By 1910, the Russian government had nationalized the sale of all vodka in the empire. Through excise duties and taxes, vodka accounted for more than 25% of all government revenue.
The modern equivalent in U.S. terms would be if liquor taxes brought in appoximately $512 billion dollars yearly.
Source:
Peter Waldron, The End of Imperial Russia, (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1997), p.60.
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