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Isidore of Kiev. Isidore of Kiev[a], also known as Isidore of Thessalonica (1385 – 27 April 1463), was a prelate of Byzantine Greek origin. From 1437 to 1441 he served as the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' in the patriarchate of Constantinople of the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was a supporter of the Union of Florence which he proclaimed ...
Vodka can also be used in cooking and various recipes are improved by the addition of vodka or rely on it as a key ingredient. Vodka sauce is a pasta sauce made from tomato sauce, cream, and vodka that gained popularity in the 1970s. Vodka can be used in baking as a substitute for water: pie crusts can be made flakier with vodka. [63]
Smirnoff (/ ˈsmɪərnɒf /; Russian: [smʲɪrˈnof]) is a brand of vodka owned and produced by the British company Diageo. The Smirnoff brand began with a vodka distillery founded in Moscow by Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov (1831–1898). [1] It is distributed in 130 countries, [1] and manufactured locally in some, as in Illinois in the United States.
The city's many local distilleries produce a broad range of vodka brands. The oldest ones is LIVIZ (founded in 1897). Among the youngest is Russian Standard Vodka introduced in Moscow in 1998, which opened in 2006 a new $60 million distillery in Petersburg (an area of 30,000 m 2 (320,000 sq ft), production rate of 22,500 bottles per hour). In ...
Although Linda Himelstein's King of Vodka concerns itself with a different time and a distant land, the byzantine history of the founding and eventual disintegration of the Smirnov vodka empire ...
A review by Anastasia Krainer for Nash Film noted Vasily the kitten "is a hero without fear and reproach." The review also noted the impetus for the anticipation to the cartoon was high considering the last season to animated series Well, Just You Wait! finished just at the cartoon was starting to be produced. The fairy tale qualities of the ...
The Kremlin’s more recent efforts at waging information warfare against Ukraine have often been clumsy, contradictory or improvisational. For one thing, Moscow originally insisted it launched ...
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."