Tavern, alehouse and pub as the source of the restaurant: Historiographic review of materials from Ufa district of the 17th century
Authors:   Ufa State Petroleum Technological University, Khairetdinova Olga A. 
Published: October 2024

This article is devoted to the problem of the development of leisure establishments in Ufa district during the first century after voluntary entry of Bashkiria into Russia. The purpose of this article is to determine what is known in modern historical science about the spread and peculiarities of drinking industry penetration into Ufa district. At the beginning of the article there is a historiographic review of materials on the formation and development of the accommodation and catering services in Russia since ancient times. Special attention is paid to the works of historians Ivan Pryzhov and William Pokhlebkin, ethnographer Alexander Tereshchenko, lawyer and public figure Dmitriy Borodin, politician Afanasy Petrishchev, etc. Based on these studies, the author concludes that the issues related to the development of catering and drinking industry since ancient times in Russia, as well as with the development of technologies for the production of strong alcohol, the impact of drinking on the state budget and alcoholization of the population have been studied quite well. Thus, the author found that for a long time, until the end of the XVII century, the only type of public leisure facilities was an alehouse, which was later renamed into a pub. At the end of the 17th century, a wine-cellar appeared in Moscow like a new kind of place, where one could buy or consume foreign grape wines together with snacks. But such an innovation did not reach the province. In the second part of the article, the author analyzes the materials related to the problem of integrating the annexed territories of Bashkortostan into the legal and administrative system of Russia. Of particular interest to the author were Bulat Aznabaev’s, Rose Bukanova’s, Natalia Demidova’s materials about the history of Bashkortostan, on the basis of which conclusions were drawn about the peculiarities of Moscow's interaction with the indigenous population of Bashkortostan, on the spread of agriculture and distillery in Bashkir lands. Next, the author made an attempt to search for historical research on the development of public leisure facilities in Bashkiria in the 17th century. At this stage, only one research made by Bulat Aznabaev was discovered. Therefore, the author concludes that so far little attention is paid to this issue in the scientific community. As a result of the review of research on the subject matter of the article related to Ufa distric of the 17th century, the author formulated two conclusions: 1. Bashkirs, who were nomadic and practiced Islam, were opponents of strong alcohol. 2. The indigenous population had enjoyed the patrimonial right to land, had not engaged in land and had not transfered patrimonial lands to the new settlers for long time after joining the Russian state. A small number of Russian settlements with limited land resources were formed in the region. The raw materials required for the production of bread wine in the county were scarce. Single pubs / alehouses have appeared, but only in places where immigrants from other regions of the Russian state lived.