Advertisements, (i), (ii), (iii); television, (i), (ii), (iii); Advertising Standards Authority, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Alanbrooke, Viscount, see Brooke, Alan
Alcoholics, rehab clinics, (i), (ii), (iii); punitive measures by Poland, (i)
Alcopops, (i)
Alexander II (r. 1855–1881), law reform and Smirnov, (i); assassinated, (i)
Alexander III (r. 1881–1894), proposes vodka law reform, (i)
Anglo-Russian News, (i)
Association of Peasant Teetotallers, (i)
Atholl, 10th Duke of (1931–1996), vodka and UK parliament, (i)
Baczewski, Polish distiller, (i)
Beer, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Bergholz, Friedrich Wilhelm (1699–1765), experience of vodka, (i)
Bloody Mary, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Bond, James, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Bottles, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Brandy, misnomer for vodka, (i), (ii)
Brezhnev, Leonid (1906–1982), (i)
Brodsky, Joseph (1940–1996), (i)
Brooke, Alan (1883–1963), drinks with Stalin, (i)
Brosnan, Pierce, (i)
Bucket, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Bukharin, Nikolai (1888–1938), (i)
Bulgakov, Mikhail (1891–1940), (i)
Bullitt, William (1891–1967), US Ambassador, (i)
Burton, Jocelyn, Dedalus Vodka Cup, back cover flap
Catherine II of Russia (r. 1762–1796), allows gentry to distil vodka, (i); gifts of vodka to Linnaeus and Voltaire, (i); improves vodka, (i); her rules for sobriety, (i)
Charcoal filtering, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Charka, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Chekhov, Anton (1860–1904), low view of Ukraine vodka, (i); The Siren’s Song, (i); Moscow students’ drinking, (i); gives vodka to peasants, (i); dies in Berlin, (i); The Marshal’s Widow, (i); An Inadvertence, (i); frequents the Maly Yaroslavets, (i)
Chelysev, Michael (1866–1915), and Nicholas II, (i); death head vodka label, (i)
Church of the Resurrection of Christ, (i)
Churchill, Winston (1874–1965), drinking challenge with Stalin, (i)
Clinton, Bill, hosts drunken Yeltsin, (i)
Code of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich, (i)
Coffey, Aeneas (1780–1852), inventor of column still, (i)
Constantine XI (1449-53), (i)
Contarini, Alvise (1597–1651), Venetian Ambassador, opinion of Russians, (i)
Corn brandy, (i)
Courtenay, Tom, performs Moscow-Petushki, (i)
Curative Labour Clinics, (i)
Danzig see Gdansk
Dedalus Vodka Cup, back cover flap
Donskoi Monastery, (i)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor (1821–1881), views on vodka, (i); The Devils and Pryzhov, (i)
Edelstyn, Daniel, (i)
Eisenstein, Sergei (1898–1948), (i)
Elisabeth I of Russia (r.1741–1762), allows gentry to distil vodka, (i); vodka in official document, (i)
Erofeev, Benedict (1938–1990), Moscow-Petushki, (i)
Esenin, Sergei (1895–1925), Moscow Taverns, (i)
Estonia, (i)
Executioners, vodka as perquisite, (i)
Faulks, Sebastian, Devil May Care, (i)
Filtration, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
First All-Russian Congress on the Struggle against Drunkenness, (i)
Fleming, Ian (1908–1964), (i), (ii), (iii)
Fletcher, Giles (c. 1548–1611), (i)
Fruit vodkas, (i); specialities, (i); quality of, (i); during prohibition, (i); popularity in (i), (ii)
Galicia, vodka loving peasantry (i); border change, (i)
Guardianship of Public Sobriety, (i)
Gdansk, important vodka centre, (i)
Germany, Smirnoff unknown in East, (i)
Gilbey, W. A., licensed to make UK vodka by Smirnoff, (i); exploits UK vodka market, (i)
Gin, vodka ousts gin martini, (i)
Gelasimov, Andrei, Thirst, (i)
Gogol, Nicolai (1809–1852), (i), (ii)
Golovanov, Alexander, (1904–1975), (i)
Gorbachev, Mikhail, alcohol reform priority, (i); vodka jokes against, 79; vodka accelerates downfall, (i); bans films featuring vodka, (i)
Gorbachev, Yuri, (i)
Gordon, Patrick, (i)
