In Michael Mihajlovicha Borschev's collection there is a unusual samovar that attracts not so much with its shape (it actually has more traditional look), but, if it is possible to say so, its "biography". On a cover of that modest water heater there is the inscription that reads: “to the Marshal of Armored Tanks, Rybalko P.S. in memory of Great Homeland War from the repairmen”.
Ivan Stepanovich Batashev (1859 1901) – the younger son of Tula gun maker Stepan Fedotovich Batashev. Alexey Stepanovich Batashev (1856?) – 4th son of Stepan Fedotovich Batasheva.
Alexander Stepanovicha Batasheva's name (1848-1912) is now little known to the residents of Tula. A.S. Batashev was born on March 28th, in 1848 in the suburb of Tula, Chulkovo village.
Despite of an old history of metal manufacturing in the land of Tula, the current smithy of the weapon appeared here only in the XVII century. Under the decree of tsar Michael Fedorovich, 200 smiths, masters of «self-bursting» business (self-burst – one of the names of fire-arms), were sent away to the exclusive village.
Nikolay Ivanovich Batashev (18? – 1915) – well known in Tula samovar manufacturer, the son and successor of Ivan Grigorevicha Batashev. He was buried on an ancient cemetery of Tula, Vsesvyatskoye.
Vasily Stepanovich Batashev (1842-1892) – the owner of the most famous factory of samovars in Tula. Yet in 1840 the father Vasily, Stepan Fedotovich, opened a small samovar factory in his own house in the suburb of Tula, Chulkovo.
Russian samovar is an interesting and unfamiliar area of history of motherland’s art metal. The consciousness of modern people, the concept about tea drinking ceremony with the samovar is noted as the national peculiarity of Russian life.
Each samovar was marked with a brand of the manufacturer as an item for sale. As there were so many manufacturers and owners of samovar factories, the variety of brands and trademarks was impressive.
Tula Samovar at the exhibitions
As well as in modern society, exhibitions and expositions in the past were popular as well. To prove to be at any exhibitions or fairs is the best way to present oneself in the trading world and to draw attention of new buyers and customers.
Looking closely the pages written for the office of the Tula governor by the owners of the Tula factories, you are surprised, by means of what simple tools the samovar was created!
In samovar business as however, as in any kind of business, the champions and outsiders also exist.
Samovar manufacture
In the middle of the XVIII century, manufacturing of samovars and coffee pots took an important place in a metalworking industry of the country.
Samovar - by the definition of V. I. Dal - is « water-heating vessel for making tea, mostly copper, with a pipe and the brazier inside». This brief definition also gives the basic characteristic of the samovar’s design, and explains its emergence among the other tableware.
The samovar was born in this world only when there was the a need for it. This common truth fits for an explanation of the background of appearance of any item, but nevertheless, it is no less reliable.
Europeans got to know tea for the first time in 1610, when the ships of the Dutch East Indian company brought it from China and Japan. Foggy Albion tried tea the first time tea only in 1658.
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Brothers Batashevs: Ivan and Alexey Stepanovichi
Alexander Stepanovich Batashev
First Tula samovar manufacturers: Lisitsyns and Lomovs
Batashev's Samovars: Vasily Stepanovich Batashev
For all tastes and a prosperities (artistic and stylistic features of Russian samovar)
Advertising as the engine of commerce
Tula Samovar at the exhibitions
What is fixing the belly means or how to make a samovar
Samovar manufacture
Bouillottes and other European bits and pieces 
