kidney disease, 170–171, 258
Kiel, 50
Kiev, 73, 156, 231, 280
Kievan Rus, 77–78, 134
King of Judea (play), 181
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 139
Kirsanov, 131, 134
Kiryakov, Vasily, 156
Kissinger, Henry, 24, 300
Kit Carson, CO, 173
Klyuchevsky, Vasily, 50, 57
knout, 44, 48, 81
Knox, Alfred, 186
Knyaz Suvorov (warship), 163
Kobe, 168
Kohl, Helmut, 297–298
Kokorev, Vasily, 96, 108
Kokovtsov, Vladimir, 176, 178, 375
Kolberg, 53
Kolchak, Aleksandr, 205
Kolokol (magazine), 96–99, 106, 120, 129, 136
Komi, 319
Kommersant (magazine), 355
kompromat. See blackmail
Komsomol, 231, 244, 268, 270
Konstantin Konstantinovich, Grand Duke, 177, 181–184, 192
Konstantin Konstantinovich (the younger), Prince, 183–184
korchma. See tavern
Korea, 160, 167
kormlenie, 95
Kornilov, Vladimir, 157
Korotayev, Andrei, 327–328
Korovin, Aleksandr, 176
Korzhakov, Aleksandr, 289, 294, 297, 299, 301, 302, 305
Kozyrev, Nikolai, 301–302, 452n42
Krasikov, A. See Baitalsky, Mikhail
Krasny Kabak, 56
Krassilnikova, Marina, 365
Kravchuk, Leonid, 292
Krayevsky, Andrei, 137
Kremlin, 3–5, 14, 18–23, 27, 35–38, 54, 61, 73, 108, 149, 152–154, 171, 174, 220, 230–233, 240–241, 245, 259, 264, 277, 280, 288–294, 297, 303–305, 318, 320, 336, 341, 345–349, 353, 356, 361, 364, 368–373, 376, 379–382, 386–389
Kristall Distillery, 338–343, 345, 349, 354–359, 456n53
Kristall Trade and Industrial Group, 355
Krokodil (magazine), 281
krokodil (narcotic). See desomorphine
Kronstadt, 56, 175, 203, 209–210
Krupskaya, Nadezhda, 145, 217, 343
Kryuchkov, Vladimir, 288–289
kto kovo? 25
Kuban, 195
Kudrin, Alexei, 354–357, 364, 373–377, 388
kulak, 213, 218, 227–230, 234
Kulakov, Fyodor, 259
Kulik, Grigory, 8, 396n32
Kultura i byt (magazine), 225
Kulyanov, Sapar, 335
Kuranty (magazine), 295
Kurbsky, Andrei Mikhailovich, Prince, 30–32, 35
Kursk, 210, 214
kvas, xiii, 19, 28, 84, 87, 350, 384
Kyrgyzstan, 321, 323
Labaume, Eugène, 154
labor camps (gulags), 2, 5, 15, 204, 223, 234, 237, 240, 244, 264, 396n33
lacquer, 190
Lake Baikal, 319
Lakota tribe, 173
Lancet, 367, 381
Larin, Yuri, 223–225, 263
Latvia, 20, 30, 45, 48, 118–119, 205, 317
Lebed, Aleksandr, 290, 450n6
Ledeneva, Alena, 343
LeDonne, John P., 113
Leeds, 186
Lefort, François, 40–41, 46, 338
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, 40
lemonade, 210–211
Lenin, Vladimir, 10, 15–16, 19, 25, 61, 144–148, 176, 200–204, 208, 215, 217, 227, 232, 259, 343
mausoleum of, 215, 219–220
and prohibition, 16, 198, 202–204, 210, 212–220, 369, 387
Leningrad, 215, 260, 261, 344, 354, 378
in World War II, 8, 231, 344
See also St. Petersburg, Petrograd
Leningrad State University, 344, 361
Levada Center, 362
Levi, Margaret, 150
Levi’s, 67
Lewenberg, A. 234
Libau, 163
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), 305, 349–350, 387
liberalism, 58, 111, 117, 120, 129, 147, 155, 171, 175, 177, 189, 201, 264, 289, 294, 324, 348, 363, 380
Liber de Vinis, 71
Library of Congress, 66, 72, 158, 165, 179, 407n23
Licensing Act (Sweden), 385–386
Life (magazine), 233
life expectancy, xii, 13–14, 265, 267, 275–277, 295, 309–311, 321–322, 329, 332, 352, 367–370, 382, 459n27, 459n28
Ligachev, Yegor, 258, 261, 270–273, 279, 293, 354, 367
Lincoln, Abraham, 122–123, 300
Linnaeus, Carl, 58
Liquor Tax Rebellion, 118–121
Lithuania, 26, 73, 117–119, 149, 205
Litvinenko, Aleksandr, 462n28
liver disease, 258–259, 309, 319, 331
Liverpool, 128
