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Guests can grab tea from large samovars before viewing an exhibit of jerseys and medals from the country’s hockey successes, dating to the Soviet period when the Red Machine ruled.
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There is a traditional samovar of tea, a folk choir, even the dress in which figure skater Adelina Sotnikova won the gold medal in Sochi in 2014.
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Privalenko pointed out Lenin’s samovar, a piano and a chess table with a secret compartment to hide materials from the police.
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The Lithuanian director Rimas Tuminas reimagines this story of blighted ambitions and unrequited love without a samovar in sight.
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Later this month, Mr. Paley launches a full Russian afternoon tea at Portland’s Heathman Hotel, complete with Kiev tortes, his grandmother’s sour cream cake and vintage samovars.
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An overturned brass samovar in a dingy brown train compartment.
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There were sacks, bags, feather mattresses, children, samovars, pillows.
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Origin and Etymology of samovar
First Known Use: 1830
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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