Treasury Directives Alexander II Administration
3.50 Rub / bucket
Price per 12.3L bucket (vedro) set by tax-farmers.
65%
Gendarme force deployed against anti-drinking brotherhoods.
15.0 M Puds
Imperial emergency grain reserves stored to mitigate famine.
Abolish Tax-Farming (Excise System)
Vodka Budget Share
127.72M Silver Rubles
Military Budget Coverage
88.5%
Imperial Army & Navy
Illicit Samogon Share
Black market moonshine
Treasury Status
Fragile High-Dependence
Loss Risk: 45.00M Rubles
Fiscal Pipeline Visualizer
Real-time Flow: Peasantry ➔ Treasury ➔ Imperial Military
1850–1863 Revenue Trajectory & Counterfactual Projection
🏛️ Imperial Fiscal Ledger Analysis (1859)
Year: 1859 Baseline
In 1859, the Tsarist government collected 127.72 Million Silver Rubles from vodka tax farming (otkup), comprising exactly 41.2% of total state budget revenues (310M Rubles). This single revenue stream funded 88.5% of the Imperial Russian Military.