Fed’kin Andrey Vasyl’evich, Post-graduate student
Leningrad State University named after A. S. Pushkin
IMPACT OF STATE WINE MONOPOLY IN THE END OF XIX CENTURY ON THE DAILY LIVE OF ST. PETERSBURG WORKERS
Abstract
The article is based on the analysis of archival documents, periodical materials and statistic data. It is devoted to studying the influence of wine monopoly in the late XIX century on the daily life of workers of St. Petersburg. The article describes the socio-cultural portrait of the city, as well as the leisure activity of working residents at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries; evaluates the effectiveness of the reform in terms of achieving its social goals. The conclusion is drawn about the contradictory governmental reforms with their impact on the life of the metropolitan population.
Key words
Wine monopoly, daily life, workers, folk theater, tavern, tea house.
1. Veremenko V. A., Tropov I. A. Reformy i mikrosotsial’nye protsessy v Rossii (vtoraya polovina XIX — nachalo XX v.) [Reforms and microsocial processes in Russia (second half of XIX — early XX century)]. Sotsial’no-ekonomicheskaya i politicheskaya modernizatsiya v Rossii. XIX—XX vv. : sb. nauch. statei, otv. red. I. V. Kochetkov [Socio-economic and political modernization in Russia. XIX—XX centuries. : coll. of scientific articles, ed. by I. V. Kochetkov]. St. Petersburg, KLIO Publ., 2001, pp. 55—63. (In Russian)
2. Nikolaev A. V. “Ulichnoe p’yanstvo” kak sotsial’no-kul’turnoe yavlenie v rossiiskom obshchestve na rubezhe XIX—XX vv. [“Street drinking” as a socio-cultural phenomenon in Russian society at the turn of XIX—XX centuries]. Izvestiya Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo pedagogicheskogo universiteta imeni A. I. Gertsena, 2011, no. 132, pp. 14—22. (In Russian)
3. Pashkov E. V. Istoricheskii opyt osushchestvleniya kazennoi vinnoi monopolii v Rossii kontsa XIX — nachala XX v.: na primere Kurskoi gubernii : avtoref. dis. … kand. ist. nauk [The historical experience of the breech liquor monopoly in Russia in late XIX — early XX century: the example of Kursk province: Abstr. Cand. Dis.]. Kursk, 2009. 26 p. (In Russian)
4. Pashkov E. V. Kazennaya vinnaya monopoliya v Rossii kontsa XIX — nachala XX v. [The breech wine monopoly in Russia of late XIX — early XX century]. Izvestiya Rossiiskogo gosudarstvennogo pedagogicheskogo universiteta imeni A. I. Gertsena, 2013, no. 159, pp. 13—22. (In Russian)
5. Pogrebinskii A. P. Ocherki istorii finansov dorevolyutsionnoi Rossii (XIX—XX vv.) [Essays on the History of Finance in pre-revolutionary Russia (XIX—XX centuries)]. Moscow, Gosfinizdat Publ., 1954. 268 p. (In Russian)
6. Peterburgskaya gazeta, 1898, no. 2.
7. Peterburgskaya gazeta, 1898, no. 19.
8. Peterburgskaya gazeta, 1898, no. 20.
9. Peterburgskii listok, 1898, no. 17.
10. Peterburgskii listok, 1898, no. 19.
11. Peterburgskii listok, 1898, no. 51.
12. Peterburgskii listok, 1898, no. 61.
13. Peterburgskii listok, 1898, no. 119.
14. Peshekhonov A. V. Ekonomicheskaya politika samoderzhaviya (Tsentralizatsiya ekonomicheskoi vlasti) [The economic policy of the autocracy (centralization of economic power)]. St. Petersburg, Red. zhurnala “Russkoe bogatstvo” Publ., 1906. 74 p. (In Russian)
15. Pushkareva N. L., Lyubichankovskii S. V. Ponimanie istorii povsednevnosti v sovremennom istoricheskom issledovanii: ot Shkoly Annalov k rossiiskoi filosofskoi shkole [Understanding the history of everyday life in the modern historical research from the School of Annals to Russian philosophical school]. Vestnik Leningradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta im. A. S. Pushkina, 2014, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 7—21. (In Russian)
16. Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv [Russian State Historical Archive] (RGIA). F. 575. Op. 12. D. 21.
17. RGIA. F. 575. Op. 12. D. 25.
18. RGIA. F. 575. Op. 12. D. 72.
19. Shvanebakh P. Kh. Nashe podatnoe delo [Our tax-paying business]. St. Petersburg, Tip. M. M. Stasyulevicha Publ., 1903. 203 p. (In Russian)