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6. R. E. F. Smith and David Christian, Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 304.

7. Ibid., 301.

8. Vestnik Yevropy, Piteynoye delo i kabatskiy vopros v Rossii (St. Petersburg, Sept. 1876), book 9, 215.

9. Trudy syezda Vinokurennyh zavodchikov i spirtopromyshlennikov, sostoyavshegosya v Moskve v iyune 1892 goda , vol. 2 Prilozheniya (St. Petersburg: V. Kirschbaum, 1893), 312.

10. Otchyot o vserossiyskoy vystavke 1882 goda v Moskve, vol. 3, Class 37, 21.

11. Novoe Russkoye Slovo , #16346, Mar. 30, 1958, 7.

12. Moscow Gazette , Dec. 25, 1882.

13. Russkiy Courier , 1885, #179, 4.

14. Novosti Dnya , 1885, #37, 4.

15. Ibid., 1884, #300, 4.

16. Ibid., 4.

17. Trudy syezda , vol. 2, app., 317.

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

19. Oskolki , #15, April 14, 1884, 5.

20. Mezhdunarodniy istoricheskiy zhurnal, #7 ( January/February, 2000), (Pervaya monografiya: N. Kh. Bunge: sudba reformatora. Glava III: Ministr-liberal, 3. Kosvenniye nalogi i gerboviye sbory, http://history.machaon.ru/all/number_07/pervajmo/bunge/part3/p3/index.html.

21. Smith and Christian, Bread and Salt , 309.

1. RSHA, Fund 472, Inv. 38 (415/1935), Case 42. 1.

2. Ibid., 2.

3. CHAM, Fund 16, Inv. 27, Case 905.

4. Vladimir Smirnov’s memoirs.

5. CHAM, Fund 149, Inv. 1, Case 17, 7–8, 21

6. RSHA, Case 472, Inv. 38 (415/1935), Case 42, 5–6.

7. Moskovskiy Listok , #352, 1886.

1. Ukazatel fabrik i zavodov Yevropeyskoy Rossii i Tsarstva Polskogo. Sostavil po ofitsialnym svedeniyam departamenta torgovli i manufaktur P.A. Orlov. Izdaniye vtoroye, ispravlennoye i znachitelno dopolnennoye (St. Petersburg: R. Golike’s Publishing House, 1887), 563.

2. Istoriya predprinimatelstva v Rossii. Online source: http://www.rus-lib.ru/book/35/52/343-416.html.

3. Alkogolism i borba s nim. Osoboye prilozheniye k Trudam komissii po voprosu alkogolizma, pod redaktsiyey M. N. Nizhegorodtseva , #1, Izdaniye obschestva “Rossiyskogo obschestva okhraneniya narodnogo zdraviya” (St. Petersburg: P. P. Soykin’s publishing house, 1909), 49.

4. Patricia Herlihy, The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 113–14.

5. Alkogolism i borba s nim , 58.

6. Boris M. Segal, Russian Drinking: Use and Abuse of Alcohol in Pre-Revolutionary Russia (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies. 1987), 158.

7. CHAM, Fund 3, Inv. 3, Case 419.

8. RSHA, Fund 472, Inv. 23 (253/1269), Case 9, 29–36 (2)

9. Novoye Russkoye Slovo, Mar. 30, 1958, 5.

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

11. G. N. Ulyanova, Blagotvoritelnost moskovskih predprinimateley: 1860–1914 gg (Moscow: Izdatelstvo obyedineniya “Mosgorarhiv,” 1999), 164.

12. Kratkaya Yevreyskaya Entsiklopedia , vol. 5, Kolonki 472–83.

13. M. I. Fridman, Vinnaya Monopoliya v Rossii (Moscow: Obschestvo kuptsov i promyshlennikov Rossii, 2005), 159.

14. Ibid., 152.

15. Trudy syezda Vinokurennyh zavodchikov i spirtopromyshlennikov (St. Petersburg: V. Kirshbaum, 1893), vol. 2, 314.

16. Perviy godovoy otchyot Moskovskoy gorodskoy sanitarnoy stantsii pri Gigiyenicheskom Institute Imperatorskogo Moskovskogo universiteta. Mar. 1891–May 1892, Pod redaktsiyey F. F. Erismana (Moscow: Gorodskaya tipografiya, 1892), 79.

