About the kettle museum in Pereslavl

How much do you know about such an irreplaceable It is like a kettle, and which of them, apart from modern ones, you still have. Have you seen it yet?

Maybe you someone in the memory will pop up filled with simple utensils dear to the heart hut in village or old town apartment. I'll remember the pretty metal ones. tea boxes or landrin, sugar bowl, candy samovar or simple enameled teapot ... But over the years, cute memorabilia will probably appear It's very foggy.

In the city, everyone has a chance. Once inadvertently look into the past, crossing the threshold of one of the peasants houses of the village of Vyshchevo, which is located on the very shore of Pleshcheev Lake only in A few miles from Pereslavl. On the windows of the house – bright plating, on the walls - cheerful inscriptions, on the roof there is a painted kettle, so you can make a mistake with the address. impossible.

Before you. The heavy and wide wooden doors of the Museum will open and you will be in the room. with low ceilings, where the time is measured by the old wall clock pendulum, located next to simple shelves. This is the winter. A warm place is a maid, in it the real Russian stove is heated! At the buffet. dishes - vases, cups, sugar cups, forceps for sugar ... It just seems like this. It is a place of worship and a place of worship. settled and receive guests good old kettles, which once pleased with hot tea of their former owners - residents of the lands of Kostroma, Vologda, Lower Novgorod, Tver and Yaroslavl Territory.

Teapots collected by local enthusiasts Andrey Vorobyov and Dmitry Nikishkin, very diverse - as by their dates Manufacturing (from the end of XIX) century and to the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as in their forms and materials: porcelain, copper, nickel, brewing ... Some species They even have their own unusual names.

Hardly you. Have you ever heard that the second name-definition of a kettle was “pan”, “bird”, “art” or, for example, “bulls”. About. And we will see that this is a great place to be. a closed oval bucket on an iced champagne stand - alcohol, and boiling in it occurred due to the burning of alcohol in an alcohol placed under vessel. And “art” people called a huge kettle, containing 15 liters of water, which A whole platoon of soldiers could easily be drunk. You will be delighted to hear in This museum and other interesting facts, and not only from history. teapots, as well as about the traditions and curious features of Russian life.

Items stored in the Teapot House are very often They call it “grandmother stuff.” According to the guests, someone They seem to be an entertaining curiosity, and others, on the contrary, leave in the shower. A bright and painful feeling of sadness for the good times gone.