branding, xxvi, 69, 109, 118, 122, 322–23, 328–30
Bulgaria, 306–8, 309
Bunin, Ivan, 301
Buryshkin, Pavel, 52, 101
Cast Iron Bridge mansion, xviii, 59–60, 102, 134, 192, 197, 205, 207, 220, 228, 278
Smirnov great-great grandson’s lease of, 336
Soviets’ use of, 319–20
Centennial Exhibition (Philadelphia, 1876), 103–4, 128, 130
Central Bureau of Wine and
Beer Industry and Trade, 249, 251, 254, 265, 266–67
Cheka, 289, 290, 296–99
Chekhov, Anton, 38, 132, 136, 152, 209, 258, 286
on vodka wars, xxvi, 111, 123–26
Chelyshev, Mikhail, 258–59
Chertova, Varvara, 96–97
Chetverikov, Sergey, 292
Christian, David, 54
Christian Orthodoxy. See Russian Orthodox Church
class structure
blurring of lines in, 138
Bolshevik dismantling of, 287, 290–92
drinking tastes and, 78–80
education and, 97
guilds and, 37, 40, 44, 73
interclass marriage and, 28–30, 38–39
resentments and, 105–6, 114, 204, 239–41
table of ranks and, 72, 73
World War I and, 281–82
cognacs, xxviii, 77, 215, 249, 260, 265
Commission on the Struggle
Against Drunkenness, 248, 264
Constantinople, 301–2, 303–6
copyrights, 69, 119, 336
Crimean War, 31–32, 41, 113, 140, 235, 333
Deprés, Kamill, 64
Diageo, 329n, 335, 336, 337
Distillers’ Congress, 123, 148–49, 150
Dmitriy Pavlovich, Grand Duke, 310
Dostoevskiy, Fyodor, xxv, 38, 61, 114
Dreyfus, Alfred, xix–xx
Dr. No (movie), 329
drunkenness, xxii, 54, 289–90
binge drinking and, 126, 142
crime and, 140–41, 276–77
decline in, 276
literary portrayals of, xxv
popular dislike of, 258
of Russian soldiers, 276, 277, 279–80
state vodka monopoly and, 168, 170, 217–18, 248, 273–74
See also anti-alcohol movement
Duma, 159, 245–46, 248, 249, 250, 258, 272–75, 281
emancipation of serfs. See under serfs
Emancipation Proclamation (U.S.), 113
Erisman, Fyodor F., 149, 150
Erisman Research Institute of Hygiene, 319–20
Fabergé, Peter Carl, 63, 104, 130–31, 160
flavored vodkas, 58–59, 77, 92
dangerous additives to, 148–49
as prohibition-exempt, 278
promotion of, 249
Smirnov line of, 58–59, 98–100, 170, 174, 175, 265, 268
state tax on, 168–69
watering down of, 117, 123
Floyd, David, 204
France, 126, 140, 203, 305
Russian émigrés in, 310–24
Russian status symbols and, 64
Freeze, Gregory, 204
Fridman, Mikhail, 147
Gapon, Father Georgiy, 238
Gertsen, Aleksander, 6
Gilyarovskiy, Vladimir, 75
Gogol, Nikolay, 38
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 333–35
Gorbachevskiy, Stepan, 63
Gorkiy, Maxim, 173, 238, 290, 299
grape wines. See wines
Great Reforms (1861–74), 106
impact of, 51–52, 54–56, 60–61, 101–2, 113–14, 120, 123
impetus for, 32, 113, 235
retraction of, 115–16, 127–28
See also serfs, emancipation of
guilds, 37, 40, 44, 52, 73, 130
Heublein, 327–28, 329, 333, 335
inns. See taverns
International Distillers and
Vintners, 335–36
international exhibitions, 80, 81–92, 103–4, 116, 118, 128, 130, 131, 165–66, 172–78
Isheyev, Pyotr, 305, 306–7, 316
Japan. See Russo-Japanese war
Jews, xix, xx, 3, 23, 38, 44, 144–45, 233
Katya (gypsy singer), 162, 163, 164–65, 209
Kokovtsov, Vladimir, 237, 273, 294
Komissarov, Mikhail, 180
Konovalov family, 56, 57, 191
Kotelnikov, M. G., 147
Kouvaldin, Vasiliy, 206
Kshesinskaya, Mathilde, 294
Kunett, Rudolph P., 320–24, 325, 327, 330, 332
Kunettchenskiy family, 320
Kuzminskiy, Aleksander, 169
Lenin, Vladimir, 74, 155, 169, 232–33, 242, 283–84, 285, 299
death of, 309
exile of, 188
takeover by, 287–88, 289, 291, 292, 293, 295
Lermontov, Mikhail, 286
