Description of the attraction
The Museum of the History of Vodka is located in the Izmailovsky Kremlin - a unique architectural ensemble in the style of Russian wooden architecture of the 17th century. The diverse collection of the museum acquaints visitors with the 500 - year history of the famous drink.
The Museum of the History of Vodka exhibits over six hundred types of vodka. Here you can get acquainted with old recipes for making vodka, photographs and various documents related to the history of the preparation of this strong drink, royal and presidential decrees, works of famous writers on this topic.
The museum exhibits a huge collection of historical vodka labels and vodka bottles. In the collection of the museum there are vodka dishes from a scale to a damask, from a bucket to a forty. There are quarters and measuring utensils - with the help of them, vodka was sold to customers in taverns and taverns.
The exposition of the museum consists of sectors, each of which belongs to a certain era: Old Russian, the era of the Russian Empire, the era of the Great Patriotic War, the era of the USSR and the era of modern Russia. Here you can see unique exhibits, for example, an ancient Russian apparatus for the sublimation of raw materials containing alcohol. The most valuable in the museum is the collection of bottles for vodka by N. L. Shustov. The rarest exhibit is the damask of the Supplier of the Court of His Imperial Majesty P. A. Smirnov.
On the walls of the museum there are portraits of the founders of the Russian alcoholic industry and persons related to the history of this drink.
The guides of the museum will tell about the history of creation and about the technologies of vodka production, about the main components of the production of this drink, about how it could influence historical events in Russia, about the emergence of many vodka traditions.
It so happened that vodka has always been an integral part of Russian culture. In one of the halls of the museum, you can see the reconstructed interiors of the late 19th century tavern. In the tavern, you can taste the best sorts of drinks from modern producers and have an excellent snack, in accordance with the national Russian tradition.
Among the associations associated with the mention of Russia in the world, vodka has firmly taken its place, along with nesting dolls, the Moscow Kremlin, a fur hat with earflaps, a bear, caviar, a samovar, bagels and a balalaika.
