2.11.2017

Cut the Cognac and Marsalkka Drinks

Marshal's drink poured always until glass edges, and a little over.
The roots are and comes Marshall's Mannerheim time of the Russian Army service, where the officers' employee benefits includes one vodka-drink at lunch, and two drink to dinner time.

Of course, these employment benefit had to be taken, so these "statutory" drink poureds always (full blobs) fulls glases and little more...

Rickety and poured surface drinks was a difficult place many Marski's guests. Guests who enjoyed their drinks with trembling hands, often heard bad cleavage from bad performance.
Successful annulment of Ryypi also revealed the stability of the shooting gun - the vibrating guests are hardly from the officer's office!

The recipe was developed by Mannerheim's adjutant Ragnar Grönvall.
Marsk's recipe's recipe is quite simple (war times drink-mix, no available): Today mix
- 1 l of aquavite
- 2 cl vermouth
- 1 cl of gin
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                                                        cut cognac  (today)
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Marskin ryyppy kaadetaan aina piripintaan. 
Tapa juontaa juurensa Venäjän armeijasta, missä upseerien työsuhde-etuihin kuului yksi vodkaryyppy lounaalla ja kaksi ryyppyä päivällisellä. 
Työsuhde-edusta oli tietenkin otettava kaikki irti, joten ”lakisääteiset” ryyppylasilliset kaadettiin aina piripintaan.


Piripintaan kaadettu ryyppy oli monille Marskin vieraille hankala paikka – vapisevin käsin juomansa kumonneet vieraat saivat usein kuulla ivallisia lohkaisuja huonosta suorituksestaan. 
Ryypyn onnistunut kumoaminen kertoi toisaalta myös ampumakäden vakaudesta – täriseväkätiset vieraat tuskin olivat upseeriainesta!

Reseptin kehitti Mannerheimin adjutantti Ragnar Grönvall.
Marskin ryypyn resepti on varsin yksinkertainen (sota-ajan sekoituksia ei enää ole):
- 1 l akvaviittia
- 2 cl vermuttia
- 1 cl giniä
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Cutting a cognac means mixing cognac and neutral bright wine so that they cognac aromas keeps

Marsalkka Mannerheim offered a 75-year-old birthday-gest, one bottle to alcohol, who distributed to five men, 
The official dose being 10 cl for each adult front man.

The total composition of a supplemental feast dose:
- 60 grams of sandwich cakes
- 870 grams of rice-grains
- 20 grams of milk powder
- 40 grams of raisins
- 15 grams of powdered powder
- 15 grams of coffee substitute (Grain, beans and roots mixed)
- 20 grams of sandwich sugar
- 5 cigarettes
- 10 cent-liter spirits

A total of 476,486 pieces were distributed and they paid over 6.5 million marks.
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Konjakin leikkaamisella tarkoitetaan konjakin ja neutraalin kirkkaan viinan sekoittaminen keskenään niin, että lopputuotteessa säilyy konjakin aromit.

Marsalkka Mannerheim tarjosi 75-vuotissyntymäpäivänään pullon alkoholia jaettavaksi viiteen mieheen, eli virallinen annos oli 10 cl jokaiselle täysi-ikäiselle rintamamiehelle.

Ylimääräisen juhla-annoksen koostumus kokonaisuudessaan:
- 60 grammaa voileipäkeksejä
- 870 grammaa riisiryynejä
- 20 grammaa maitojauhetta
- 40 grammaa rusinoita
- 15 grammaa puurokastikejauhetta
- 15 grammaa kahvinkorviketta
- 20 grammaa palasokeria
- 5 savuketta
- 10 senttilitraa pirtua

Annoksia jaettiin yhteensä 476 486 kappaletta ja ne maksoivat yli 6,5 miljoonaa markkaa.
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Education time

The Cadet Corps was a state-run military school educating boys of aristocratic families for careers in the Military of the Grand Duchy of Finland and in the Russian Armed Forces. Besides his mother tongue, Swedish, Mannerheim learned to speak Finnish, Russian, French, German, and English.

The disciplinary problems continued.
Mannerheim heartily disliked the school and the narrow social circles in Hamina. He rebelled by going on leave without permission in 1886, for which he was expelled from the Finnish Cadet Corps. Mannerheim next attended the Helsinki Private Lyceum, and passed his university entrance examinations in June 1887. 

Now he had a better school report to show than the one from the Finnish Cadet Corps. He wrote to his godmother, Baroness Alfhild Scalon de Coligny, who had connections at the Russian court, to help him enter the Nicholas Cavalry School. 

His real wish was to join the Chevalier Guard; but his relatives balked at the costs, so he dropped it. Mannerheim's godmother invited him to her husband's country house, Lukianovka, in summer 1887. There Gustaf worked to improve his Russian. While in Russia, he spent some time at a military camp at Chuguyev, which strengthened his decision to choose a career in the military.