Gorky, Maxim (1868–1936), (i)
Great Eagle Cup, (i)
Grieve, C. M. see Hugh MacDiarmid
Heineken, replaces vodka in Bond films, (i)
Heublein, G. F (1849–1937), (i)
Hooliganism, vodka engendered, (i)
Ignatieff, George (1913–1989), (i)
Inns, see taverns
Isidor, legendary creator of Russian vodka, (i)
Islington Agricultural Hall, (i)
Ivan III (r.1462–1505), (i),
Ivan IV The Terrible (r.1533–1584), establishes kabaks or tsar’s taverns, (i)
Ivanov, Ivan (1846–1869), murder of, (i)
Jessel, George (1898–1981) and Bloody Mary, (i)
Kabaks see Taverns
Kammerling, Alex, (i)
Kenworthy, Joseph (1886–1953), on vodka and Nicholas II, (i)
Khlebnikov, Ivan (1819–1881), (i)
Khrushchev, Nikita (1894–1971), intoxicates foreign guests, (i); drinks with John Wayne, (i)
Kingston, Elizabeth, Duchess of (1720–1788), English vodka distiller, (i)
Kohl, Johann Georg (1808–1878), describes his vodka experience, (i)
Kokovtsov, Vladimir (1843–1953), boosts vodka to finance war, (i)
Kremlin, (i), (ii); stamps converted to vodka, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Kovsch, (i)
Kunett, Rudolph (1893–1979), buys Smirnoff company, (i)
Kvass, (i)
Lenin,Vladimir (1870–1924), and vodka, (i); head frozen in ice, (i)
Leningrad see St. Petersburg
London, Brewer’s Exhibition (i); Peter I in, (i); drunkenness in, (i); vodka demand in, (i), (ii), (iii); new vodka companies in, (i)
Lowitz, Johann Tobias (1754–1804), (i)
Lumley, Joanna, (i)
Lyall, Robert (1789–1831), experience of vodka, (i)
MacDiarmid, Hugh, (i)
Marketing, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Mendeleev, Dmitri (1834–1907), sets standard of vodka, (i)
Merchants, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Mercury, Freddie (1946–1991), (i)
Miklouho-Maclai, Nicholas (1846–1888), upsets Tchaikovsky (i)
Molotov, Vyacheslav (1890–1986), cocktail, (i); Stalin writes to about vodka, (i)
Monopoly, (i), (ii); refinements, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Moonshine see Samogon
Morris, R. N, (i)
Moscow Khitrov Market, notorious slum (i); recruiting area by Smirnov, (i)
Moscow Soviet of Peasant And Working Deputies, (i)
Muir and Mirrielees, (i)
Moscow, dosshouses of, (i); vodka poured down streets, (i); earliest vodka distillation in, (i); becomes capital, (i); kabaks founded in, (i); vodka ceremony in, (i); Peter I’s contempt for, (i); bear serves vodka in, (i); religious festival, (i); scarcity of glass in (i); drunkenness in, (i); samogon in, (i); flats sold for vodka, (i); University of, (i), (ii)
Nalivka, condemned as slush (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Napoleon, (i)
Nastokya, (i)
Neat vodka, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Nechaev, Sergey (1847–1882), (i)
Nicholas II (r. 1894–1917), and vodka monopoly, (i); assembles duma, (i); and vodka prohibition, (i); and Rasputin, (i); dethroned by vodka, (i); coronation and Blood Cup, (i)
Olbracht, Jan (r. 1492–1501), myth of distillers’ rights, (i)
Olearius, Adam (1599–1671), and debauchery in taverns, (i)
Orthodox Church, vodka as devilish poison, (i); restrictions on clergy and alcohol, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Oskolki, (newspaper) (i)
Paris, lack of vodka in, (i)
Pearson, Lester (1897–1972), drinks with Krushchev, (i);
Peasants, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); tavern revolts, (i), (ii), (iii); give vodka to children, (i); attack taverns, (i); pay high tax, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); Tolstoy on, (i)
Pepsi Cola, (i)
Perov, Vasily (1834–1882), Easter Procession in a Village, (i); The Last Tavern at the City Gates, (i);
Peter I (r. 1682–1725), daily vodka consumption, (i); abandons guests on Kronstadt island, (i); contributes to vodka distillation, (i); makes vodka socially acceptable, (i); the “Great Eagle” cup, (i); St Petersburg, (i)
