Hospitality
Year: 2021

Abstract During the late 1940s, several prominent vintners at Massandra—the former crown estate outside of Yalta—were imprisoned on trumped up charges. Unusual their fate was not—thousands of Soviet citizens met similar demises in the post-war years—but the reasons why they came to the attention of the procuracy and the police in the first place. Vintners were participants in a ‘gift economy’, in which they used the wine they produced to celebrate old alliances and create new ones. Their behavio