vodky

The said Timofei is a gentleman who annually builds unto himself on the icy roadside above mentioned, half-way between Cronstadt and St. Petersburg, and right in the line of traffic, a small cabin, wherefrom he dispenses everything known to the Russian mind in the form of stimulant, from vodky at two kopeks the glass, to Pommery Sec at eight roubles a bottle.

1893 January, Gerard Anderson, “Ice Yachting in the Gulf of Finland”, in James H. Worman, editor, Outing: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Sport, Travel and Recreation, volume XXI, New York, N.Y.: […]; London: […]: The Outing Company, Limited, page 299, column 1

Over the table hung a lamp with an embroidered shade brightly lighting up the arrangements for tea underneath, a bottle of vodky, cold refreshments, and the brick walls hung with eikons and pictures.[…]At the moment when Nikita came in from the stable she was pouring out some vodky into a thick glass and offering it to Vassili.[…]Now the smell of vodky, especially then when he was half dead with cold, troubled Nikita seriously.

1895, A. Hulme Beaman, transl., Master and Man, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, translation of original by Leo Tolstoy, pages 64–65 and 67