For us, who had the good fortune (?) to experience the Soviet regime alive and even (for some) to grow up under it, many everyday things that did not cause any special emotions then (and sometimes caused irritation) now, as we move away from the times of our wonderful childhood, are increasingly becoming a reason for nostalgia. Where have the vending machines with soda for 1 kopeck and three rubles with syrup gone? Who was interrupted? I want to drink cold soda in the summer! Gentlemen businessmen, ah!
Why were no epidemics caused by repeatedly licking a faceted glass, lightly rinsed with tap water? And I will explain to you, dear comrades! Because a faceted glass has the ability to accumulate cosmic life-giving power in its perfect forms! This power not only kills all germs without any disinfection, but also clearly contributes to spiritual elevation and even, at times, (for a select few) epiphany when consuming from it uplifting special epiphany drinks.
Remember for yourself what you want to talk about while drinking a national visionary from some Chinese glass, or, God forbid, a nasty plastic disposable cup? That's right, about football, fishing, women and cars. That is, about low-lying, everyday and mundane objects.
And only launched into the body from the correct space device, popularly called the Faceted Glass (hereinafter - GS), the seer leads the recipient to think about the sublime: about respect for the individual, about the meaning/meaninglessness of human existence, about the people's welfare and other otherworldly things, in everyday life not encountered.
When the Cosmic Significance of the GE for Russian consciousness in general and the philosophical understanding of our reality in particular was suddenly revealed to me, I could not remain indifferent. The deplorable state of spirituality of our people is the result of the disappearance of the GE from everyday life! It is necessary to save at least the little that remains! And as a result of almost archaeological excavations in attics, closets and even underground, this collection gradually began to be collected. Unexpectedly, it turned out that I am not the only one concerned about the fate of the Russian consciousness of the Faceted Glass: http://periskop.livejournal.com/777120.html#cutid1
Therefore, I decided to present to the public several exhibits from my collection with a brief history of each find.
- Glass Faceted “Lipped” type GS-14.
It has a capacity of 250 grams (to the top) or 200 (to the “lip”). Please note that only REAL three 250 gram containers can accurately pour 500 grams of drink! Try the same experiment with mugs or other utensils. No way! Here is proof of the Cosmic nature of the native GE - only with its help can 500 be divided by 3 without a remainder.
This photo shows a sample of a 14-sided GS produced no later than the 50s. This magnificent example was found in the attic of a dilapidated cottage, wrapped in newspaper from 1958. This allowed us to make a rough estimate of the age of the find. After restoration, the rarity is regularly used for its intended purpose. Due to its versatility, it is very helpful in finding inspiration. In particular, he unexpectedly inspired me to build a new country toilet.
- Glass Faceted “Lipped” type GS-20
The capacity of this miracle is no different from the usual GS-14. The same classic 200/250. But a miracle is a miracle.
This wonderful piece was found on a shelf in an old village barn. The time of creation of the GS-20 space device is lost in the darkness of years. But the location of the find undoubtedly proves that fine-cut GS can also be used in agriculture, for example, for milk yield and weight gain! However, the experiment on using this device was a great success on humans. GS-20 remarkably liberates the inner world and frees the consciousness to fly into space and facilitates the painless return of departed spiritual property back in the morning.
- Glass “small” type MGS-16
This is the “little brother” of the classic “big-lipped” GS. Used mainly by women as measuring utensils and for drinking large quantities of drinks using the “Oh, I don’t drink at all! I’m just a little bit down!”
Helps women become at least a little closer to men. If not biologically, then at least intellectually. A favorite container for mothers-in-law and cousins from the provinces.
- Faceted festive stack SGP-14
Of course, the classic GS is universal and comprehensive, but if you decide to visit space in the company of other cosmonauts, drunkards, and intellectuals, then the cost of travel increases sharply!
For such cases of group travel, a story was invented about the “indecency” of using it in society from the classical HS, and the “decent” SGP-14 with a capacity of 100 grams was invented as a fig leaf.
At a reasonable travel speed, SGP-14 allows, on the one hand, to maintain decency and, on the other hand, to travel to nirvana in economy class.
- Faceted microscopic glass RGM-12
It is used only in exceptional cases for drinking drinks that have an astronomical price or a fantastically vile taste. RGM-12, like its older brothers, greatly enhances the positive effect of conditionally beneficial (or supposedly healing) substances placed inside, and therefore enjoys great success among heart patients, hypertensive patients and other sufferers. In fact, it is not their disgusting drugs that help the sufferers, but the flow of cosmic life-giving power, sparkling in the facets of this masterpiece.