17. Trudy syezda, vol. 2, app., 318.

18. Ibid.

19. Fridman, Vinnaya Monopoliya , 144.

20. Ibid., 145.

21. Otechestvennaya istoriya , #4 (Moscow: Nauka, 1993), 111.

22. Orlando Figes, A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution (New York: Penguin Books, 1997), 160.

1. Constantine Pleshakov, The Tsar’s Last Armada: The Epic Journey to the Battle of Tsushima (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 14.

2. Russkiy rubl. Dva veka istorii. XIX–XX vv (Moscow: Progress-Akademiya, 1994), 116–17, Russian State Archives of Literature and Art, Fund 1208, Inv. 24, 1–4.

3. Theodore H. Von Laue, Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963), 50.

4. Sidney Harcave, The Memoirs of Count Witte (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe Inc., 1990), 187.

5. William E. Johnson, The Liquor Problem in Russia (Westerville, OH: The American Issue Publishing Co., 1915), 120.

6. L. I. Zaitseva, Chast I: Kazyonnaya vinnaya monopoliya (1894–1914)/S. Yu. Witte i Rossiya (Moscow: institut economiki RAN, 2000), 36–37.

7. K. V. Smirnova, G. V. Chinyaeva, V. O. Smirnov, M. I. Gogolashvili, Vodochniy korol Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov i yego potomki (Moscow: OAO Izdatelstvo “Raduga”, 1999), 24; letter from Feb. 6, 1896.

8. CHAM, Fund 16, Inv. 235, Case 4361.

9. Spravochnaya kniga o litsah Sankt-Peterburgskogo kupechestva i drugih zvaniy na 1894 god, St. Petersburg, 1895, “2-aya guildiya,” 549; Adresnaya kniga g. Sankt-Peterburga na 1893 god, Dept. 3, 256; na 1895 god, Dept. 2, col. 1268; Dept. 3, 372; Ves Petersburg na 1894 god, St. Petersburg, A. S. Suvorin, Dept. 3, 217.

10. Russian State Archives of Ancient Acts, Fund 1468, Inv. 1, Case 496, #57.

11. Power of Attorney from Smirnov to Pyotr Petrovich, from Oleg Smirnov’s research, PSC009149.

12. L. Ye. Shepelev, Aktsionerniye companii v Rossii (Leningrad: Nauka, 1973) 134–35.

13. CSAM, Fund 16, Inv. 237, Case 19, 47.

14. Vladimir Smirnov’s memoirs.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid.

19. Index of Russia exhibitors at the exhibition, Vsemirnaya kolumbova vystavka 1893 goda v Chicago. Ukazatel russkogo otdela (St. Petersburg: Yevdokimov, 1893), 52.

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

21. Moskovskiy Listok , Oct. 17, 1894, 2, col. 4.

22. New York Times , Nov. 4, 1894. 1.

23. Harcave, Memoirs of Count Witte, 213.

24. R. E. F. Smith and David Christian, Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 315.

25. Prilozheniye k otchetu glavnogo upravleniya neokladnyh sborov i kazyonnoy prodazhi pitey za 1895 god (St. Petersburg: Yevdokimov, 1897), 155.

26. Johnson, Liquor Problem in Russia , 120.

27. David Christian, Living Water: Vodka and Russian Society on the Eve of Emancipation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 381.

28. Patricia Herlihy, The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 15.

29. Vserossiyskaya khudozhestvenno-promyshlennaya vystavka 1896 goda v Nizhnem Novgorode (St. Petersburg: German Goppe, 1896), 199.

30. Zaitseva, Chast I: Kazyonnaya vinnaya monopoliya, 57–59.

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