London International Exhibition (1862), 82
Loris-Melikov, Count, 114
Lvov, 308, 309
Mamontov family, 176
Martin, John, 327–28
martini cocktail, 329
Mekhedinskaya, Alfonsina
Frantsevna, 313
Mendeleyev, Dmitriy, 166, 173
merchants
Bolshevik takeover and, 291–92
as churchwardens, 144, 166
ex-serfs as, 56–57, 62, 191
guilds and, 37, 40, 44
highest distinction for, 143
importance of heirs to, 61, 135, 189–90
as insurgents’ target, 239–42
mistrust of, 37–38
philanthropy expected from, 70–71, 96, 143
power and influence of, 101–2, 138, 176–77
procedure to become, 35–36, 39–44
rise in status of, 52
Merchants’ Club, 102
monopoly. See State Vodka
Monopoly moonshine, 12, 26, 118, 216–17, 281, 334
Morgan, Jack, 328–29
Morozov, Arseniy Ivanovich, 292
Morozov, Ivan, 227
Morozov family, 56, 57, 62, 101, 107–8, 176
Moscow, 16, 17–22, 38, 45–46, 144–45, 166
immigrant serfs in, 14, 41
liquor industry and, 24–25, 99–100
merchants’ power in, 101
modernization of, 51–52, 60–61
rigid laws in, 22–23, 24
strikes and violence in, 239
vodka monopoly in, 208, 214
Moscow City Society, 40–44, 52
Moscow Committee on Beggars, 71–72, 132–33, 145, 189
Moscow Court Primary College, 143
Moscow English Club, 79–80
Moscow Exchange Committee, 189, 190
Moscow Merchants Society, 40, 44, 70–71, 130, 189
Moscow Mule (cocktail), 329
Moscow Soviet of Peasant and Working Deputies, 291
Moscow State Chamber, 39–40, 41
Moscow University, 148
Narodnichestvo movement, 105–6
nastoykas. See flavored vodkas
Nice, 311–24, 338
Nikitina, Aleksandra, 210, 228, 231, 257–58
Nikitina, Mariya, 210
Nikolayevna (patronymic name), Yelizaveta, 252
Nikolay I, Tsar, 1, 2, 4, 32
Nikolay II, Tsar, 167–68, 170, 172, 175–78, 187–88, 209
abdication of, 283
execution of, 289
prohibition and, 276
public unrest and, 218, 219–20, 235, 237–38, 272–74
reforms of, 245–46
repressive edicts of, 188, 218, 250, 272
state vodka monopoly and, 217–18, 248, 273–74
Witte’s dismissal by, 233–34
World War I and, 27–81, 275
Nizhniy Novgorod fairs, 171–78, 179, 180, 184, 215–16, 220
Nobel, Ludwig, 104
nobility, 26, 38, 45, 71, 114, 139, 143, 177
/> liquor tastes of, 78–80, 87, 118, 120
October Manifesto (1905), 245–46
Okhrana, 281, 283
Ostrovskiy, Aleksander, 37–38
Panina, Varya, 209
Paris, 310–11
World’s Fairs, 82, 104, 128
Pasternak, Boris, 134
peasants, 114, 144, 204, 233
famine and, 151–52 1905
revolt by, 239
radicals and, 105–6
sobriety campaign and, 155, 237
See also serfs
Perlov family, 73
Perov, Vasily, 83
Peter the Great, xxi, 11, 28, 143, 280, 283
Petrograd. See St. Petersburg
Piontkovskaya, Valentina, 270, 272, 279, 322
Bolshevik takeover and, 286, 293, 294–306
breakup with Vladimir by, 307–8, 309, 312
Vladimir’s love for, 255–57, 259, 307–8, 313, 314
Plekhanov Institute, 319, 331
Pleve, Vyacheslav, 218
Pol, Andrey Andreyevich, 192
Popov, A. S., 173
Popova (vodka distiller), 122
Popov vodka, xxv, 64, 125, 150, 206, 266
Potapovo cathedral, 185, 186
prohibition (Russia), 263, 274, 283, 301, 320
ending of, 308
initiation of, 218, 276–77
loopholes in, 278, 281
prohibition (U.S.), 320, 321, 322
pubs, xxii, xxvi, 25n, 27, 54, 76–77, 128n
Pushkin, Aleksander, 2–3, 40, 72, 286
Putin, Vladimir, 338
Rasputin, Grigoriy, 272–73, 280, 310
Rastorguyev, Pyotr, 180
Repin, Ilya, xxvii, 83, 114
revolutionaries, 105–6, 111, 116, 204, 252, 272, 281–85
Lenin’s program and, 232–33, 284
liquor boycotts and, 237
repression of, 188, 218, 250
See also Bolshevik Revolution