Please note that native St. Petersburg old women prefer to drip their Valocordin into RGM-12. They know the true power of cosmic edges.
Finally, a group photo:
Somewhat apart from the GS there is such a phenomenon as Thin Glass (TC) and its integral part and second essence Cup holder (PS).
The creation of the aesthetes of the Silver Age was so loved by the common people and their executioner leaders that even after the liquidation of the Silver Age along with its creators, the TS+PS tandem did not disappear, but took an honorable place in Soviet life.
I also like to drink tea from a thin transparent glass with a cup holder. The taste of the drink, pleasing to the eye with a golden lemon floating in the waves of real tea not from a newspaper bag, but from a pot-bellied teapot with a red flower on the side, becomes beautiful to the point of uniqueness. No, even the most elegant porcelain (faience, iron, plastic and other) dishes will give the eye the aesthetic pleasure that we have when we hold this beautiful masterpiece of domestic artistic (and technical) thought in our hands.
The high artistic (not to mention the taste!) advantages of drinking tea from TS+PS are especially clearly revealed when using a real wood-burning samovar. But the Samovar deserves a separate post and I only touched on its topic here with this photo.
So, gentlemen! I urge you to support Russian consciousness in general and its embodiment - the Faceted Glass in particular! Without the production and implementation of which on a large scale, the revival of our original spirituality and moral purity, immanently inherent in the Russian people, is impossible.
Amen!Eight interesting facts about the Soviet cut glass
This integral attribute of Soviet life was first manufactured in 1943 at the oldest glass factory in Russia in the city of Gus-Khrustalny, exactly in the form in which we are accustomed to seeing it.
A classic of Soviet-era tableware, today the cut glass is becoming a rarity. We invite you to get acquainted with interesting facts regarding this cut glassware.
1. The Soviet cut glass was created by a sculptor. At least, it is believed that the design for this particular glass was developed by the famous Soviet sculptor, creator of the famous monument “Worker and Collective Farm Woman” Vera Mukhina. According to one legend, she created this “masterpiece” of glassware together with the author of “Black Square” Kazimir Malevich in besieged Leningrad in 1943. 
2. The cost of the glass depended on the number of sides. Glasses with 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20 sides were produced. There were also 17 ones, but the release with an odd number of edges is more complicated, so we settled on the most acceptable and convenient one - with 16 edges. The first faceted glasses had 10 sides and cost 3 kopecks. The classic 16-sided one is 7 kopecks, and if it is more grooved, with 20 edges, then 14 kopecks. But the capacity of the glass remained unchanged: to the glass rim - 200 ml, to the brim - 250 ml. 
3. The appearance of a faceted glass is due to scientific and technological progress. This shape and structure of the glass was dictated by production necessity, and not by the artist’s imagination. Even before the war, Soviet engineers invented a miracle of technology - a dishwasher, in which only dishes of a certain shape and size could be washed. This particular glass was very suitable for this unit, and besides, it was very durable due to the thickness and special method of making the glass.
4. The famous expression “think for three” is associated with the Soviet faceted glass. During Khrushchev’s time, the sale of vodka by the glass was banned, and very convenient bottles called “bastards” - 125 ml each and “chekushki” - 200 ml each - were removed from sale. Now a half-liter bottle of vodka did not fit into 2 glasses, but was divided into three perfectly - “according to conscience.” If you pour into a glass up to the glass rim, then exactly 167 grams of vodka enters, which is a third of a half-liter bottle. 
5. A Moldavian historian names the Soviet cut glass as the reason for drunkenness in Moldova. According to Veaceslav Stavila, until 1944, when Soviet troops liberated Moldova from the fascist occupiers, people in the country drank from small 50-milliliter glasses. Soviet soldiers brought a faceted, capacious glass, resistant to falling and durable. After this, Moldovans began to drink more. 
6. People called the Soviet faceted glass “Malenkovsky”. This is due to the Minister of Defense Georgy Malenkov, by order of whom 200 g of vodka was allocated for lunch for certain categories of military personnel. Those who did not drink were allowed to exchange their rations in the volume of a faceted glass for a tobacco ration or sugar. This rule did not last long, but was very memorable for many who served at that time. 