Livonia. See Latvia
Lloyd, Hannibal Evans, 115
Llull, Ramon, 71
loans-for-shares scandal, 306
Loches, Pion des, 153
Lomonosov, Mikhail, 150
London, 120, 129–131, 342
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 346–347
Lopukhina, Evdokiya, 47
Lopukhov, Dmitry, 131–132
Los Angeles Times, 368
Louis Vuitton, 92
Louis XV, French king, 52
Lukashov, Colonel, 161
Lunacharsky, Anatoly, 202
Lüshunkou. See Port Arthur
Luther, Martin, 26
Lutheran church, 39, 50
Lutz, Wolfgang, 381–382
Luzhkov, Yury, 289–290, 339, 342, 349, 387
Lyubyanka Prison, 202, 237
Lynch, David, 20
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 17
Madagascar, 163, 166
mafiya, 339, 358
Magnitsky, Sergei, 343
Maggs, Peter, xvi, 65–67
Maine Law, 386
Majorca, 71
Malakhov Hill, 156
Malakhov, Mikhail, 157
malaria, 329
Malenkov, Georgy, 6–8
Manchester, 128
Manchuria, 160, 161, 166, 173, 194
Manchurian Railway, 166
Manhattan, 358
Manyukhin, Viktor, 293
Mao Zedong, 236, 239
Marburg, 150
Markelov, 141
market economy. See capitalism
Marmeladov, 136–137
marriage rate, 320, 334
martial law, 203, 257, 288
Marx, Karl, 9, 127–131, 143–145, 221, 223, 232, 308
Marxism, 127–128, 135–138, 143–144, 232, 240, 260, 283, 308
opposition to alcohol, 128, 145, 147, 175, 198, 211
Matryona’s House, 237–238
Matveyev, Artamon, 37
McCormick, Frederick, 161–163, 167–168
McKee, Martin, xvi, 83, 459n17
mead, xiii, 19, 27, 57, 70, 76, 80–85, 91, 94, 118, 149, 350, 383–384
measles, 329
Mediterranean Sea, 71, 76, 164, 195, 284
Medvedev, Dmitry, xii, 13, 18, 352–353, 360–377, 380–382, 389, 465n4
and anti-alcohol campaign, 13, 15, 367–377, 386
Mendeleyev, Dmitry, 409n34
Menshikov, Aleksandr Danilovich, 40–43, 47, 54, 155, 404n53
Menshikov, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, 155–157
Meshchersky, Prince, 177
methyl alcohol, 210, 238, 241
Mexico, 221
Meyer, Herbert E., xvi, 285–286
Michigan, University of, 324
Mikhailov, Evgeny, 317–318
Mikhailov, Peter. See Peter I (the Great)
Mikhailov, Vasily, 61
Mikoyan, Anastas, 6–8, 31
Military Revolutionary Committee, 202
Military Revolutionary Court, 202
Miloslavskaya, Maria, 36
Minsk, 156, 195
Mintslov, Ivan, 388
mir. See imperial Russia, village commune in
Mitkov,
Mochan, 31–32
mixed martial arts (MMA), 378–379
mobilization riots. See war mobilization
Moldova, 49, 155, 205, 231, 284, 321–323, 330
Molotov cocktail, 338
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939), 3, 4, 230–231
Molotov, Vycheslav, 4–8, 23, 225, 231, 234
Mongolian still, 67
Mongols, 27, 73, 95
monkeys, 41
Mons, Anna, 40, 338
Montebello, Marquis de, 172
Montesquieu, 75
Monson, Jeff, 378–379
moonshining. See vodka, home-brewed (samogon)
Mordovia, 77
mortality, 14, 67, 86, 108, 114, 245, 250–251, 265, 275–277, 282, 310–311, 326–331, 348, 367, 380, 385, 390
Moscow, 1, 24–27, 32–33, 39–41, 44, 54, 60, 63–67, 73, 86–88, 92, 119, 147, 151–152, 171–172, 183, 189, 191, 202–206, 210, 214–215, 219, 231, 243, 251, 257, 264, 283, 289–290, 294, 319, 329, 338–340, 343–344, 349–351, 353, 359–361, 364, 370, 378
German quarter of, 39–41, 338
set ablaze under Napoleon’s occupation, 152–154
See also Muscovy
Moscow News, 374
Moscow River, 1, 290, 438n28
Moscow State University, 67, 150, 223, 259, 350
Moscow to the End of the Line, 242–243, 276
Moscow Uprising (1648), 154
Moscow Uprising (1682), 37, 54, 154
Mosfilm, 21
Moskovskaya vodka, 65
Mukden, 166–167
Münnich, Burchard, 56
