Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov (Russian: ???? ????´?????? ??????´?) (1831–1898) created Russia's leading pre-revolutionary vodka company, an antecedent of both Smirnoff and Smirnov vodka.
He was born a serf in Kayurovo, a rural Russian village, on 9 January 1831, and rose to become one of the wealthiest men in Russia.