7. In the 80s of the 20th century, Soviet faceted glasses began to explode en masse. There were rumors among the people about a new anti-alcohol campaign, about the machinations of capitalists who encroached on the “sacred” and chose the most successful object. But everything turned out to be much more prosaic. An imported line for the production of glasses was installed at the plant and the exact manufacturing technology was no longer taken into account. As a result, the glasses began to crumble, burst at the seams, and the bottoms fell off. One woman’s table set for the holiday “exploded.” This fact was noted in one of the issues of the satirical film magazine “Wick”.
8. Soviet cut glass was widely used in public catering. This is a well-known fact. But few people know that this fact is recognized by experts as an unofficial cultural sign of the Soviet era, as a symbol of something social, public, and unifying. And indeed it is. Common faceted glasses were in soda water machines, in canteens with compote and kefir, with tea and jelly in kindergartens and schools. 
And on the railway they still serve tea in Soviet-style cut glasses with a glass holder, which is surprisingly pleasant and cute.
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From the river to the ocean
From blizzard to melancholy
Cut Glass Day
Men celebrated!
VladiMir.
The origin of the faceted glass is not known for certain. A common point of view is that faceted glasses began to be made in Russia during the era of Peter I in the city of Gus-Khrustalny. The faceted glass did not roll off the table if it overturned during the rocking motion of the ship. In any case, we can say with confidence that before the revolution, glasses and shot glasses with edges were already manufactured in Russia. 
The design of the Soviet-style faceted glass is attributed to Vera Ignatievna Mukhina, the author of the monumental composition “Worker and Collective Farm Woman.” However, there is no documentary evidence of this, but this is exactly what her colleagues are talking about. 
They say that Vera Ignatievna “invented” it together with the artist Kazimir Malevich, the author of the famous “Black Square”. In the fall of 1930, Malevich was arrested by the GPU and spent three long months in the famous St. Petersburg prison “Kresty”.
The investigator directly told the artist: “What Cezanism are you talking about? What kind of cubism are you preaching about? We have only one “ism” - Marxism.”
Tea was brought into the cell not in a tin mug, but in round glasses without cup holders. The fragile glass often broke in the powerful hands of the prisoners, who squeezed the glass tightly to keep warm. In the head of Malevich, who always preferred rigid geometric shapes, an idea was immediately born: what if the glass was not made in a round shape, but in the form of a polyhedron? Then its rigidity will increase many times over!
After being released from prison, Malevich shared the idea of creating a faceted glass with the sculptor Vera Mukhina. She, through her designer friends, ensured that such a glass was put into production 
According to another version, the unique form was suggested to her by her husband, who liked to have a drink or two after work. Both are quite possible. 
A simple faceted glass appeared much earlier - even in Petrov-Vodkin’s “Morning Still Life” a 12-sided glass of tea is depicted,
and this is 1918. Some sources mention cut glasses from the Urschel glass factory in 1914.
And there is an even earlier mention of a cut glass 
The first cut glass made of thick glass was allegedly presented to Peter the Great by Vladimir glassmaker Efim Smolin, assuring the Tsar that it would not break. The Emperor, having drunk the intoxicating drink, immediately threw the cup to the ground with the words: “Let’s have a glass!” It broke into small fragments.
However, the royal anger did not follow, and popular rumor later interpreted his call differently - “Break the glasses.” Since then, there has been a tradition of breaking glassware during the feast. 
The origin of the word itself is not clearly determined. In the 17th century, a glass was called a dostan because it was made from planks ground together 
It is since then that the rim on top of modern faceted glasses has been preserved - in the past, a ring connecting wooden segments. According to other versions, the word glass is borrowed from the Turkic “tustygan” - bowl or “dastarkhan” - festive table 
And Vera Ignatievna became interested in glass in the late 1940s, at which time it was necessary to develop a glass shape for public catering (convenient for use in dishwashers, and at the same time more durable). 
The “Mukhinsky” glass was created taking into account these requirements - a smooth ring running along the circumference of the edge, and distinguishes it from the traditional shape
“simple faceted.” 
The dimensions of a classic faceted glass are 65 mm in diameter and 90 mm in height. The glass had 16 sides (there are also specimens with 17 sides, but 12, 14, 16 and 18 are the most typical number, because, from a technology point of view, it is easier to produce glasses with an even number of sides) and held 200 ml of liquid (to the brim ). At the bottom of the glass, its price was squeezed out (usually 7 or 14 kopecks; “20-sided ones” cost 14 kopecks). 
