There is a legend that when Christian missions arrived to Russia in 10th or 9th century AD, the King of Russia had to choose which faith his people would be baptized into. He carefully studied all the aspects of each branch of Christianity (and also some other religions) and then as being told said something like “The joy of living in Russia is in drinking (alcohol).”. And then chosen Orthodox Christianity as they drink on their rituals. I am not sure if this a true story or a legend, but it’s pretty well known story. So here is a set of photos of Russian people and vodka.
First we’ll have a few hundred year old posters about why drinking is bad and then we’ll have plenty of vintage people drinking photos.
Basically even in Tsarists Russia vodka drinking was considered to be a poor habit. You can see those colorful posters that were used to agitate people stop drinking (probably without any result). On this first poster you can see a few main consequences the authors were attributing to drinking: “ruining the economy”, “drinking till hallucinations”, “death without repentance”. Also: “drinking bring you to misfortune and beggary”, “makes you a thief”, “makes you pawn last belongings” (you can see a guy bringing a wheel to a drinking shop, and “creates family conflicts”. You can see all those depicted.
Also sort of a comparison of a drinker and non drinker. Non drinker is obviously on the left. He is pretty cool looking and tidy, his house is full of joy and plenty of food, everyone seem to be working and house looks awesome from outside. The drinker has red nose, his heart and liver are discolorated and more things happening to him, also his horse seems like is not feeling well. (Why horse??)
And now some drinking population:
Some were making it classy.
Lots of empty stuff down there.
Drinking on the picnics.
Low class people seemed to have bigger bottles.
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