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🔞Today is Russian vodka's birthday! 🔻Despite all stereotypes, vodka only appeared in Russia at the end of the 14th century. In 1386, a Genoese embassy brought the first vodka (aqua vitae - "living water") to Moscow and presented it to Prince Dmitry Donskoy. 🔻The event that informally established Russian Vodka Birthday occurred on January 31, 1865. On that day in St. Petersburg, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev defended his famous doctoral dissertation, "On the Combination of Alcohol with Water," which he had worked on from 1863 to 1864. 🔻At that time, in Russia, "bread wine" was made to everyone's own taste. This is not at all the drink we call vodka today! Vodka then implied an infusion of herbs, berries, and roots. 🔻Modern vodka only became vodka in 1936, when the corresponding GOST (State Standard) was adopted. #brief_and_interesting 😎RCRussian | Support | Boost