samovar

Our dear Samovar will be delighted." (He used to call the Countess Lidia Ivanovna, well known in society, a samovar, because she was always bubbling over with excitement.) "She has been continually asking after you.

The little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a pleasure to herself and to all around her.

'Surely it is for some welcome guest beyond the common that you have had the samovar [Tea-urn.] thus prepared?' And he smote her lightly on the cheek."

The workmen's cook, who had had a sleep after dinner and was now getting the samovar ready for her husband, turned cheerfully to Nikita, and infected by his hurry began to move as quickly as he did, got down his miserable worn-out cloth coat from the stove where it was drying, and began hurriedly shaking it out and smoothing it down.

There are souvenir shops lining Sheki's main streets selling ceramics, samovars and scarves made of the town's signature product: silk.

Pandit's poetic journey, therefore, sends him in two directions, one toward a direct confrontation with the security forces like "Death in February," where he writes, "Obituaries / that seek asylum from winter drought / in lost samovars of salted tea / at funerals to thirsty mourners." Another way is to write of exiled poets like the Kashmiri English poet Agha Shahid Ali and spell it out: "I know I want to write a poem, but the futility of it /1 can't read, you can't read." "What does one do when plastic rainbows / pellet your lamenting lungs?

For the coffee and tea service, even if our silver Samovars were Victorian, we paired them with blue Japanese porcelain cups and saucers with dragon patterns for an Orientalist twist.

He engraves decorative plates, vases, bowls, samovars and other similar things in exquisite designs reminiscent of the Mughal era.

Coming in the second half of the year, this location will house the inaugural TWG Tea Museum, showcasing vintage artifacts and antique tea wares such as Russian Samovars and enamel teapots.

The richly illustrated cover of the book depicts a man pouring a cup of tea with samovars and teapots on shelves.