3 historical innovations and the businesses they birthed
crowdSPRING Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2010
By the mid-18th century, the Empress had decreed that vodka distilleries were the exclusive purview of the government and and in the latter half of the 1700s taxes on Vodka sales were responsible for up to 40% of the Czar’s revenue! Meanwhile, distillation of Vodka spread like wildfire to neighboring countries.
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