Charter about wine [Russian]

By Ekaterina II

Already in the X and XI centuries. in the history of Russia there are indications of the taxation of spirits (medovayadan collection with malt brashnaya duties, etc..). Quite early in the sale of hard liquor is the subject of official monopoly, and when John III itself distilling concentrated in the hands of the government, even though the original purpose of a monopoly - only moral police, and not financial. For example, when Ivan the Terrible in Moscow all the inns were state-owned and located in the superintendence in nadelschikov and foremen, who gave the Pure surrounding residents handrails records (Code of Law, 1550); inns in other cities heard the boyars feeding. After the capture of Kazan Tatar tavern received name- 'pub' and 'tsar's tavern "began to spread everywhere, the same person for a private right to manufacture beverage treasury had to pay a fee -' appearance '. Peter I ordered business saloon Burmisterskoy Chamber vosstanoviv1705 was canceled in 1682 mercy. Since 1716 distillation became free, but excise tax levied at a rate of poluposhliny with bucket capacity branding cubes or Kazan in the year. Since 1744, this system abolished and excise calculated from the wine began at 3 kopecks. And vodka with 6 kopecks. a bucket, and issued special labels on baggage. In 1749, marking cubes restored in 1750 set the price of wine monotonous defined Chambers-board, introduced in 1767 throughout the repurchase, to give 4 g taverns renamed "drinking at home", in 1775 local government instructed the Exchequer. Charter of wine in 1781, the text of which is shown in the hand, lifted by collecting tank cubes and branding, and the wine was dispensed tax-farmers only state-owned warehouses, and was sold at the price of the breech (later, however, were allowed to procure wine tax-farmers); the price of the wine and conditions of the repurchase changed in every four years until 1817 when (at the initiative of the Minister of Finance Count Guriev) issued a new charter on drinking gathering, has set a breech wholesale wine, gives to superintendence of the Exchequer, and county governments. Material distribution is interesting for understanding the evolution of attitudes to alcohol.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Russian
• ISBN: 5519431876
• ISBN13: 9785519431873
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Book on Demand Ltd.
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.3" x 11.0"