Museum of Russian vodka description and photos - Russia - Golden Ring: Uglich (Topic)

Museum of Russian vodka description and photos - Russia - Golden Ring: Uglich. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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On August 27, 1998, the first in Russia and in the world municipal museum of the history of Russian vodka was opened in Uglich. The Uglich land is the birthplace of Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov, the famous "vodka king" of Russia. He is the founder of P.A. Smirnov "in Moscow at the Pig-iron Bridge (1860), supplier of the Vysochaishy Dvor since 1866. Uglich is also associated with the name of his uncle - Grigory Alekseevich Smirnov, a serf of the Skripitsyn nobles, who in 1835 laid the foundation for the inn and hotel business in Uglich.

The museum exhibits antiques: pots, moonshine stills, the first mechanized machine for bottling wine products, an original exhibition of old bottles, vodka of the Soviet period, labels, old dishes, gifts - vodka from around the world, cities of the CIS. Alcoholic products of 96 distilleries in Russia are presented - more than 1000 varieties of vodka.

The main purpose of the opening of the museum is to present in its exposition all varieties of vodka produced by distilleries in Russia. Museum "History of Russian Vodka" has a tasting room "Russian hut".

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