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5. New York Times , July 25, 1915.

6. Patricia Herlihy, The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 67.

7. Spisok fabrik i zavodov Rossiyskoy Imperii so vklyucheniyem Sibiri, Sredney Azii i Kavkaza. Sostavleno po ofitsialnym svedeniyam otdela Promyshlennosti Ministerstva Torgovil i Promyshlennosti pod red. V. E. Varzara (St. Petersburg: V. Kirschbaum, 1912), Part 2, 92.

8. Document #EC 000711, from the Smirnoff Vodka Archive at Harvard University’s Davis Center Collection in the Fung Library.

9. Robert Goldston, The Russian Revolution (New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1966), 92.

10. Boris M. Segal, Russian Drinking: Use and Abuse of Alcohol in Pre-Revolutionary Russia , (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies. 1987), 120.

11. Werstein, Ten Days in November, 128–29.

12. Moskovskiy Listok , Oct. 30, 1915, 3.

13. Werstein, Ten Days in November, 122.

14. E. Radzinskiy, Stalin (Moscow: AST, 2006), 99.

15. Werstein, Ten Days in November, 156.

16. Vladimir Smirnov’s memoirs.

1. J. N. Westwood, Russia 1917–1964: A History of Modern Russia from the 1917 Revolution to the Fall of Krushchev (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), 51.

2. Testimony, Boris Aleksandrovich Smirnoff, Feb. 12, 1998, 160.

3. Kate Transchel, Under the Influence: Working-class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895–1932 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), 75.

4. “Nesvoyevremenniye mysli. Zametki o russkoy revolyutsii i culture,” http://antology.igrunov.ru/authors/gorky/mysli.html.

5. Testimony, Boris Aleksandrovich Smirnoff, Feb. 11, 1998, 123.

6. K. V. Smirnova, G. V. Chinyaeva, V. O. Smirnov, and M. I. Gogolashvili, Vodochniy korol Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov i yego potomki (Moscow: OAO Izdatelstvo “Raduga,” 1999), 159.

7. Orlando Figes, Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2002), 437.

8. Document #TH001151, translation from the Smirnoff Vodka Archive at Harvard University’s Davis Center Collection in the Fung Library.

9. James L. West and Iurri Petrov, Merchant Moscow: Images of Russia’s Vanished Bourgeoisie (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998), 176.

10. Testimony, Boris Aleksandrovich Smirnoff, Feb. 12, 1998, 161–63.

11. Vladimir Smirnov’s memoirs.

12. Izvestiya , Sept. 4, 1918.

13. Vladimir Smirnov’s memoirs.

14. Ibid.

15. Orlando Figes, “ A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution ,” (New York: Viking, 1996), 645.

16. State Archives of the Russian Federation, P-470, Inv. 1, Case 1, 19–20.

17. Krasniy terror v gody grazhdanskoy voiny. Po materialam Osoboy sledstvennoy komissii po rassledovaniyu zlodeyaniy bolshevikov. Delo #1. Osobaya komissiya po rassledovaniyu zlodeyaniy bolshevikov, sostoyaschaya pri glavnokomanduyuschem vooruzhennimy silami na Yuge Rossii. Akt rassledovaniya po delu ob areste i ubiystve zalozhnikov v Pyatigorske v oktyabre 1918 goda. Pod red. Doktorov istoricheskih nauk Yu. G. Feltishinskogo i G.I. Chernyavskogo, State Archives of the Russian Federation, P-470, Inv. 1, Case 2, 230–32.

18. Ibid.

19. Figes, People’s Tragedy, 648.

20. A. G. Shkuro, Zapiski belogo partizana , ch. 19, http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/shkuro_ag/19.html.

21. Westwood, Russia 1917–1964 , 51.

1. Letter to the editor, New York Times , Sept. 23, 1921.

2. Document and translation from the Smirnoff Vodka Archive at Harvard University’s Davis Center Collection in the Fung Library.

3. P. P. Isheyev. Oskolki proshlogo , Vospominaniya 1889–1959, 139.

4. Ibid., 140.

5. Ibid.

6. K. V. Smirnova et al., Vodochniy korol Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov i yego potomki (Moscow: OAO Izdatelstvo “Raduga”), 77.