murder, 136, 137, 160–161, 247, 348, 352
and alcohol, 12, 88, 114, 131, 137, 234, 276, 282, 309, 331–332, 367, 369
Murmansk, 195, 205, 336
Murray, Eustace Clare Grenville, 124–125
Muscovy, 18, 26, 27, 28, 29, 72–73, 76–77, 80, 94, 95, 149, 344
See also Moscow, imperial Russia
Nagorno-Karabakh, 284
Napoleonic wars, 151–154
Narcissus, 57
Narkomtrud. See People’s Commissariat of Labor (narkomtrud)
Narodnaya volya. See People’s Will
narodniki, 140–143
Naryshkina, Natalia, 37–38
Nashi, 379
“national champion” companies, 340–342, 345–346, 354–357, 361, 366, 373, 376
National Economy of the USSR, 244
See also Goskomstat
National Intelligence Council, 285
National Priority Projects, 353, 361–366, 376
National Review (magazine), 285
nationalism, 150, 204, 232, 240, 283–289, 348, 380, 389
Native Americans, 173
Navalny, Alexei, 92–93, 96, 107, 357, 365, 373, 379
Nazarbayev, Nursultan, 289–290
Nazi Germany, 2–8, 15, 20, 230–237, 310, 338, 343, 360
Nebraska, 173, 303
Nemtsov, Aleksandr, xiv, xvi, 88, 253, 317, 356, 367
Nemtsov, Boris, 372–373
nepotism, 94, 272
See also corruption
nesting dolls, xi
Netherlands, 40, 403n40
Neue freie Presse, 168
Neva River, 45, 49, 55, 130, 164, 203
Nevsky Prospekt, 144, 199
New Economic Policy (NEP), 16, 206, 209–216
“New Soviet man,” 15–17, 198, 212, 221–223, 254, 264
New Year’s holiday, 43–44, 303, 306
New York, 115, 134, 326, 358
New York Times, xi, 249
New York University, 310
New Yorker (magazine), 242, 352
Nezhdanov, Alexei, 142
Nicholas I, Tsar, 58–59, 93, 99, 118, 121, 155–156, 158
Nicholas II, Tsar, 16, 18, 139, 140, 147, 163, 169–184, 196, 199, 279, 293, 338
drinking habits of, 169–171
military service of, 169–171
and prohibition, 16, 170, 178–179, 186–190, 193, 196–198, 232, 338, 369–371, 376, 387–388
and Russo-Japanese War, 163, 167–170, 174, 179
and temperance, 176–179, 188, 196
and World War I, 178–179, 186–190, 193, 196
Nieman River, 151
Nightingale, Florence, 104, 155
nihilism, 129, 136, 147
Nikolai Nikolaevich, Grand Duke, 175–176, 179–180, 186, 199
Nikolasha. See Nikolai Nikolaevich, Grand Duke
Nikolayev, Andrei, 314–315
Ni shagu nazad, 233
Nixon, Richard, 24–25, 299–300, 305
Nizhny Novgorod, 76–77, 147, 204, 264
NKVD. See People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)
nobility, 47
Nobel Prize, 207, 240, 313, 376
North Ossetia, 314, 465n81
North Pole, 141
North Sea, 163–164
Notebooks for the Children, 248
Notes of a Soldier, 191
Novaya zhizn (magazine), 202
Nove, Alec, 228
Novgorod birchbark documents, 68–70
Novgorod Veliky, 67–68, 73, 82, 309
Novikov, Aleksandr, 5
Novodevichy Convent, 38
Novo-Preobrazhenskoye, 39
Novosibirsk, 250, 276, 284, 370
NTV, 342–343, 361
Nurgaliyev, Rashid, 366
Obama, Barack, 275
obshchina. See imperial Russia, village commune in
“October Events” (1993), 296–297, 300, 345, 348
October (film), 20, 26, 200
October Manifesto, 175–176
Odessa, 175, 323
Of the Russe Common Wealth, 81
oil, 107, 152, 211, 222, 233, 272, 280–281, 320, 339–345, 350–354, 360, 363–364, 371, 374–376, 383, 389
Oklahoma, 216, 391
okhrana. See imperial Russia, secret police in
Old Believers, 106, 125
Oldenberg, Sergei, 196
Olearius, Adam, 81–82, 86–87, 106, 113–114
Oleg Konstantinovich, Prince, 182–184, 188
oligarchs, 306, 317–318, 320, 342–343, 357, 361, 363, 383
Olympic games, 92, 361, 363
Olympic Stadium, 378
Omaha, 303
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 237
