there was even able to leachman. you could literally name anything and the czar had a purveyor. being a vodka purveyor was a very, very big deal. so what happens to smirnov though is that he gets to be so good at what he does, that he almost becomes a lightning rods for the debate on alcohol and russia. so alcoholism still today, problem and russia, then as well a problem in russia. and smirnov being so prominent by then become somebody that is associated with the drinking problem. people began to write about him. of people you may have heard of, for example, anton chekhov, a wonderful playwright, wrote a column in his early years. and he called smirnov by name and other watchmakers satan's number of blood. so he didn't mince words at all. another critic was tolstoy. and tolstoy, i didn't notice know this, but i did learn this, he was a very prominent tempers advocate in russia and he devoted much of his writing and much of his talking and much of his energy to the sobriety movement. in fact, there's a great story about tolstoy calling people together in his village, putting a s

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