revolution of 1905, 239–41, 245, 250, 252, 258, 270
Rouget, Emile, 64
Rubinstein, Nikolay, 61
Russian American Spirits Company, 336
Russian Factory and Plant
Workers Union, 238
Russian Orthodox Church, xxii, 6, 143–44, 145, 155, 166–67, 184–85, 186, 219, 311
anti-alcohol laws and, 24–25
death rituals and, xxiv, 87, 88, 90
holiest site of, 19–20
merchant status and, 27, 35–36, 44
philanthropy and, 70–71, 251
Russo-Japanese War, 235–36, 237, 242, 276
Ryabushinskiy family, 73, 101, 176, 310
St. John the Baptist Church, xviii, xxiii–xxiv, 49, 61, 189
St. Petersburg, 3–4, 14, 24, 118, 124, 131, 144, 264, 310
arts scene in, 60–61
Bolshevik takeover of, 285–86, 289–90
prohibition and, 277
renamed Leningrad, 309
renamed Petrograd, 275–76
Smirnov operations in, 157–58
unrest and riots in, 237–38, 269–70, 272, 281–85
Vladimir’s new life in, 254–60
vodka monopoly and, 170, 206
serfs emancipation of, 32–33, 51, 54, 55, 71–72, 113, 114, 138, 235
self-made moguls as former, 56–57, 191
self-ransom of, xxii, 8, 9, 11, 14
Smirnov’s background as, xix, xx, 5, 56
status and life of, xix, xx, 5–9, 14, 17, 29
vodka boycott by, 46–47
Sergey Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke, 239
Sergiyev Posad, 19–20
Shards (magazine), xxvi, 124–26
Shchukin, Pyotr, 101
Shchukin, Sergey, 102, 310
Shekhobalov, Aleksey, 57
Shekhtel, Fyodor, 207
Sheremetev, Dmitriy, 30
Sheremetev, Nikolay, 28–30
Shkuro, Andrey, 300
Shtriter, Aleksander, 64, 68, 122
Shukhov, Vladimir, 173
Shustov vodka, xxv, 124, 267, 268
Sipyagin, Dmitriy, 218
Skripitsyn family, 7
Skriptisyn, Mikhail, 9–10
Smirnoff vodka, 309, 313, 316, 318–25
annual sales of, 330
label of, 322, 323, 333, 336
Smirnov descendants and, 332–33, 335–37
U.S. rights to, 321–24, 327–30
Smirnov, Aleksey Petrovich (son), xxix, 192, 207–8, 220, 232, 252–53, 278, 301, 335
Bolshevik regime and, 290
death of, 308
guardian of, 209, 223–24
Smirnov, Andrey, 336, 337
Smirnov, Arseniy (father), 7–8, 11–16, 27–28, 58, 68, 88, 91
death of, 104–5
merchant license and, 35–36, 39–44, 47–50, 52, 53
religious icon of, 143–44
self-ransom of, 33
Smirnov, Arseniy Petrovich (Pyotr Petrovich’s son), 265, 266, 267, 268–69, 279, 330
Smirnov, Boris (Aleksey’s great-grandson), 86, 335–37
Smirnov, Boris (Pyotr Petrovich’s grandson), 288, 290, 293, 314, 315, 332, 336
Smirnov, Dmitriy Venediktovich (cousin), 206, 228–29, 230
Smirnov, Grigoriy (uncle), 9–15, 26, 43, 61, 86
Smirnov, Ivan (uncle), 14, 16, 22–27, 36, 43, 48, 68, 73, 82, 90, 91, 93
Smirnov, Nikolay Petrovich (son), xxiv, 135, 221
birth of, 86–87
Bolshevik takeover and, 301, 308–9
father’s will and, 192, 197, 208n, 219–20
guardianship of, 229–30, 253–54, 279
lifestyle of, xxix, 207, 209–10, 255–60
marriages of, 190, 208, 226, 253–54
problems of, 160–61, 207, 225–30, 232, 243–44
Smirnov business and, 190, 205–6, 223–24, 225, 244, 322, 332
Smirnov, Nikolay Venediktovich (cousin), 61, 160, 197, 206, 230, 253
Smirnov, Oleg (Sergey’s son), 211, 252, 277, 332, 333, 335
Smirnov, Pyotr (Arseniy Petrovich’s son), 330
Smirnov, Pyotr Arsenievich achievements of, xxiii, 129–32, 178
aging of, 156–57, 191
ambition of, 14–15, 27, 56–57, 62–65
aristocratic lifestyle of, 102
awards and honors of, xxiii, 72, 92, 103–4, 128, 129, 130, 131–32, 143, 159, 175, 187, 251, 266
background of, xix, xx, xxii, 5–6, 7
birth and youth of, xx, xxii, 4–6, 11–22, 56
business instincts of, xxii–xxiii, xxvi, 13, 59–61, 69–70, 74–78, 159–60, 163–64