Operation Barbarossa, 231
Operation Trawl, 257–258
oprichniki, 21, 33, 228
See also boyars
Oranienbaum, 51, 55–56
Orel (warship), 164
Orlov, Alexei, 55–58
Orlov, Grigory, 55–57
orphans, 206, 327, 334–336
Orthodoxy. See Russian Orthodox Church
Orwell, George, 15, 397n9
Oryol, 104, 191, 323
Osborne, Peregrine, Admiral, 41
Osipov, Nikolai, 124
Oskin, Dmitry, 191
Oslyaba, 163
Ostankino, 296–297
otkupshchik. See tax farmer
Ottoman Empire, 111, 121, 151, 155–160
Our Home is Russia, 348
Pacific Ocean, 111, 163–165, 196, 236
Palace of Congresses, 73
Panchulidze, A. A., 96
Pankratev, L., 133
See also Chernyshevsky, Nikolai
Paris, 154, 159, 174, 391
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, 66–67
partisans, 234
Passek, Peter, 55–56
Pasternak, Boris, 63, 313
Pasteur, Louis, 78
pasteurization, 78
Patenaude, Bertrand, 208–209
Patients’ Rights Protection League, 365–366
Paul I, Tsar, 58
Pavlov, Valentin, 59, 288–289, 291
Pavlovna, Vera, 130–132, 134
Pavlovsk, 182
Pavlovsky Regiment, 204
Peace Palace, 65
peasantry, 16, 79–91, 100–1
08, 111–112, 117–120, 124–126, 130, 138–150, 172, 185, 196, 204–210, 213–218, 223–230, 239–240, 389
pechenochniki, 319
Penza, 96
People (magazine), 251
People’s Commissariat of Enlightenment, 202
People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), 2, 4, 202, 214, 228, 232–234, 237
See also Committee for State Security (KGB)
People’s Commissariat of Labor (Narkomtrud), 223
People’s Will, 143
Pepsi Cola, 62, 313
perestroika, 262, 265–266, 277, 280, 288, 293, 321, 333, 338
Perestroika: History of Betrayal, 271
Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), 65
Persia, 111
Peter and Paul Fortress, 48, 130
Peter I (the Great), Tsar, 18, 26, 36–50, 54–55, 111, 155, 159
drinking habits of, 39–48, 58
and “Drunken Synod,” 42–43, 48
and dwarfs, 43, 45, 47–48
Grand Embassy of, 40–41
and “Great Eagle,” 42–46
instrumental use of drinking, 45–46, 293
“Jolly Company” of, 41–44, 404n50
modernizing reforms of, 44, 47–48, 112, 150
murder and torture by, 38–39, 46–48
and streltsy, 37–39, 46–47
upbringing of, 36–40, 44, 47
Peter II, Tsar, 54
Peter III, Tsar, 18, 50–59
drinking habits of, 50–51, 53, 57
marriage to Catherine II, 50–53
overthrown by Catherine II, 53–59, 291
upbringing of, 50–51
Peter Petrovich, Tsarevich, 47
Peter of Holstein-Gottorp. See Peter III, Tsar
Peterhof, 56
Petrograd, 181, 186, 189, 195, 199–206, 210, 215
See also St. Petersburg, Leningrad
Petrograd Soviet, 189, 199
Petrovich, Porfiry, 136
Petrovsky, Boris, 251
Petrovsky Palace, 154, 424n16
Petrov Vodka Factory, 204
Philip II, Metropolitan, 33
Pipes, Richard, 67
pivo. See beer
Plekhanov, Georgy, 131
Pleshakov, Constantine, 232
Pleyer, Otto, 48
Podolsk, xvi, 61–62, 228, 335
pogrom, 175, 200–204, 284, 427n19
Pokhlebkin, Vilyam, 61–67, 73, 80, 90, 409n44–47
murder of, 63, 67, 334
Poland, 20, 30, 34, 49, 61, 65–67, 71, 74–76, 111, 117–119, 125, 155, 205, 257, 322, 382
polio, 329
Politburo. See Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Politburo of
Political Power of Bad Ideas, xvi, 386
Politovsky, Evgeny, 161
Polivanov, Alexei, 186–187
poll tax, 112–113
pollution, 327, 336, 360
Poltava, 45, 195–196
polugar. See vodka
pomoch, 87, 105, 214
Porter, Robert Ker, 115
Portsmouth, Treaty of, 167
Poskrebyshev, Aleksandr, 8, 396n33
Port Arthur, 160–167
pot distillation, 67
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