Petiot, Ferdnand (1900–1975), claim to creating Bloody Mary, (i); his recipe for, (i)
Petrograd see St. Petersburg
Poetry, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv);
Pokhlebkin,William (1923-2000), Soviet vodka historian murdered, (i)
Poland, vodka dispute, (i); medicinal use of vodka, (i); aristocracy distil vodka, (i); earliest record of vodka, (i);
Polugar, (i);
Pomoch, (i);
Premium distilled, (i)
Priestley, J. B. (1894–1984), (i), (ii), (iii)
Prohibition, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Pullman, Philip, His Dark Materials, (i)
Pushkin, Alexander (1799–1837), Peter the Great’s Blackamoor, (i)
Pryzhov, Ivan (1827–1885), reluctant murderer, (i); death in Siberia, (i); recruited by Nechaev, (i); influence on Dostoevsky, (i); character and books, (i)
Pyatakov, Georgy, (1890–1937), (i)
Raka, (i)
Ralston, W.R.S (1828–1889), visits women’s pubs, (i)
Rasputin, vodka consumption (i); murder and Secret Service, (i)
Rectification, (i)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844–1908), on Tchaikovsky’s drinking habits, (i)
Rogers, Will (1879–1935), (i)
Roth, Joseph (1894–1939), The Radeztsky March, (i)
Rouble, purchasing power, (i)
Russian aristocracy, distil vodka, (i); demand vodka during prohibition, (i), (ii)
Russian Imperial Chemical Laboratory, analysis of vodka, (i)
Russo-Japanese War, (i)
Russian revolutions, (i); vodka riots, (i); vodka poured in Neva, (i)
Ryan, William, (i)
Ryazan, taverns closed by peasants, (i)
Rykov A. V (1881–1938), weak vodka nicknamed after, (i)
Sala, George (1828–1895), loathes vodka, (i)
Saunders, Jennifer, (i)
Samogon, sold from street stalls, (i); as bartering tool, (i), (ii); penalities for distilling, (i); for home use, (i); poisoning by, (i)
Serov, Valentin (1865–1911), The Grand Eagle Cup, (i)
Shackleton, Lord (1911–1994), (i)
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906–1975), (i)
Simple wine, (i)
Simpson, Homer, (i)
Smirnov, Boris, recreates vodka (i); family opposition, (i); headquarters police stormed, (i)
Smirnov, Ivan (c1802–1873), uncle and rival of P. A. Smirnov, (i)
Smirnov, Pyotr Arsenijevic (1831–1898), (i); attacked by Chekhov, (i), (ii); pursuit of awards, (i), (ii); origins, (i); commercial flair, (i); appointed Imperial Court supplier, (i)
Smirnov, Vladimir Petrovich (1875–1934), reinvents recipe for Smirnoff, (i); death, (i)
Solomatkin, Leonid, (1837–1883), Morning at the Tavern, (i)
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr (1908-2008), (i)
Soviet Union, claims vodka invention, (i); Soviet Temperance art, (i)
Spirit of Geneva, (i)
St Petersburg, (i); Triumphant Osteria of The Four Frigates, (i), (ii); anniversary vodka, (i); dingy taverns of, (i); state monopoly enforced in, (i), (ii); vodka shops looted in, (i); drunken hooligans in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii)
Stalin, Joseph (1878–1953), on Peter I, (i); on vodka virtues, (i); drinking habits, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Stamp, Terence, (i)
Starling, Boris, (i)
Steinbeck, John (1902–1968), (i)
Stolichnaya, ration for the Red Army, (i); creation of, (i); distillery tasters, (i); enjoyed by Freddie Mercury, (i); in Licence to Kill, (i); in Absolutely Fabulous, (i)
Stolypin, Pyotr (1862–1911), drunken assassins and, (i); executes vodka robbers, (i); assassinated at Kiev, (i)
Stravinsky (1882–1971), fondness for vodka, (i)
Sweet vodka, see Nalivka and Nastoyka
Taverns, defined, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); tsar’s taverns, (i); visited by priests, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); state changes to (i); as community centre, (i); paintings of, (i), (ii); temperance tax, (i); closed during prohibition, (i); Tolstoy dreams of ending, (i); Dostoevsky’s scorn at, (i); Pryzhoz’s History of, (i), (ii); frequented by Mussorgsky, (i); proliferation of (i); Smirnov promotions in, (i)
