tolstoy mwiniwakeyo adasandulika kukhala zamasamba mu 1884. Mwatsoka, kusintha kwa zakudya zobzala kunali kochepa, ndipo patapita kanthawi adabwerera ku kudya mazira, kugwiritsa ntchito zovala zachikopa ndi ubweya.
Munthu wina wotchuka waku Russia komanso wamasamba - Paolo Troubetzkoy, wosema ndi wojambula wotchuka padziko lonse yemwe anajambula Leo Tolstoy ndi Bernard Shaw, yemwenso anapanga chipilala cha Alexander III. Iye anali woyamba kufotokoza lingaliro la zamasamba muzosema - "Divoratori di cadaveri" 1900.
Ndizosatheka kukumbukira amayi awiri odabwitsa omwe adagwirizanitsa miyoyo yawo ndi kufalikira kwa zamasamba, chikhalidwe cha zinyama ku Russia: Natalia Nordman и Anna Barikova.
Natalia Nordman adayambitsa chiphunzitso ndi machitidwe a chakudya chaiwisi pamene adakamba nkhani pamutuwu mu 1913. N'zovuta kufotokoza ntchito ndi zopereka za Anna Barikova, yemwe anamasulira ndi kufalitsa mabuku asanu a John Guy pa nkhani ya nkhanza. kudyera masuku pamutu kwachiwembu ndi chiwerewere.