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Tea! An empty drink! And if the Chinese hadn’t given it to us, there could have been a big fuss! M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin The lecture is devoted to the history of Chinese tea in Russian culture. We will talk about: — the origin of sbiten; — the popularity of samovars; — tea-related products: sugar, bagels, and even pickles; — the traditions of tea drinking among the nobility; — tavern culture: tea and vodka, how they coexisted; — tea advertising; — Russian tea plantations in the Caucasus — there are many speculations and legends about them. We will drink unique tea from the personal collection of a tea historian! Lecturer — Ivan Alekseevich Sokolov, historian, candidate of historical sciences, author of a complex of scientific studies on tea and tea trade in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and Russia, author of the books “Tea and tea trade in Russia: 1790–1919”, “Chinese tea in Russia from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century”, “Tea trade in Russia. Firms. Directory”. The meeting will be held as part of the lecture series “Territory of the right drinks”.