Taxes, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)
Taxfarming, (i)
Temperance incentives, (i)
Temperance, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)
The All-Russian Alexander Nevsky Society of Sobriety, (i)
The Simpsons, (i)
Tolstoy, Leo (1828–1910), founds temperance society, (i); recounts murder details, (i); attacks Coronation of Nicholas II, (i); draws poison label for vodka, (i)
Tomsky, Mikhail (1880–1936), Soviet Trades’ Union Leader, (i)
Trifonov, Yury, on Pryzhov, (i)
Triple distilled, (i)
Turgenev, Ivan (1818–1883), (i), (ii)
The Union of the Godless, (i)
U.K, early vodka noted in (i); vodka sales, (i); popularity of vodka, (i)
U.S.A.,Stalin toasts, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); Sex and the City, (i); arrival of Smirnoff, (i)
Ukraine, capital moved from Kiev to Moscow, (i); Stolypin murdered at Kiev Opera, (i)
Ultra premium distilled, (i)
Union Against Drunkenness, (i)
Vasily II (r. 1425–1462), (i)
Vladimir I (r. 980–1015), (i)
Vodka, adulterated, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); as bribe, (i); as aftershave, (i); as payment for making coffins, (i)
Vodka bars, Red Square Bar USA, (i); Red Vodka Club UK, (i); Revolution UK, (i)
Vodka brands, Baczewski, (i); Bison, (i); Bison Grass, (i); Eristoff, (i); Finlandia, (i), (ii); Grey Goose Le Citron, (i); Ketel One Citroen, (i); Khlibna Sloza, (i); Koskenkorva, (i); Kristall, (i); Legend of Kremlin, (i); Popova, (i), (ii); Sacred Vodka, (i); Sipsmith, (i); Skyy, (i); Svedka, (i); Stolichnaya, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); Vyborova, (i); Wolfschmidt, (i), (ii), (iii); Wyborowa, (i); Zorokovich 1917, (i), (ii)
Vodka cocktails, Absolut Hunk, (i); Absolutely Fabulous, (i); Bee’s Knees, (i); Moscow Mule, (i), (ii); Tout-de-suite, (i); Tsarina, (i); Vodka Perfect, (i); Vodka Queen, (i); Volga, (i); see also Bloody Mary
Vodka, definition of, (i); distilleries, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); oldest in world, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); distillation, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi); illegal (i), (ii); see also Moonshine and Samogon drinking vessels, (i); in rural celebrations, (i), (ii), (iii); injected into turkey, (i); made from molasses, (i), (ii), (iii); potatoes, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); rye, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); sugar beet, (i); measures, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix); nicknames, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); purity of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); recipes, (i); et seq; rehab clinics for, (i), (ii); standardisation, (i), (ii); substitutes for, (i), (ii); superstition, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); tasting, (i), (ii), (iii); et seq; temperature, (i), (ii), (iii); toasts, (i); traditions, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Voltaire (1694–1778), given vodka by Catherine II, (i)
Voroshilov, Kliment (1881–1969), Soviet Marshal, (i)
Voyevodin, Pyotr (1884–1964), vodka talks with Lenin, (i)
Warhol, Andy (1928–1987), first artist designed Absolut Bottle, (i)
Wayne, John (1907–1979), drinks with Khruschev, (i)
Wheatley, Dennis (1897–1977), (i)
Wilson, Harold (1916–1995), (i)
Winter Palace, wine cellars looted, (i)
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw Ignacy (1885–1939), see Witkacy
Witte, Sergei (1849–1915), designs monopoly, (i); complains about, (i), (ii); negotiates Russo-Japanese peace, (i)
WKD, (i)
Wodehouse, P. G. (1881–1975), (i)
Yaroslavl, (i)
Yelstin, Boris (1913-2007), (i); abolishes vodka monopoly, (i)
Zakuski, traditionally eaten with vodka, (i); served in Russian pubs, (i), (ii); enjoyed by Stravinsky, (i)
Zorokovich, 1917, (i)
Soviet Temperance – No to Vodka