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Historical Background
Vodka is one of the oldest and most alcoholic beverages drunk in the world. Its origin can not be reconstructed with precision, but is expected to be in the current trace from Poland and Russia.
Then draws its origins in Eastern Europe, where its paternity of the name Poland and Russia. The word "vodka" is, in various Slavic languages, Italian diminutive of the corresponding terms "water", for example in Russian "вода" [voda], or Polish woda, in analogy with the Italian "spirit" which, similarly, means a beverage that looks clear and transparent water. Decided that it was written, for the first time in Poland in 1405 in a register of Sandomierz Court. He probably wanted to show with the name "Arquette" (with ironic understatement) a light distillate and clean in taste, but certainly not in the alcohol, because, as already mentioned, some types of Vodka easily exceed the 50 º alcohol. It is interesting to know that vodka is called, in the places where it is assumed to be born, with the words whose root means "to burn", for example in Polish: gorzałka.
In 1520, only in Gdansk in Poland there were already sixty distilleries officers, not to mention the clandestine work. In Russia in 1649, Tsar Alexis issued an imperial code for the production of vodka, and the beginning of the eighteenth century the noble landowners had permission to hold a still small productions for their own private consumption. Here the term Vodka (with modern meaning) was written in an official document dating from the reign of the Empress Catherine II, the decree, dated June 8, 1751, regulated the ownership of some of vodka distilleries. Another possible origin of the term can be found in the chronicles of Novgorod, in the year 1533, where the word "vodka" was used in the context of alcoholic tinctures.
The Vodka was spread in Europe by Napoleon. He got to know the distillate during the Russian campaign in 1812, which was followed by the disastrous retreat. To warm up his troops, left without food and alcohol due to excessive elongation of the chain of supply, razed large amounts of Vodka as a remedy to the attack of the enemy more formidable: the cold of "General Winter".
The real spread of Vodka arrived in Europe after the Russian Revolution in 1917, with the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks led by Lenin. Several Russian exiles, apparteneneti the nobility owns the secrets of distillation, emigrated to France to save himself from the mass purges wanted by the communist regime. [...] The most famous exile is definitely Piotr Smirnoff which you saw confiscated the factory, founded in 1860. He emigrated to Turkey to escape the deadly hunt, and then to Poland, where he opened a distillery, then decide in 1925 to settle in Paris, where he changed his name to Pierre. Similar events are to Romanoff and the Count Keglevich who found refuge in Trieste. Another similar situation lived Prince Nikolai Alexandrovich, owner of Eristoff, whose distillery was opened in 1806. [2]
Today in Poland and Russia are thousands distilleries that produce this drink. It produces good vodka and also in almost all countries of Eastern and Northern Europe, which are also great consumers, with traditions handed down for centuries. In Western Europe and North America spread on a large scale instead has a more recent history. It was rarely drunk outside of Eastern Europe before 1950 but its popularity was also extended to the New World as a result of post-war France. In 1975, the United States of America, surpassed sales of bourbon whiskey, until then the most consumed liquor from the American population. Even if the vodka does not belong to the Italian culture in recent years has increased in the country both the production and consumption of the beverage. It can therefore now define a Vodka drink known and produced on a global scale.