Characteristics of a standard faceted glass made in the USSR:
Top diameter: 7.2 - 7.3 cm;
Bottom diameter: 5.5cm;
Height: 10.5 cm;
Number of faces: 16, 20 (other values are possible);
Top edge width: 1.4 cm, 2.1 cm (other values are possible);
Glass volume: 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 350 milliliters 
A faceted glass has a number of advantages compared to a regular cylindrical glass. Thanks to its edges, such a glass is much stronger and can survive a fall onto a concrete floor from a meter in height. 
Therefore, cut glasses are still produced today and are used in catering establishments, as well as on passenger trains (usually with a cup holder). 
In 2003, a kind of record was set in St. Petersburg - a pyramid of two thousand faceted glasses one and a half meters high was built in the Baltic House theater. This achievement was included in the St. Petersburg Book of Records 
After the war, glasses began to be churned out at many glass factories in the USSR at a rate of 5-6 hundred million per year, based on a couple of pieces per person. 
Faceted glasses were in every apartment, in canteens, military units, prisons, hospitals, schools, and kindergartens. They accompanied Soviet people on trains and waited in street soda fountains. The glass was ideal for measuring the volume of liquid and bulk products and calculating their mass (if you pour liquid into a glass up to the rim, you get exactly 200 milliliters, with the rim - 250). Faceted was adopted by grandmothers selling seeds and other bulk goods. By the way, the price of the container was affordable - only 3 kopecks. Later, a glass began to cost 7 kopecks. But in general, faceted glasses were surprisingly durable: the raw materials were boiled at a temperature of 1400-1600 degrees, fired twice and cut using a special technology. Lead, which is used in crystal compositions, was added to the mixture for strength. In Moscow now you can buy a plastic cup on every corner, but a classic faceted cup is hard to find in stores. But nevertheless, the shape of the faceted glass itself is very popular, and some of its forms are classic and are served with certain alcoholic drinks.
FACETED GLASSES
The train was coming. We looked out the window together.
We were driving from the south into the fogs.
We were traveling to a region where there was snow everywhere,
From there, where the summer is hot.
The road is long, but no matter how long it is,
It will end somewhere.
Faceted glasses have a heavy bottom,
They stood very firmly
Wine splashed in cut glasses,
We drank it and dreamed.
A faceted glass is a Russian glass,
A glass for love and for friendship.
A cut glass, like a password was given to us,
The only true and necessary one.
The train was coming. It doesn't matter where from where.
Did he go there or from there?
Then we never loved so much,
And so we did not believe in miracles.
And a miracle happened - as it should be,
The conductor brought us glasses,
But you and I drank not tea, but wine,
We were driving from the south into the fogs.
Mikhail Guskov
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Happy birthday today
we are a glass
It has sixteen sides, only there are
one flaw
When heated it is impossible to hold
him in his hands
The only thing that protects you from burns is the cup holder.
on trains...
Since the time of the military with us and on the road
and in everyday life,
In 1943 they were released in Gus Khrustalny
"on the fly",
To make it lasting, we tried,
forgetting about design
So the glass is working, the edges
without distorting...
It is still used in catering today
we have,
Very durable, definitely won't break
him three times,
Happy birthday of course
we are a glass
And today we’ll pour vodka so that there’s
glass drunk...
Elena Samarina
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Interesting facts about the glass
There is a famous trick with a glass. If you fill a glass with water and then cover it with a piece of thick paper (such as a postcard),
By pressing the paper tightly against the glass, you can then turn it over without the water spilling out
A transparent glass can be used to demonstrate optical phenomena. For example, a spoon partially immersed in a glass of water is perceived as broken.
A Soviet faceted glass, half filled with water, can be placed “on edge”, that is, balanced in a position
when it touches the surface with one edge.
During the Soviet era, a faceted glass was also an indispensable attribute of the vodka drinking process. Since the bottle of vodka held 500 ml, the faceted glass, when drinking “for three,” was filled exactly five-sixths
elderly people, when they pick it up, experience an amazing feeling of nostalgia for the old days. Have you ever wondered who invented the faceted glass and why? Today we will try to shed light on this issue and bring clarity to it.
