2019-10-08
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That you can buy on the ruble in different eras?
The motor trade
In the beginning of XIII century the Novgorod merchants used in the calculation of 200-gram silver bullion in the form of sticks, if necessary, sawing them in half. While the exterior of the ingots resembled a currency of Kievan Rus, the hryvnia, in Novgorod they were called rubles. Now the silver ingot of the same weight, worth more than ten thousand.
The number of products that you can buy on the ruble, dependent on yield. For example, the 1314 year has been hungry for Pskov: one ruble were released about 9.5 liters of rye (in Russia bulk commodities sold by volume, not weight). In Novgorod the prices were almost twice lower for the same ruble has already produced more than 15 litres of rye.
Of course, the market traded and the finished bread. In the XIV century baked loaf on the Novgorod market was worth about 15 cents. That is, the ruble could buy six covrig and receive ten cents (about 20 grams of silver) back.
A pound of ham in those same years, was worth about 32 kopecks, that is, the ruble, a resident of Novgorod received little more than a kilogram. Oil was selling pots — at 60 cents apiece, so for the ruble you'd gave half of the pot and ten cents back.
Wholesale trade
In the XVII century the Russians (those who could afford it) tried to purchase products in wholesale quantities to suffice for the year. And not only to escape from hunger: crop failure in the price of products increased and a part of the reserves can be profitable to sell.
In those years, four pounds of rye flour (one pood — 16.3 kg) was worth about 30 cents, which means that for one ruble you were immediately weighed 218 pounds. Butter was much more expensive at 60 cents per peck. So, on the ruble gave 27.3 per kilogram of oil. The same price cost the three major sturgeon or four year old bull.
The chicken cost a lot cheaper — just a penny per head, the ruble — 100 live birds. For the sheep asked for from 12 to 18 cents, and the winner of the ruble, if desired, can become the owner of the whole herd.
In the same ruble stacked wishing to dress up. The sheepskin coat was worth 30 cents, and sable skins — 70 cents. Shirts were sold for ten cents, the boots (depending on quality) from 25 to 50 cents a pair. Cap on his head six to eight cents.
Inflation in the era of Catherine II and after
In 1760 a pound of bread cost 86 cents for a ruble weighed almost 19 pounds. But just 13 years later for the same money gave only 7.5 kilograms of bread, and after 15 years of just 2.3 pounds.
At the beginning of the reign of Catherine the great on the ruble could be good to drink a bucket of vodka with a volume of 12.3 liters cost 85 cents, which means that the ruble poured 14,5 liters. However, later the price of vodka has grown in the same way as the grain.
Another pleasant prospect for the owner of the ruble in those years — to go on a journey. For one ruble, anyone could drive 100 miles (about 200 kilometers) in a post-chaise.
In the nineteenth century, the depreciation of the Russian currency continued. The ruble is the end of the 1830s- a kilo and a half of freshwater fish or 2.5 kilograms of beef. For the same money in the market was offered four dozen eggs or kilogram of oil. The same cost impact straw (66 pounds) or half of the hay (about 33 pounds).
Fed the end of an era
The first years of the twentieth century until the beginning of the First world war historians consider to be the best in the history of pre-revolutionary Russia. Inflation is almost not there, and the prices allowed almost every family to eat the way I want, not how it is.
The ruble gave 25 loaves of rye bread (400 grams each) or 14 loaves of white (300 grams), 6.5 kg new potatoes or 20 kilograms last year. Spending a ruble, they could return home with five pounds of pasta or take a pound coffee beans. Two dozen eggs or two kg of cottage cheese — also a ruble.
With regard to alcohol: the ruble for a liter and a half state-owned vodka liter or more of high quality, double cleaning. Mug of beer with a volume of 0.6 liters cost 10 cents, so that the visitor is a beer with a rouble in his pocket could 'download' at once six liters.
Although smartphones in those years was not, for the money it is possible to communicate with relatives or friends in the distance. For the ruble it was possible to send 20 words by Telegraph, 25 emails, or talk for two minutes on the phone.
Source: https://ria.ru
