Tea Store
Chaynyy Dom Perlova
Pagoda-fronted tea shop with carved dragons, lanterns and a bell tower, built to woo a Qing envoy.
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About this audio guide
In 1896 a Moscow tea merchant tore the facade off his own shop, chasing a Qing court official due in the city for a tsar's coronation. This guide to Chaynyy Dom Perlova follows Sergei Perlov's bet that turning his building into a Chinese pagoda would win the dignitary's business, and the family rivalry with his own brother, another tea merchant, running a shop across the city. Listen for who the visiting official actually chose to stay with once he reached Moscow.
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