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4. Ibid.

5. Nadezhda von Mekk to P. I. Tchaikovskiy, Belair, Mar. 2, 1887, Perepiska s N.F. Mekk, vol. 3, 1882–90 (Moscow-Leningrad: Academia, 1936), 467.

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

7. V. A. Fyodorov, The Peasants’ Sobriety Movement in 1858–1860s, vol. 2, The Revolutionary Situation in Russia 1859–1861 (Moscow, 1962), 110.

8. William E. Johnson, The Liquor Problem in Russia (Westerville, OH: American Issue Publishing Company, 1915), 117.

9. Ibid.

10. David Christian, Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 300–302.

11 Ibid., 311.

12. Ibid., 302–3.

13. Fyodorov, Peasants’ Sobriety Movement in 1858–1859 , 122.

14. CHAM, Fund 1264, Inv. 1, Case 29, 4.

15. Ibid., Case 34.

16. Thomas Owen, Russian Corporate Capitalism from Peter the Great to Perestroika (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 20.

17. N. V. Davydov, Descriptions of Moscow in the 1850s and 1860s (Moscow: Moskovskiy rabochiy, 1964), 22.

18. S. I. Chuprynin, Moskva i moskvichi v tvorchestve Petra Dmitriyevicha Boborykina//Boborykin P. D., Kitay-gorod (Moscow, 1985), 6.

1. Moskovskiye Vedomosti , Jan. 9, 1863, 3.

2. Igor Kurukin and Yelena Nikulina, Tsar’s Pub Business: Essays of Alcohol Politics and Traditions in Russia (Moscow: Publishing House AST, 2005), 129.

3. David Christian, Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 377–78.

4. I. G. Pryzhov, History of Beggary, Pub-Keeping and Hysterics in Russia, Online Source: http://pryzhov.narod.ru/kabak.html.

5. I. G. Pryzhov, Istoriya kabakov v Rossii v svyazi s istoriyey russkogo naroda (St. Petersburg-Moscow: M. O. Volf, 1868), 318–19.

6. Ben Eklof, Russia’s Great Reforms, 1855–1881 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994), 200.

7. Sekrety i nastavleniya vodochnomu torgovtsu po raznopitiyu i vodochnym skladam i sushchestvuyushchiye zakonopolozheniya po semu predmetu (Moscow, 1876), 67.

8. James L. West and Iurri A. Petrov, Merchant Moscow: Images of Russia’s Vanished Bourgeoisie (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998), 46.

9. S. V. Bakhrushin, ed. History of Moscow in Six Volumes (Moscow: Izdatelstvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1952–1959), vol. 4, 673.

10. Ibid., 721–22.

11. V. V. Skurlov and A. N. Ivanov, Postavshchiki vysochaishego dvora (St. Petersburg, 2002), 10–38.

12. Ibid., 4–8.

13. Russian State Historical Archive, Fund 472, Inv. 23 (253/1269), Case 9, 29–36 (hereafter RSHA).

1. “K 150-letiyu firmy “Petra Smirnova Synovya” (Iz vospominaniy i rasskazov moyego pokoynogo muzha V. P. Smirnova, umershago v 1934 godu)” Rodniye perezvony, #202, 1969, Bruzzels, 10.

2. James L. West and Iurri A. Petrov, Merchant Moscow: Images of Russia’s Vanished Bourgeoisie (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998), 63.

3. RSHA, Fund 472, Inv. 23 (253/1269), Case 9, 29–36.

4. Statisticheskiye etudy// Biblioteka dlya chteniya, St. Petersburg, 1864, Oct.–Nov., 31.

5. L. Ye. Shepelev, Tituly, Mundiry, Ordena v Rossiyskoy Imperii (Moscow: Nauka Publishing House, 1991), 112–142.

6. Alfred J. Rieber, Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1982), 124.

7. CHAM, Fund 3, Inv. 2, Case 405, back page, 1.

8. V. Gilyarovskiy, Moscow and Muskovites (Moscow: Poligrafresursy, 1999), http://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/gui/lya/rov/sky/4/index.htm.

9. N. N. Zhukov, Iz zapisnyh knizhek (Moscow: Sovetskaya Rossiya, 1976), 131–32.

10. Ukazatel russkogo otdela venskoy vsemirnoy vystavski 1873 goda (St. Petersburg, 1873), 50.11. CHAM, Fund 203, Inv. 764, Case 173, 293–94.

