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The name Stolichnaya is pronounced in Russian [stɐˈlʲit͡ɕnajə]. [2] The word is the adjectival form of столица (stolitsa), meaning "capital city". [3] The Soyuzplodoimport bottle label features the words "Stolichnaya Vodka" in gold cursive script over a drawing of a Moscow landmark, the recently rebuilt Hotel Moskva.
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 However, following Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin repealed the prohibition in 1925 and brought back the state vodka monopoly system to increase government revenue.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 marketing claims that, "In 1894, Dmitri Mendeleev, the greatest scientist in all Russia, received the decree to set the Imperial quality standard for Russian vodka and the 'Russian Standard' was born", [9] or that the vodka is "compliant with the highest quality of Russian vodka approved by the royal government commission headed by Mendeleev in 1894."
At the beginning of World War I, prohibition was introduced in the Russian Empire, limiting the sale of hard liquor to restaurants. After the Bolshevik Party came to power, they made repeated attempts to reduce consumption in the Soviet Union. [8] However, by 1925, vodka had reappeared in state-run stores. [11]
Stoli has had a long, complicated history with Russia. Founded in Russia in the 1930s, the company was owned by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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 .
Russian and Ukrainian beers. In Russia, beer (Russian: пиво pivo) is tied with vodka as the most popular alcoholic drink in the country. The average Russian person drank about 11.7 liters of pure alcohol in 2016, with beer and vodka accounting for 39% each. [1] Russians categorize beer by color rather than fermentation process: Light, Red ...
Moskovskaya vodka Latvian Moskovskaya Pink vodka flavoured with raspberry and lime. Moskovskaya special vodka (Russian: Московская особая водка; English: Moscow special vodka) or simply Moskovskaya vodka is an early Russian brand of vodka introduced in 1894 by the Russian state vodka monopoly.