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Anders Tørneskog
 
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Default Russian Vodka-Can you read Russian?


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> Friends brought us a bottle of vodka from Moscow. The label is all in

Russian .
> It appears to commerate the 850 annivesary of the founding of Moscow.

There is
> an arch like structure painted on the front of the bottle and it frames a
> drawing of Russians spires that is painted on the back of the bottle.

The
> name (as best I can type it on a US computer) is A-o-(the symbol for
> Pi)-r-o-p-y-k-n-n. There is a mark over the last n.Can you help me

determine
> what it is? Thanks

Hi again
It would appear to be (prince Jurij Vladimirovitj) Dol-gorukij. The
russian D is ? which could be misread for an A.
This prince was the founder of Moscow in 1152.
hth
Anders