1. Ye. Trigo, The Business: A Literary Political Magazine (St. Petersburg: The Publishing House of V. Toushnov, 1873), 107.

2. New York Times , May 30, 1873.

3. Ye. Trigo, The Business: A Literary Political Magazine , 119.

4. S. Razgonov, Honor Before Profit: A Documentary Story about Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov, a Serf who became a Prince of Russian Vodka and a Hereditary Noble (Moscow: Inkombuk, 2000), 59.

5. Ye. Trigo, The Business, 107.

6. Russkiye Vedomosti , #105, May 19, 1873, 1.

7. New York Times , Aug. 10, 1873.

8. Grazhdanin , Nov. 12, 1873, 1229.

1. Vladimir Smirnov’s memoirs as told to his wife Tatiana Smirnova-Maksheyeva, obtained from Columbia University’s Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European Culture, translation provided by Bella Gregorian (hereafter noted as Vladimir Smirnov’s memoirs).

2. Svod uzakoneniy o zhenskih institutah vedomstva uchrezhdeniy imperatritsy Marii (St. Petersburg: Gosudarstvennaya tipografiya, 1903), 9.

3. Moscow State Historical Archive, Fund 3, Inv. 3, Case 419.

4. K 150-letiyu firmy “Petra Smirnova Synovya” (Iz vospominaniy i rasskazov moyego pokoynogo muzha V. P. Smirnova, umershago v 1934 godu), Rodniye perezvony, #202, Bruzzels, 11.

5. CHAM, Fund 46, Inv. 6, Case 26, 21.

6. “K 150-letiyu firmy “Petra Smirnova Synovya” (Iz vospominaniy i rasskazov moyego pokoynogo muzha V. P. Smirnova, umershago v 1934 godu)” Rodniye perezvony, #202, 1969, Bruzzels, 11.

7. James L. West and Iurri A. Petrov, Merchant Moscow: Images of Russia’s Vanished Bourgeoisie (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998), 142.

8. Pavel A. Buryshkin, Moskva kupecheskaya (New York: Chekhov Publishing Co., 1954), http://museum.micex.ru/annals/02?start=31.

9. New York Times , July 9, 1876, 2.

10. Albom uchastnikov Vserossiyskoy Promyshlennoy i Khudozhestvennoy Vystavski v Nizhnem Novgorode 1896 g (St. Petersburg: Tipografiya Ministerstva Putey Soobshcheniya, 1896), Part 2, Dept. “g,” 47.

11. Rabocheye Dvizhenie v Rossii v XIX veke (Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo politicheskoy literatury, 1951), vol. 2, Part 2, 644–76.

12. A. Sakharov, L. Milov, P. Zyryanov, and A. Bokhanov, History of Russia from the Beginning of the 18th Century until the End of the 19th Century (Moscow: AST, 2001).

13. N. Flerovsky, The Working Class Condition in Russia (St. Petersburg, 1869).

14. Rabocheye Dvizhenie v Rossii v XIX veke , vol. 2, Part 2, 302–3.

15. K 150-letiyu firmy “Petra Smirnova Synovya,” 10–11.

16 Moskovskiy fabrichniy okrug. Otchyot za 1884 g.fabrichnogo inspektora moskovskogo okruga professora I. I. Yanzhula. St. Petersburg 1886. Appendices, Tables 1, 7, 9.

17. “K 150-letiyu firmy “Petra Smirnova Synovya” (Iz vospominaniy i rasskazov moyego pokoynogo muzha V. P. Smirnova, umershago v 1934 godu)” Rodniye perezvony, #202, 1969, Bruzzels, 10.

18. Ibid., 11–12.

1. Edvard Radzinskiy, Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar (New York: Free Press, 2005), xi.

2. Ibid., 410.

3. Ibid., 426.

4. Otchyot o vserossiyskoy vystavke 1882 goda v Moskve pod redaktsiyey V. P. Bezobrazova (St. Petersburg: V. Bezobrazov i kompaniya, 1883), vol. 3, class 44 (Napitki), 17.

5. William E. Johnson, The Liquor Problem in Russia (Westerville, OH: The American Issue Publishing Co., 1915), 142.