This item remains incredibly popular in our time. And the point here is not only in the established habit of use, but:
- as a product;
- its versatility;
- oddly enough, a wide range of applications.
Many have observed more than once how their grandmothers or parents use this item for other purposes: they crushed hard black pepper with it, used it as a measuring container. Every housewife knew the volume of a faceted glass. If you pour water into a glass exactly up to the rim, the volume will be 200 ml. If you add water to the very top, it will be exactly 250 ml. Now you know the exact volume of a faceted glass, and you can use it.
Faceted glass: history of creation and facts
It is very difficult to answer the question of who exactly came up with this glass shape and why. Some researchers hypothesize that the unique shape of the glass is the invention of the well-known sculptor Vera Mukhina. Everyone remembers her wonderful sculpture, which symbolizes the USSR - this is “Worker and Collective Farm Woman”. It so happened that in the period from 1943, just during the siege of Leningrad, Vera led an art glass workshop. For this reason, many skeptics consider her to be the author of a unique item. Unfortunately, there are no documents that would confirm its authorship. The faceted glass and its creation history remain a mystery.
Another question that haunts modern historians is when did the cut glass appear? Most are inclined to believe that it was created in 1943, which confirms the assumption that it was Mukhina who made it. When exactly the faceted glass appeared is as much a mystery as its authorship for this invention.
Geology professor Nikolai Slavyanov is the second candidate for the title of inventor of the faceted glass. He was a genius of his age and is known for his many services to his fatherland. Soviet metallurgy owes him a lot, because he made an undeniable contribution to its development. Many historians who carefully studied his diaries found striking images in them, namely, sketches of glasses with various edges. The diaries were preserved in perfect condition, which made it possible to thoroughly study them and draw certain conclusions. But, despite everything, his products had to be made of metal, but not glass.
What makes the question of who created the unique faceted glass even more unclear is the fact that Mukhina and Slavyanov knew each other. For this reason, it is impossible to say with certainty which of them is the author of this work and the true creator. More than half of historians and theorists claim that the idea of creating a faceted glass and developing its design belongs to Slavyanov. Mukhina was responsible for the actual production of the glass. This is the most plausible version, which adequately explains all the inconsistencies in this matter.
Alternative opinions
History points to several more names, the artist Malevich Kazimir and Mukhin. But this is unlikely, since direct facts that would indicate this do not exist today. There is an opinion from employees of the glass museum; they claim that a glass of this original shape was created as planned, according to the design of a new dishwasher from pre-war times.
Facts about the cut glass
- Interesting facts: do you know how many sides a classic cut glass has? The answer is simple: 14. Although, there are non-standard specimens, the number of faces of which is 8.
- Another interesting fact: historians do not understand where the word “glass” came from in our Russian language. For example, in the 17th century there were “dostakany” - these are dishes that were made or molded from dense small planks that were tightly connected to each other. Many believe that this is where the name came from.
- The faceted glasses were distinctive in volume and ranged from 50 to 250 g. Depending on this, the number of facets applied varied from 8-14. In the 80s, the production of classic glasses was transferred to foreign equipment. This led to a general disruption of precise production technology. The cut glass was distinguished by its special strength, but now it has lost it. The glass burst on the sides, which caused sincere surprise and indignation among consumers.
Who invented the cut glass remains a mystery of our century. One way or another, today you need to work very hard to find one that is made using the correct technology, according to GOST.
Nowadays, cut glass is no longer in such demand and is gradually becoming a rarity, kept more for collection. At one time, a cut glass was one of the most important attributes of everyday life in the Soviet Union. But few people know who invented the faceted glass. Let's try to figure this out.
So who invented the cut glass? Answering this question is quite problematic. Thus, it is known that glasses with edges were produced under Peter I and were produced at one of the oldest glass factories in the city of Gus-Khrustalny. Many have no doubt that faceted glasses and shot glasses were produced even before the revolution.
In 1905, Carl Faberge exhibited his still life “Proletarian Breakfast”. Interestingly, in reality all this is made of quite expensive materials. So the glass of vodka is crystal, the brick is made of jasper, the yolk is amber, the cigarette butt is made of a mixture of quartz and silver, the fly is also made of silver, as is a piece of newspaper. This work is estimated at more than $1 million.
In 1914, an automatic furnace appeared at the Urschel glass factory, thanks to which they also began producing cut glass.
We can see a faceted glass in the painting “Morning Still Life” by Petrov-Vodkin, which he painted in 1918. It can be seen that the glass has 12 sides.
