Wedro

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The (the) Wedro ( Russian ведро ; literally bucket ) was a Russian measure of volume and grain and corresponded to the measure of bucket . The measure had small regional differences. The measure has been known since 1280.

Sorokowoi was another name for the barrel-sized Russian volume measure of bochka for liquids. The size of the Sorokovoi drink, the same size as Botschka, was divided up to the Wedro.

  • 1 Sorokowoi = 13 ⅓ anchors = 40 Wedra / bucket and then continue accordingly as Botschka in 160 Tschertwerki = 320 Kruschki = 25,600 Parisian cubic inches = 507 ¼ liters
  • 1 Wedro = 10 fabrics (old 8 fabrics)

It was an old dimensional relationship

  • 1 Wedro = 2 Half Wedro = 8 Stoof = 16 Kruschka = 621 Parisian cubic inches

See also

literature

  • Johann Gottlieb Georgi: Attempt to describe the Russian imperial residence city of St. Petersburg and the peculiarities of the area. Carl Wilhelm Müller, St. Petersburg 1790, p. 211.
  • Johann Wilhelm Detenhoff: St. Petersburg Mercantile Notes. Chancellery of the Police Ministry, St. Petersburg 1819, p. 173.
  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 371.

Individual evidence

  1. Magnus Georg Paucker: Contents overview of the work on measure, weight and coin of the Russian Empire and its German Baltic countries. Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 1832, p. 9.
  2. Georg Thomas Flügel, Johann Ernst Liebhold: Explained cours slip and comparison of the weights and cubits of the most excellent trading places. Jäger book, paper and map dealer, Frankfurt am Main 1813, p. 222.