The giant, metal, hot-water urns are at the center of Russian tea culture — and national identity. How that came to be may have as much to do... There are two drinks most people associate with Russia ...

Gingerbread, samovars, weapons, Belev pastila - Tula Region has been famous for all these things since ancient times. It is also famous for ‘The Steel Flea’ by Leskov. Leo Tolstoy was born and lived ...

A late 19th-century samovar made in Tula, Russia, a metalworking town south of Moscow. The very first samovar factory opened in Tula in 1778. As demand for samovars grew, the town became almost ...