🤗 Доброе утро, товарищи!

🔻 Russians congratulate each other on Victory Day on Jason Statham's social networks.

🔻The British actor posted a photo on banned Instagram at night. The post was not related to the holiday, however, Russian users wrote about 8 thousand comments.

🔻Communicating in Russian under Statham’s publications and leaving supposedly his quotes there has become a trend among Russians since 2023.

🔻Check my early post about it▶️here

Source: RT на русском

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• Самовар (самовары)
  [sa-ma-var (sa-ma-va-ry)]

🔻This masculine noun literally means 'self-brewer' from само (self) + варить (to boil).

🔻Having become one of the symbols of the Russian world, samovar was not originally invented in Russia. For the first time containers for boiling water  appeared in China, but they did not have a tap for pouring water.

🔻The first samovars appeared in Russia in the late 1730s in the city Tula which became the Russian 'samovar capital'.

🔻This is where the Russian proverb comes from:
• Со своим самоваром в Тулу не ездят.
[sa sva-im sa-ma-va-ram f tu-lu ni yez'-dyat]
🇬🇧 You don't bring sand to the beach.

🔻There are also samovars for one glass - they are also called 'egoist'.

🔻For the children of Emperor Nicholas II, in 1909, Tula craftsmen made 5 small (1 glass) samovars.

🔻During Easter week, egg-shaped samovars were placed on the table.

⏺Video: Samovar Museum in Tula

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