7. Documents #PSC009001, PSC009008 from research by Oleg Smirnov.

8. K. V. Smirnova et al., Vodochniy korol Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov i yego potomki (Moscow: OAO Izdatelstvo “Raduga”), 134.

9. K. K. Parchevskiy, Po russkim uglam (Moscow: Nasledniki K. K. Parchevskogo. Institut vseobschey istorii RAN, 2002), 176.

10. Vladimir Smirnov’s memoirs.

11. Ibid.

12. Testimony, Boris Aleksandrovich Smirnoff, Feb. 11, 1998, 122.

13. Ibid., 91.

14. Ibid., Feb. 12, 1998, 180.

1. Vladimir Smirnov’s memoirs.

2. K. V. Smirnova et al., Vodochniy korol Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov i yego potomki (Moscow: OAO Izdatelstvo “Raduga”), 204–5.

3. Posledniye Novosti, Paris, Dec. 10, 1933, 6.

4. Ibid., Dec. 24, 1933, 5.

5. Obituary of Rudolph P. Kunett, New York Times , May 6, 1979; “Rudolph Kunett of Heublein Dies,” Hartford Courant , May 5, 1979.

6. Richard Lemon, “The Talk of the Town,” New Yorker , Sept. 24, 1955.

7. Agreement between Vladimir Smirnov and Rudolph Kunett, Aug. 21, 1933, 1, Exhibit E from the Smirnoff Vodka Archive at Harvard University’s Davis Center Collection in the Fung Library.

8. “Russian Vodka Now Made Here,” Danbury News-Times , Apr. 19, 1934.

9. Advertisement obtained from the Smirnoff Vodka Archive at Harvard University.

10. K. V. Smirnova et al., Vodochniy korol , 202–3.

11. “Russian Vodka Now Made Here,” Danbury News-Times , Apr. 19, 1934.

12. K. V. Smirnova et al., Vodochniy korol , 204–5.

13. Ibid.

1. http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/159590/Superbrands-case-studies-Smirnoff.

2. “Smirnoff White Whiskey—No Smell, No Taste,” New York Times , Feb. 19, 1995.

3. Ibid.

4. John Martin, interview, Smirnoff Heritage Video, n.d.

5. Richard Lemon, “Little Water,” New Yorker , Sept. 24, 1955.

6. http://www.diageo.com/en-row/ourbrands/ourglobalbrands/smirnoff, Impact Databank Mar. 2007, ranking of leading premium spirits brands.

7. Millward Brown’s Top 100 Most Powerful Brands 2008, 23, http://www.millwardbrown.com/Sites/optimor/Media/Pdfs/en/BrandZ/BrandZ-2008-Report.pdf.

8. Resolution on the presenting charges against Smirnov Vladimir Vladimirovich, Sept. 18, 1941, in Moscow.

9. Protest in the case of V. V. Smirnov, Aug. 31, 1956.

10. K. V. Smirnova et al., Vodochniy korol Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov i yego potomki (Moscow: OAO Izdatelstvo “Raduga”), 128.

11. Testimony, Boris Aleksandrovich Smirnov, February 12, 1998, 194.

12. N. A. Filatkina, Pokolennaya rospis moskovskoy vetvi Alekseya Fyodorovicha Bakhrushina (Moscow: 1997), 262.

13. Stephen White, Russia Goes Dry: Alcohol, State, and Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 71.

14. Ibid., 140.

15. Thomas C. Owen, Russian Corporate Capitalism from Peter the Great to Perestroika (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 84.

16. K. V. Smirnova et al., Vodochniy korol , 155.

17. A. Sokovnin, “Konflikt vokrug tovarnogo znaka Smirnoff,” Kommersant , #49 (517), Mar. 19, 1994, http://kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?fromsearch=dfae45ba-5df9-45f6-ad94-51b2c302aae9&docsid=73940.

18. Delovaya pressa 8, May 20, 1999, http://www.businesspress.ru/newspaper/article_mId_44_aId_17227.html.

19. Decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in the matter of The Joint Stock Society, “Trade House of Descendants of Peter Smirnoff, Official Purveyor to the Imperial Court” and the Russian American Spirits Co. v. UDV North America, Inc. and Pierre Smirnoff Company, Sept. 14, 2001.