Biography
I am a drinks industry professional with more than 19 years of experience in spirits marketing and education. The deep interest in the history of distilled alcohol that I developed during nearly two decades in the liquor business eventually led me to embark on a PhD program at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, where I am currently writing a thesis on the origins of Russian vodka. My research interests more generally concern social and economic history of alcohol as a whole, as well as its many meanings in cultural and social rituals.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
External PhD candidate | Department of History
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Work
- Alexandr Gorokhovskiy (2025) - Intellectual ‘Reflux’ Russian Orthodoxy and the Transmission of Distillation Technology into Muscovy - Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, 14 (1), 59-84 - doi: 10.1484/J.JMMS.5.150991 - [link]
- Alexandr Gorokhovskiy (2024) - The Dawn of Vodka: Distilled Spirits in Sixteenth-Century Muscovy - Sixteenth Century Journal, 55 (3-4), 841-868
