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I bought this card in Matsesta tea plantation during my journey to Sochi last year.

Though it’s only tea plantation in Russia, tea is very popular here.

I drink a lot of it during a day and my walks rarely goes without thermos with hot tea.

I have two types of it - a small one on 0.5 liters for short rides and a one liter for longer ones.

Especially I like tea in cool period of the year, it’s a good way to warm up, but even during summer I drink tea regularly, although usually it’s fresh leaves of black currant brewed in a teapot or thermos.

How Russians are like tea is easy to see even in books.

It’s about travel a merchant couple in Paris for the 1889 World’s Fair.

Actually a bit vulgar book, although quite funny and incredibly truthful, actual even so many years later.

I mentioned it because spouses took with them owns tea and were amazed and very upset that they can’t find a samovar to drink it.

They were ready that they won’t find a good tea in Europe, but they weren’t ready that hot water is difficult to find too.

Samovar is something authentic and distinctive, that is difficult to find somewhere else.

Although now it’s difficult to find it even in Russia itself.

Samovar is a kind of a big kettle for boiling water and making tea.

In that period was quite usual to drink about 7-8 cups of tea, I suppose partly because a size of samovar which allows to do it.

So a habit and love to tea in Russia is very deep, I believe it’s stronger than the same about vodka, although about the second one the world knows better.