From 1887 to 1889, Mannerheim attended the Nicholas Cavalry School in St. Petersburg, In January 1891, Mannerheim was transferred to the Chevalier Guard Regiment in St Petersburg. In 1892, Mannerheim's godmother, Countess Alfhild Scalon de Coligny, arranged for him to be married to a wealthy and beautiful noble lady of Russian-Serbian heritage, Anastasia Arapova (1872–1936).


Mannerheim and she had two daughters, Anastasie (1893–1978) and Sophie (1895–1963). Mannerheim separated from his wife in 1902, and the couple divorced in 1919. Mannerheim served in the Imperial Chevalier Guard until 1904. Mannerheim specialised as an expert on horses, buying stud stallions and horses for the army. In 1903, he was put in charge of a display squadron and became a member of the equestrian training board of the cavalry regiments.
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Mannerheim in Service Russian Tsar's Army

Mannerheim volunteered for duty in the Russo-Japanese war in 1904. In October 1904, he was transferred to the 52nd Nezhin Dragoon Regiment in Manchuria, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was promoted to Colonel for his bravery in the Battle of Mukden in 1905 and briefly commanded an irregular unit of Hong Huzi, 
a local militia, on an exploratory mission into Inner Mongolia.

When Mannerheim returned to St. Petersburg, he was asked if he would like to make a journey through Turkestan to Beijing as a secret intelligence-officer. General Palitsyn, Chief of the Russian General Staff, wanted accurate, on-the-ground intelligence about the reform and modernization of the Qing Dynasty. 
The Russians wanted to know the military feasibility of invading Western China, including the provinces of Xinjiang and Gansu, in their struggles with Britain for control of Inner Asia known as "The Great Game".

After much deliberation, Mannerheim, disguised as an ethnographic collector, joined the French archeologist Paul Pelliot's expedition in Samarkand in Russian Turkestan (now Uzbekistan). From the terminus of the Trans-Caspian Railway in Andijan, the expedition started in July 1906, but Mannerheim spent the greater part of the expedition alone, after quarrelling with Pelliot over several logistic issues on their way to Kashgar in China's Xinjiang province.

With a small caravan, including a Cossack guide, Chinese interpreter, and Uyghur cook, Mannerheim first trekked to Khotan in search of British and Japanese spies. Upon returning to Kashgar, he headed north into the Tian Shan range, surveying passes and gauging the attitudes of Kalmyk, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz tribes towards the Han Chinese. Mannerheim arrived in the provincial capital of Urumqi, and then headed east to Turpan, Hami, and Dunhuang in Gansu province. He followed the Great Wall of China through the Hexi Corridor, and investigated a mysterious tribe known as Yugurs. From Lanzhou, the provincial capital, Mannerheim headed south into Tibetan territory and to the lamasery of Labrang, where he was stoned by xenophobic monks.

Mannerheim eventually arrived in Beijing in July 1908, where he worked on his military intelligence report. He returned to St. Petersburg via Japan and the Trans-Siberian Express. His military report was a detailed account of modernization in the late Qing Dynasty, covering education, military reforms, Han colonization of ethnic borderlands, mining and industry, railway construction, the influence of Japan, and opium smoking. Mannerheim's report outlined the likely tactical uses of a Russian invasion of Xinjiang, and Xinjiang's possible role as a bargaining chip in a putative future war with China.

After Mannerheim's return to Russia in 1909, he was appointed to command the 13th Vladimir Uhlan Regiment at Mińsk Mazowiecki in Poland. The following year, Mannerheim was promoted to major general and was posted as the commander of the Life Guard Uhlan Regiment of His Majesty in Warsaw. Eventually, Mannerheim became part of the Imperial entourage and was appointed cavalry brigade commander.

At the beginning of World War I, Mannerheim served as commander of the Guards Cavalry Brigade, and fought on the Austro-Hungarian and Romanian fronts. 
In December 1914, after distinguishing himself in combat against the Austro-Hungarian forces, Mannerheim was awarded the Order of St. George, 4th class. He said after receiving this award, "Now I can die in peace." In March 1915, Mannerheim was appointed to command the 12th Cavalry Division.

Mannerheim received leave to visit Finland and St. Petersburg in early 1917, and witnessed the outbreak of the February Revolution. After returning to the front, he was promoted to lieutenant general in April 1917 (the promotion was backdated to February 1915), and took command of the 6th Cavalry Corps in the summer of 1917. However, Mannerheim fell out of favour with the new government, who regarded him as not supporting the revolution, and was relieved of his duties. He decided to retire and returned to Finland.
                   

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