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Local authorities initially set the production quota for the Itkul Distillery at 50,000 buckets (a Russian measure of capacity, roughly equal to 12,3 liters) of polugar (a Russian standard for a 38% ABV spirit) per annum (p.a.) However, the actual production volume would soon exceed this quota, reaching 100,000 buckets p.a. by the mid-1870s and ...
A Vodka museum in Russia, located in Verkhniye Mandrogi, Leningrad Oblast. The first written usage of the word vodka in an official Russian document in its modern meaning is dated by the decree of Empress Elizabeth of 8 June 1751, which regulated the ownership of vodka distilleries. By the 1860s, a government policy of promoting the consumption ...
A History of Vodka (Russian: «История водки», Romanized: Istoriya vodki) is an academic monograph by William Pokhlyobkin, which was awarded the Langhe Ceretto Prize. Although the work had been finished in 1979, it was published just before the dissolution of the Soviet Union .
A study by Russian, British and French researchers published in The Lancet scrutinized deaths between 1990 and 2001 of residents of three Siberian industrial towns with typical mortality rates and determined that 52% of deaths of people between the ages of 15 and 54 were the result of complications of alcohol use disorder. [21]
This summer the Russian government seized the two remaining Stoli distilleries in Russia. Stoli also rebranded after the Russian invasion of Ukraine to blunt any boycotts of the vodka brand. Until ...
Lenin retained the prohibition, which remained in place through the Russian Civil War and into the period of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. However, following Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin repealed the prohibition in 1925 and brought back the state vodka monopoly system to increase government revenue. [4] [5]
The protests originated in September 1858 in the Kovno Governorate, a Catholic province of Tsarist Lithuania, where local villagers took oaths to abstain from drinking vodka, and all other hard liquors except for 'medicinal purposes'. [2] Non-distilled alcohol, such as wine or beer, was still permitted. [2]
The alcohol monopoly was created in the Swedish town of Falun in 1850, to prevent overconsumption and reduce the profit motive for sales of alcohol. It later went all over the country in 1905 when the Swedish parliament ordered all sales of vodka to be done via local alcohol monopolies. [2]