Linda Himelstein - The King of Vodka

World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), 165–66

World War I, 274, 275–85, 288, 293

World War II, 328

Yakovlev, Aleksander, 14

Yaron, Grigoriy, 255, 257

Yaron, Mark, 257

Yaroslavl province, 7, 8, 14, 15, 33, 48, 49, 184–85, 186

Yeltsin, Boris, 335, 336

Yusupov, Felix, Prince, 280

zemstvo (civic groups), 55

Zhemchugova, Praskovya, 29–30

Zhukov, Nikolay Nikolayevich, 74–75, 77

Ziloti, Aleksander, 38–39

Zimina, Avdotya, 122, 124

Zimin family, 10, 124

Zola, Émile, xix–xx

LINDA HIMELSTEINbegan her career in the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal before working at the San Francisco Recorder and the Legal Times. In 1993 she joined BusinessWeek as a legal affairs editor, writing about a wide array of topics, including the tobacco industry and Wall Street. One of her cover stories helped BusinessWeek win the National Magazine Award. Later, as the magazine’s Silicon Valley bureau chief, she wrote about the infancies of eBay, Yahoo!, and other companies. She lives with her family in Northern California.

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1. “Pokhorony P. A. Smirnova,” Moskovskiy Listok , Dec. 3, 1898.

2. Ibid.

3. David Christian, Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 27.

4. Ibid., 45.

5. State Archives of the Yaroslavl province, subsidiary in Uglich, Fund 1, Inv. 1, Case 2604, 21.

6. Ibid., Fund 56, Inv. 1, Case 1053, 11/Inv. 1, Case 1076, 25.

7. Central Historical Archives of Moscow, Fund 3, Inv. 3, Case 419 (hereafter CHAM).

8. Vestnik finansov, promyshlennosti I torgovli, Ukazatel pravitelstvennyh rasporyazheny po ministerstvu finansov. 1899. Otchyoty kreditnyh uchrezhdeniy, torgovyh I promyshlennyh predpriyatiy (St. Petersburg: Tipografiya Ministerstva Finansov V. Kirschbauma, 1899), 755.

9. CHAM, Fund 142, Inv. 5, Case 809, 2 and 34–49.

10. “Pokhorony P. A. Smirnova,” Moskovskiy Listok , Dec. 3, 1898.

11. Patricia Herlihy, The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 7.

12. A. P. Chekhov, Complete Works (Moscow-Leningrad: The State Publishing House of Artistic Literature, 1932), vol. 11:194–95.

13. Herlihy, Alcoholic Empire , 113.

14. William E. Johnson, The Liquor Problem in Russia (Westerville, OH: The American Issue Publishing Co., 1915), 154–57.

15. Albom uchastnikov vserossiyskoy promyshlennoy i Khudozhestvennoy Vystavski v Nizhnem Novgorode 1896 g (St. Petersburg: Tipografiya Ministerstva Putey Soobshcheniya, 1896), Part 2, Dept. “zh,” 47–48.

16. Central State Archives of Moscow, Fund 142, Inv. 5, Case 809, 76–77 (hereafter CSAM).

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2. P. Karatygin. Cholera of 1830-31 (St. Petersburg: M. M. Stasyulevich, 1887), 13.

3. McGrew, Russia and the Cholera.

4. F. A. Brocgauz, I. A. Efron. Entsyklopedicheskiy slovar . Vol. T. XXV A(50) (St. Petersburg: tipo-litografiya I.A. Efrona, 1898), 841.

5. Cholera of 1830. Rasskaz avtora Afoni-Bogatyrya, (Moscow, 1875), 6.

6. McGrew, Russia and the Cholera of 1823–1832 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965), 111.

7. Ibid., 111–13.

8. M. Sh. Shafeyev, L. M. Zorina, I. K. Khasanova et al., Especially Dangerous Diseases: Epidemiology and prophylaxis (Kazan: KGMU, 2001), 26.

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10. “Litso russkoy natsionalnosti.” Vlast, Sept. 26, 2005.

11. State Archives of the Yaroslavl province, subsidiary in Uglich, Fund 43, Inv. 1, Case 904, 395-a, 336-a, and 346.

12. V. A. Pushkin and B. A. Kostin, As a Reason of Unified Love to Motherland (Moscow: Molodaya Gvardia, 1998), 101, http://militera.lib.ru/bio/pushkin_kostin/index.html.

13. A. A. Galagan, Istoriya predprinimatelstva rossiyskogo: Ot kuptsa do bankira (Moscow: Os-89, 1997), 61.

14. State Archive of the Yaroslavl Province, subsidiary in Uglich, Fund 1, Inv. 1, Case 2604. 20.

15. Ibid., 23.

16. Ibid., 22.

17. William L. Blackwell, The Industrialization of Russia (Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson Inc., 1982), 20–23.

18. State Archives of the Yaroslavl province, subsidiary in Uglich, Fund 1, Inv. 1, Case 2672, 37–38.

19. Russkiye Vedomosti , no. 105, Saturday, May 19, 1873, 1.

1. A. G. Rashin, “Population of Russia over 100 years (1811–1913),” in Statistical essays , ed. S. F. Strumilin (Moscow, 1956), 124–25.

2. German Shtrumph, 1871, quoted after http://saturday.ng.ru/time/2000-04-08/1_cloakamaxima.html, Subbotnik 25 (72), June 30, 2001.

3. Orlando Figes, Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2002), 27–36.

4. Ibid., 36.

5. Ibid., 144.

1. CHAM, Fund 2, Inv. 1, Case 5665, 4.

2. Federalnaya arkhivnaya sluzhba Rossii. Vserossiyskiy nauchnoissledovatelskiy institut dokumentovedeniya i arkhivnogo dela. Genealogicheskaya informatsiya v gosudarstvennyh arkhivah Rossii. Spravochnoye posobiye (Moscow, 1996), 126.

3. Dostoevskiy, F. M., “Dnevnik pisatelya za 1876 god.” Complete works in 30 volumes. (Leningrad: Nauka, 1981), vol. 23, 158.