An attentive reader will notice that this is not exactly the design that later became popular, so we can still assume that the faceted glass in its classic form for the USSR was invented by Vera Ignetyevna Mukhina, a famous Soviet sculptor who created the monumental sculpture “Worker” and a collective farmer." There are also rumors that Kazamir Malevich helped her in developing the design.
Vera Ignatievna Mukhina was fascinated by glass in the late 40s. She was tasked with inventing a new shape for glasses in such a way that in catering canteens they could be easily washed in a dishwashing machine, and also make them more durable. You may notice that Mukhina's glass has a reinforcing ring on the top, which you will not see on other faceted glasses before.
The first faceted glass was produced on September 11, 1943 at the same plant in the city of Gus-Khrustalny. A standard glass has 16 sides, but there are other variations with 12, 14, 16 and 18 sides; they are less common with an odd number of sides, for example, the 17th, because it was technologically inconvenient to produce them. The volume of the faceted glass is 250 milliliters up to the rim.
The volume of glasses could be: 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 350 milliliters. The price varied from 7 to 14 kopecks and was indicated at the bottom of the glass by squeezing.
The people called him “Granchak”. He's "big-lipped". He is also “Malinkovsky”. He is “Mukhinsky”. But actually, this is a Soviet glass - multifaceted, like the truth.
It turns out that we owe the expression “as simple as three kopecks” to a cut glass. The number of sides for this honorary inhabitant of railway buffets was different: 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. At one time they even produced glasses with 17 sides, but it was more difficult to make dishes with an odd number of sides, so they settled on the optimal 16. The price of the product depended directly on the number of faces. The simplest, 10-grain, cost 3 kopecks, the 16-grain cost seven, the “luxury” 20-grain cost as much as 14.
Although a cut glass is a classic symbol of the Soviet era, it can be seen in Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s 1918 Morning Still Life.
Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin. Morning still life
According to many researchers, faceted glass appeared back in the time of Peter I, and was produced by the glass factory in the city of Gus-Khrustalny. Then the glass was called “granchak” and was a newfangled alternative to Russian wooden mugs. The edges made it durable and prevented it from rolling around on the table. When the new product was presented to the king, he did not believe in the reliability of the glass and heartily slammed it on the floor. The glass broke. But the reformer appreciated the idea and allegedly said: “There will be a glass.” But the boyars didn’t hear enough: “Shatter glasses.” Since then, the tradition of breaking dishes for good luck allegedly began.
Peter I in an English engraving from 1858
Despite their dislike for everything bourgeois, Soviet engineers appreciated the glass, if only “upgrading it.” Its strength was given by the shape and thickness of the glass. The latter was produced at extremely high temperatures - 1400–1600 °C. And besides, they burned him twice. Well, at first they even added lead to glass.
By the way, about the exterior. It is believed that the unique form was invented by the Soviet sculptor Vera Mukhina, the author of the famous memorial “Worker and Collective Farm Woman” (hence one of the popular names for the glass is “Mukhinsky”).
In the 1980s, when the technology for making faceted stones was disrupted (production simply switched to foreign standards), gossip spread about the machinations of enemies who encroached on the shrine. Glasses began not only to break, but to burst and even explode.
A faceted glass was not just a piece of utensils - it was a “mandala” of the era, from which many well-known aphorisms came. Here is at least the expression “to think for three.” The fact is that a standard faceted glass (counting from the rim) held exactly 200 g. A half-liter of vodka did not fit into two glasses, but it would fit neatly into three. Therefore, it was more convenient for the three of us to drink.
The habit of “thinking for three” has entered the world
The Moskovskaya vodka brand appeared back in 1894
By the way, about the rim. The first faceted glasses did not have it, so it was very inconvenient to drink from them: to prevent the contents from spilling, the glass had to be pressed tightly to the lips. When the rim around the edge did appear, the original model of the glass was called “lipped” to distinguish it from the second. But the “Malenkov glass” became a glass in those days when the Soviet Minister of Defense Georgy Malenkov promised certain categories of military personnel a ration of 200 g of vodka for lunch (for non-drinkers, the norm was replaced by a similar amount of tobacco or sugar). The decree ordered a long life, but people's memory is immortal.
In Soviet times, vending machines selling sparkling water could often be found on the street or in public places. In Moscow alone there were 10,000 of them
