The Russians have experimented twice with Prohibition in the past 100 years. Apparently prohibition was as disastrous for the Russians as it was for the United States.
Dolls and Vodka do mix.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, also famous for making the original Periodic Table of the Elements, has a wax figure display at the vodka museum because he was the first to standardise the Alcohol content of Vodka at a rich 40%. Whereas previously the content had varied from 15-40%.
A Display for one of Russia's original vodka families... Smirnoff. This causes some controversy because the American known Smirnoff resulted from one son of the original CMEPHOB (best attempt at Russian script as Blogspot won't recognize it) family selling the rights to the name and vodka, now some members of the original family consider that a mistake.
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