Tea, the national beverage, is made in metal urns called samovars.
Around us, the market erupts with fifteen thousand people buying and selling everything from kitchen sinks and samovars to airconditioners, camels and carpets.
Because you guzzle sixteen samovars full a day, that's why you put on an air of importance.
Visitors who made purchases were entitled to enter the drawing to win bicycles, shoes, coats, musical instruments, gramophones, cosmetics, samovars, and other prizes.
The company brilliantly captures the feel of the master's writing without having to resort to big dresses and gleaming samovars.
We'd expected modern and clean, with curtains, carpets and polished samovars, happy, helpful provodniks and reputedly awful food.
