Brewing tea Russian-style, with a samovar (RT TV)

Any Russian's best friend. No, not a person, but in the past that's how the Russians treated their samovar. It had a place of honor at the table, and in some homes it still does. SOUNDBITE Konstantin Ziskin, samovar enthusiast, speaking Russian: “Tea from a samovar tastes much better than tea from an electric kettle. It smells of smoke, fresh wood and pine cones.“ Literally a self-boiler, a samovar has traditionally been used to heat water for tea. And that's how it's done the old way: water from the well