RUSSIAN MISCELLANY PROJECT Images of Vodka RUSSIAN VODKA

RUSSIAN MISCELLANY PROJECT Images of Vodka

RUSSIAN VODKA LABELS “Jewel of Russia”

RUSSIAN VODKA LABELS “VODKA RUSSIA”

RUSSIAN VODKA ADS AS NATIONAL PRIDE “RUSSIAN STANDARD” AND “STOLICHNAYA”

RUSSIAN VODKA ADS AS NATIONAL PRIDE “STOLICHNAYA”

RUSSIAN VODKA AS NATIONAL PRIDE “STOLICHNAYA” VS.

RUSSIAN VODKA IN POP CULTURE Absolut Vodka– Andy Warhol “Robot and Vodka” from www. ronl. org blog website

VODKA IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE Joke: This is Armenian Radio; our listeners asked us: “What to do if vodka interferes with the job? ” We’re answering: “Get off the job” Proverb: “The first strikes like a stake, the second dives like a falcon, and the rest flutter around like tiny birds” –Tatyana Tolstaya (talking about an old proverb describing drinking jiggers of vodka in her book Pushkin’s Children: Writings on Russia and Russians Passage: “I drank and poured again. And at that very instant I felt as though I’d fallen through something. Suddenly I felt as though I were on the bottom of an aquarium. Everything swayed, swam away, there were glittering patches of light. And then everything disappeared. ” –Sergei Doylatov (The Compromise) Quote: “Is the vodka? ” Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up from its chair in indignation. “Excuse me majesty, ” he squeaked, “do you think I would give vodka to a lady? That is pure spirit!”—Mikhail Bulgakov (The Master and Margarita)

VODKA IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE Books: And Quiet Flows the Vodka: or When Pushkin Comes to Shove: The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Russian Literature with the Devil’s Dictionary of Received Ideas by Alicia Chudo, and Gary Saul Morson. Edited by Andrew Sobesednikov History of Vodka by William Pokhlebkin Film: Sibirskiy Tsiyulnik directed by Nikita Mikhalkov

ABSINTHE IN EUROPE --LABELS--

ABSINTHE IN EUROPE --ART/POP CULTURE-- “Absinthe Drinker” —Edouard Manet “Absinthe Drinker” —Pablo Picasso

ABSINTHE IN EUROPE --ANTI-ABSINTHE PROPAGANDA— (SWITZERLAND)