In its nearly 300-year history, this Russian "kettle" has metamorphosed from an expensive household item and family heirloom into an object hidden away to collect dust during the post-Soviet period, ...

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Doha, Qatar – Mohammed Ali, a restaurateur in Qatar’s capital Doha, tells a story about a female customer who would come to his shop every day with a flask to have it filled with karak tea. One day, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Donor from Ontario, Canada, brings 1859 silver samovar honoring Famine hero Dr. Dan Donovan back to Skibbereen Heritage ...

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 ...