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Russian tea trade
tea trade
Nineteenth-century Russia imported tea overland via camel caravan from China through Kyakhta, then increasingly by sea via Odessa, producing a wealthy merchant class whose firms advertised heavily in the press.
Reading notes
- The Writer §1 tea shop
Nineteenth-century Russia imported tea overland via camel caravan from China through Kyakhta, then increasingly by sea via Odessa; the trade produced a wealthy merchant class (the Ershakovs, Botkins, Perlovs) whose shops advertised heavily in the press -- the milieu Chekhov satirizes here.
- The Writer §14 Поставщик китайских чаев
"Supplier of Chinese teas" is boilerplate self-description for a Russian tea firm; the invented pedigree ("the firm has existed since 1804") and the heraldic ornamentation Geinim proposes are stock devices of the genre, mocking the self-aggrandizing rhetoric of merchant advertising.
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