“Kazënka: Under State Control. Alpha Series,” Petrograd, September 29, 2015. Photograph by the Russian Reader
kazënka
1. fem., obs.
Grain vodka, whose sales were a state monopoly in Russia until 1917; government vodka.
2.fem., obs.
State shop for sale of kazënka (cf. 1).
3. fem., obs.
A room on a riverboat for the proprietor or his proxy (until 1917 in Russia).