Abstract
Abstract When Nicholas I died in February 1835, he left a world that still belonged to Nikolai Gogol. Much in this world still smacked of Muscovy, not least its taverns, its distilleries, and its vodka merchants. A decade later that world was dead, brought down by ten years of glasnost' and reform. Serfdom had gone, so had the Nicholaevan censorship, the old legal system, and the traditional structures of local government. The tax farms also disappeared. This overhaul of Russia's social and legal structure was the achievement of the decade of perestroika known as the period of the ‘Great Reforms’. This chapter examines the Russian liquor trade and the upper class opposition to tax farming.
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