The book is dedicated to the history of vodka as a product. In it, races ¬ affect the originality of the historical, social and economic conditions in which this product arose in Russia, provide information on the terminology of all alcoholic beverages preceding vodka, and on its improvement in the 18th-20th centuries. The design used lubok of the XIX century. For historians, workers in foreign and domestic trade, physicists, chemists, as well as everyone interested in the history of vodka.