Descendant of the Tyumen tea dynasty, Evgeny Ledovsky-Kolokolnikov, will talk about the Siberian trade route, show photographs and authentic items. There will also be a tea tasting. An ordinary cup of tea holds the history of great trade, family business, and long roads between the East and Russia. The meeting will discuss the Siberian trade route, along which caravans connected two empires and transformed tea from a rare commodity into an important part of everyday culture. Entrepreneur Evgeny Ledovsky-Kolokolnikov, a descendant of the Tyumen tea dynasty, will share stories from the past and present, show photographs and items from the Kolokolnikov merchants' archive. A separate topic of the lecture will be the modern continuation of the Russian tea business. The entrepreneur works with farmer tea from China, develops his own production, and creates signature blends that resonate with pre-revolutionary aesthetics, memories of caravans, and Eastern culture. Listeners will be able to understand how the legacy of merchant houses lives on in today's gastronomic world.