children of. See specific names
commemorations of, 196–97
death and funeral of, xvii–xix, xxiii–xxiv, xxix, 49, 195–97, 204
deaths in family and, 30, 48–49, 78, 87–91, 104–5
first wine cellar of, 49–50
icon collection of, xxii, 143–44, 295
image cultivation by, 50, 70–71, 73, 79, 142–43
legacy of, 179, 192, 325
mansion of. See Cast Iron
Bridge mansion merchant license of, 52
move to Moscow by, 17–31
personal traits of, xx, 25, 27, 36, 61, 71, 88, 102, 142, 158
philanthropies of, 70–72, 90, 96, 128, 132–33, 143, 166–67, 179, 180, 189
Purveyor to the Court title and, xxiii, 62–65, 68, 70, 128, 129–36, 142, 159–60, 175, 187–88, 267, 336
religious devotion of, xxii, xxiv, 6, 49, 61, 142, 143–44, 145, 166–67, 184–85
respectability of, xix, xxviii, 50, 67–68, 102, 106, 126
social unrest and, 106–8
surname acquired by, 6
vodka empire of. See Smirnov
Trading House wealth of, xxii–xxiii, 78, 93, 129, 159–60, 191–92, 197, 220
will and estate of, xxviii–xxix, 191–93, 196–97, 208n
wives of. See specific names
Smirnov, Pyotr Petrovic
h (son), xxiv, 184, 225, 278
birth of, 61–62
brother Nikolay and, 227–29, 230, 243–44, 254
brother Sergey and, 209, 221, 222–23, 251
brother Vladimir and, 244–45
business mind of, xxix, 134, 145, 247, 248–51, 259–60
death of, 261–64
as father’s successor, 145, 157–59, 160, 189–90, 205–6, 223–24, 225
father’s will and, 192, 197, 208n, 219–20
lavish lifestyle of, 207
marriage of, 158
sole control of business by, 244–45, 315, 333
Smirnov, Sergey Petrovich (son), xxix, 52, 192, 207–8, 211, 232
break from family of, 220–23, 251–52
death of, 252, 253
guardian of, 209, 221
Smirnov, Venedikt (uncle), 18–22
Smirnov, Viktor (Sergey’s son), 211, 252, 277, 335
Smirnov, Vladimir (Vladimir’s son), 210, 231, 301, 309
custody of, 257–58, 270–72
life in Soviet Russia of, 319–20, 330–31
Smirnov, Vladimir Petrovich (son), xxiv, 161–65, 254–60, 269–72, 301–25
birth of, 102–3
Bolshevik takeover and, 286, 287, 293, 294–98
brother Nikolay and, 226–28, 243–44, 254, 308–9
brother Pyotr and, 244–45
brother Sergey and, 221, 222–23
death of, 324–25
as émigré in Nice, 311–16, 317–25
escape from Russia by, 301–2, 303–10
father’s will and, 197, 208n, 219–20
lifestyle of, xxix, 161–65, 207, 209, 210, 226, 228, 231, 239–44, 255, 256, 258, 270, 279
love for Valentina of, 255–57, 259, 307–8, 313, 314
marriages of, 190, 208, 230–33, 257–58, 312–16
memoirs of. See under
Smirnova-Maksheyeva, Tatiana personality of, 135, 160, 161
Smirnov brand revival by, 306–9, 315, 316, 317, 318–25, 333, 336
Smirnov business and, 190, 206, 215–16, 223–24, 225, 244–45
tombstone for, 338
Smirnov, Yakov (brother), 6, 11–12, 13–14, 16, 22, 36
Smirnova, Aleksandra (daughter), 48–49, 158, 176, 179–86, 191, 210–11, 261, 277
family property and, 219–20
fate in Soviet Russia of, 331
Smirnova, Aleksandra (Vladimir’s second wife), 210, 220, 238, 257–58, 270–72, 301, 309, 321
Smirnova, Anna (daughter), 78
Smirnova, Darya Nikolayevna (Nikolay’s first wife), 190, 226
Smirnova, Eugeniya Ilyinichna (Pyotr Petrovich’s wife), 261, 288, 290, 292–93
affair and marriage of, 158
death of, 331–32
as émigré in Nice, 314–16
Smirnov company ownership and, 245, 264–69, 278–79, 336
Smirnova, Glafira (daughter), 180
Smirnova, Kira (Vladimir’s granddaughter), 163
Smirnova, Mariya (daughter), 192
marriages of, 180
Smirnova, Mariya Gavrilovna (Vladimir’s first wife), 190, 209, 230–33
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