TULA
Country: Great Britain
Place: Birmingham
Received: 04/04/2013
Received: 04/04/2013
Distance: 1 960 km
Travelled: 37 days
Travelled: 37 days
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| Vintage card of Tula |
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| Elizabeth II |
Tula is a city
in Russia, located 193 km to the south from Moscow, on the Upa River, which is
345 km long. Tula was first mentioned in 1146 and is famous for Tula accordion
(a free-reed wind instrument), pryaniki and samovar.
Traditional
Russian pryaniki (gingerbread) are the cookies made with honey and spices. Tula
gingerbread often looks like a rectangular tile or a flat figure and contains
jam or condensed milk and honey as well. Gingerbreads in Tula originate from
the 17th century, and In 1996 Tula opened a museum dedicated to these cookies.
Tula is
also a center of samovar production. Samovar is a heated metal container used
to boil water. The Russian idiom says "You don't take a samovar to
Tula", which is an equivalent of "coals to Newcastle".
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