A samovar, a tall metal container that heats water to make tea, is well known in Russia. The anatomy of the samovar, first made in Russia about 1780, is clever: A metal — copper, brass, bronze, silver ...

A samovar, a tall metal container that heats water to make tea, is well-known in Russia but often is confusing to browsing customers at an antique show. The anatomy of the samovar, first made in ...

A samovar, a tall metal container that heats water to make tea, is well known in Russia, but often is confusing to browsing customers at an antique show. The anatomy of the samovar, first made in ...

A samovar, a tall metal container that heats water to make tea, is well-known in Russia but often is confusing to browsing customers at an antique show. The anatomy of the samovar, first made in ...

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 ...

For as long as I can remember, the golden samovar — a Russian teapot of sorts — has rested somewhere high in our home. In our first house, it sat imposingly on a shelf above the staircase. In our ...

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 ...

There are two drinks most people associate with Russia — vodka and tea, prepared in a giant hot-water urn known as a samovar. Yet while vodka may have actually originated in Russia (Poland is another ...

There are two drinks most people associate with Russia — vodka and tea, prepared in a giant hot-water urn known as a samovar. Yet while vodka may have actually originated in Russia (Poland is another ...