# @shabnamnasimi on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUGmNMfkmPR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/54766715-shabnamnasimi-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/d8c74dc579.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-01-29T17:35:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Shabnam Nasimi (@ShabnamNasimi) — https://gondola.cc/ShabnamNasimi

## Caption

REEL HISTORY: Have you seen this before? A samovar, the Russian “self-boiler”. It’s traceable in 18th-century Russia, with Tula makers documented by 1778, and by the 1800s it had travelled south into Central Asia and Qajar Iran and into homes in Afghanistan like my grandparents’ 

#history #persian #russian #tea #chai

## Stats

- **Views:** 22,050
- **Likes:** 6,198
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 182

## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shabnam Nasimi | @ShabnamNasimi | https://gondola.cc/ShabnamNasimi | Writer |

## Tags

history, russian, chai, persian, tea

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