However, in accordance with the allegations of many scholars, it had been distilled even earlier in the 8th century in Poland
The word "vodka" was recorded for the first time in 1405 in Akta Grodzkie,[7] the court documents from the Palatinate of Sandomierz in Poland.
According to a legend,
around 1430, a monk called Isidore from Chudov Monastery inside the Moscow Kremlin made a recipe of the first Russian vodka.
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