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The
museum " the Tula samovars " , branch of Museum
Association " Tula regional historical-architectural and
literary museum " was open in 1990 on Mendeleevskaia
street, 8 in the house that was built in 1910 – 1911 per
design of architect V.N.Sirotkin.
The basis of an exposition of a museum was made with the
collection of samovars collected in various years in
association "TOIALM". The exposition of a museum
which consists of three halls, acquaints visitors with history
of begining and development of one of the most known Tula
crafts – Samovar making. The first hall tells about Samovar
manufacturing in Tula in XVIII - XIX centuries. Among unique
samples of the end of XVIII century - "sbitennik"
which was the predecessor of a samovar, a pot for preparation
of sbiten - a drink made from different types of grass,
spices, honey. Sbitennik was made by first Tula samovar
workshop of Lisitsyns. Samovars of first half of
the XIX century presented by samples of Somovs factory,
Malikovs facotry, etc. At those times samovars mostly were
made in the form of a keg, a decorative vase, a crater. There
were the coffee pots samovars, portable samovars for travel;
“zharovoi” with kerosene furnace; samovars "Parichko"
with a removable jug. Since second half of the XIX century
Tula becomes the largest supplier of samovars. The Tula
samovars have penetrated into all corners of Russia and
outside of Russia as well. Tula samovars were presented at
every All-Russia and international exhibition. In an
exposition of a museum there are the medals received by
N.Batashevyms at the World's fairs in Paris (1889), Chicago
(1893), London (1909), at the All-Russia exhibitions in Moscow
(1882), Nizhni Novgorod (1896). The second hall is presented
by samovars manufactured in Tula in second half XIX –
beginning of XX century. It exhibits the products of “The
Association of Steam samovars factories of successors of
V.S.Batashev in Tula " - one
of the largest and famous Tula’s factories of XX century.
Exposition contains memorial items of members of the Batashev
family: portrait
of A.S.Batashev - one of brothers of the Batashev
family. Among the most unique products of factory are 5 tiny
samovars presented in 1909 from Batashevs to the children of
Russian Emperor Nikolay II. Samovars of the Soviet period
between 1920 and 1940 presented by interesting samples: a vase
" the Turkish hookah ", a samovar-vase gift to
S.I.Sepanov, director of the Tula ammuntion factory in
1930th; also samovar presented as a gift to Stalin
in 1949 for his 70th year anniversary. The
exposition of the third hall acquaints visitors with products
of a machine-building factory "Stamp" carrying name
of B.L.Vannikov, the only factory in Tula making samovars now
days. There are samples of “zharovoi” samovar(with wood or
coal furnace), electric combined samovar, and also samovars
with the art painting and decorations manufactured in
different year.
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