I don't know what Yuri was going to talk about when he asked Sergei to come, but I knew they wouldn't be idle. I playfully asked to stay in my room and rest.

Yuri clearly understood my intentions, he carefully took me to the kitchen and pointed to the refrigerator and said, I will eat whatever I want to eat myself, he and Sergey are in the study, and I can call him at any time if I need anything.

I watched as Yuri closed the door to the study on the other side of the living room.

I thought to myself, I don't want to know about their frightening things!

God forbid! Our company will no longer deal with those arrogant Turkish and Armenian bandits!

Even if you have anything to do with this kind of person, it's best not to get involved in our department.

I comforted myself as I toured Yuri's father's modest home.

The furnishings here are almost identical to those in my aunt's house, except that there is not a single new modern appliance to be seen, and there are not only tape recorders that I saw when I was a child, but also older radios and washing machines. All this makes me curious about Yuri's father.

I imagine that the old people who live here seem to prefer to live in their own memories.

In the kitchen, in the center of the red and white plaid dining table is a large samovar called Самовар in Russian.

I was moved by this traditional samovar with a Russian twist.

I looked at it closely, in my memory. When I was a child, my father used to buy a Russian-style samovar for the family, but before we could use it, my father's friend cheekily asked him to leave.

I have the impression that the samovar in our house is silver, not as big as this. My mother, who saw the samovar for the first time, smiled and said, where is this like a teapot, it is simply a trophy!

Now let me tell you about the tea drinking habits of the Russians!

China is the homeland of tea and the birthplace of tea culture, and Chinese have a long history of drinking tea.

Although the history of tea drinking in Russians is not too long, tea occupies an important place in Russian national culture.

Russians not only love to drink tea, but also gradually create and have their own unique tea culture.

Historically, tea was introduced directly from China to Russia via Siberia without the intervention of Western European countries.

According to some historical books and encyclopedias, the first time Russians came into contact with tea was in 1638.

At that time, the Russian nobleman Vasily Starkov, who was a friendly envoy, gave the Mongolian khan some raccoon dog skins on the orders of the Tsar, and the Mongolian khan returned the gift of 4 poods (about 64 kilograms) of tea.

After tasting it, the tsar fell in love with the drink, and from then on the tea was grandly ascended to the royal palace and then to the noble family.

From the 70s of the 17th century, Moscow merchants started the business of importing tea from China.

Importing tea from China is a long way, difficult to transport, and limited in quantity. Therefore, tea became a typical "urban luxury drink" in Russia in the 17th and 18th centuries, and its range of drinkers was limited to the nobles and wealthy people of the upper class, and tea drinking once became a symbol of status and wealth.

It was not until the end of the 18th century that the tea market expanded from Moscow to a few provinces, such as the then Makariev, now the Nizhny Novgorod region.

By the beginning of the 19th century, tea drinking was prevalent among all classes of the Russian population.

However, in fact, the relevant historical sources prove that the Russians first came into contact with tea even earlier, in 1567.

Petrov and Yaryshev, two Cossack chieftains who had visited China, described an unknown and exotic Chinese drink that was already popular in southeastern Siberia and Central Asia at that time.

But probably because the description of the Cossack chieftain did not attract the attention of the tsarist nobility, this history is also little known.

Different ethnic groups have different tea drinking customs.

From the perspective of tea drinking form, Chinese tea drinking has always been a cup of fragrant tea, savoring it slowly.

Russians drink tea with large plates of cakes, scones, pies, sweet breads, biscuits, sugar cubes, jams, honey and other "refreshments".

From a functional point of view, Chinese drink tea mostly to quench thirst, refresh or entertain guests.

Russians often drink tea as a supplement for three meals or often as a substitute for one of the three meals.

Of course, it is essential to talk about the world while drinking tea, and Russians regard tea drinking as a way of communication, and the best communication effect is achieved while drinking tea.

Drinking tea alone can give yourself an opportunity to meditate and have a kind of communication between "me" and "me".

I studied this samovar with great interest, and it is really a lot old, but it seems to have been well preserved.