On 8th September 2008, within the framework of the celebrations dedicated to the 855th anniversary of the Gorodets town the Museum of Samovars (the Museum, for short) was opened to the public. The Museum occupies the former house of the merchant Grishayev. This house, which is a monument of architecture and city-building, was built in the second half of the 19th century. Architraves and other elements of the faсade are decorated with various kinds of carving that endows the building with a uniquely festive appearance.
The core of the Museum's holdings is made up of a private collection of the honorary Gorodets citizen Nikolay Polyakov, the head of the Directorate of the Federal Tax Service for Nizhny Novgorod Region. The exposition of the Museum contains over 500 samovars as well as other objects that were used in the Russian tea ceremony. This exhibition is one of the largest of its kind in Russia.
In every Russian home, the samovar used to occupy an honorary place. It used to be a home protector and a symbol of hearth and home and of friendly interaction. The samovar was even a luxury product. In the 18th and 19th centuries, this round-bellied beauty cost 25 roubles on average. For comparison, at that time a cow could be bought for 1 rouble and a log house for 13 roubles.
Various types of samovars are on display in the Museum: inn samovars, travel samovars, hotel samovars, small samovars (called "selfish" samovars or the "tete a tete" samovars) and coffee samovars.
The forefather of all the samovars was the kitchen samovar produced at Urals factories of the Demidovs. It was divided into three compartments; the two of them were designed for cooking and the third one for making tea. A samovar of this kind was used for making soup and porridge, and a ladle was attached to it. The largest samovar from the collection fits 53 litres (11.5 UK gallons), while the smallest one fits merely 0.075 litres (2.5 UK ounces). These very small samovars were called "selfish" samovars, because they were designed for one person only. Workers of the pre-revolutionary Russian army used this kind of samovars. They were very useful if one needed to boil water fast (for example, for shaving). A Don Juan samovar: "stands" with his "hands" on his "hips", his "cap" is filled with patterns, and he himself is well-built and handsome. A soldier samovar, on the contrary, keeps his "arms at side": the true military bearing. A "noble" samovar is decorated with lion heads. A distinctive feature of inn samovars: as many as three taps. Some samovars contain trademarks, in the form of producer's stamps (factories of Vorontsovs, Batashyovs or Puchkov). The shapes of the samovars also fall into several types: Greek vase, sphinx, acorn, shot, and egg.
The collection of the Museum is being constantly enlarged.
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