Journalist Himelstein recaptures Russia's golden age through the eyes of the former serf-turned vodka entrepreneur, Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov (1831–1898).
From his early days as a small time liquor peddler to one of Russia's richest men, Smirnov was the nemesis of tee totaling Tolstoy who blamed the country's late 19th-century woes on his country men's thirst for alcohol.
As the first Russian
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