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The Samovars
When we speak about Tula, side by side with honey-cakes and flowling-pieces, we remember the famous Tula samovars.
No one knows where a samovar appeared for the first time, but one thing is clear, that it's a purely Russian invention. The true fame to the samovar was created by Tula masters.
The Lisitsyns brothers Ivan and Nazar marked the beginning of the samovars' production in Tula by opening, in 1778, the first samovar workshop in the Shtykovaya street. Unusually fast the production of Tula samovars is developed in the XIX century.
If in 1850 Tula numbered 28 samovar factories, in 1890-74. The Tula samovars penetrated into all the corners of Russia, won popularitu among the wide sections of the population. The samovars, which are producted at the factories of the Tula manufacturers the Batashovs and his successors the Kapyrzins, the Shemarins win the world fame by their mastership.
Many wares of Tula samovar masters were presented on the largest exhibitions in Russia and abroad, including the world exhibitions, and more than once they were marked with the greatest rewards.
The shapes and models of the samovars worked out by Tula masters during the XIX and the beginning of the XX century are multiformed. The ball-shaped, vase-shaped, pear-shaped samovars and the samovars of other forms came into existence. And side by side with the heated samovars kerosene, spirit and later electric samovars are appeared. Purity, fineness, great skill of decoration and inexhaustible imagination of masters are surprised in the appearance of the samovars made in the town of the gunsmithes. Though the mechanization of the samovar industry on a level with reducing the price of production resulted in standardization and simplification of their forms and to some extent in lowering the standard of skill.
A new page in Tula samovar history is opened at the Soviet time.
In 1919, after the nationalization of enterprises in Tula, the State Union of the Samovar Factories with the centre at the factory, belonged to Batashov in the past, is ogranized.
That time numerous handicraft artels were occupied with making samovars.
High quality and skill with which Tula samovars were made often allowed them to take the first prises on All-Russian and All-Union exhibitions.
At the post-war time the production of samovars in Tula was concentrated at the plant "Shtamp", which was the leading enterprise on making samovars in the country, suitably carrying on the traditions of the metal-worker masters.

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