Origin of the word "mess"?

According to ethnographers and specialists grossmama language, this word came to us from the Volga boatmen, and this happened a long time ago. Once the haulers were called "mess" brew whip up a soup of fish, roach, onion, crumbs, wheat and coarse crusts fat. Now this colorful word mean turmoil, controversy, discord, the cause of which is difficult to understand.