2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21
Where the faceted glass came from is not known for certain. There are several versions of this. According to one of them, this piece of tableware began to be made in Russia back in the time of Peter the Great. Allegedly, the glass maker Efim Smolin from the glorious city of Vladimir presented his invention to the autocrat, assuring the emperor that the faceted glass does not break. Alekseich, having taken a sip of the new drink (the glass was not empty), grabbed it on the stone floor, shouting at the same time:
"There will be a glass!". The glass container immediately shattered into a thousand pieces. True, the king at the same time had mercy and did not punish the glassblower-deceiver. And later, popular rumor changed the royal phrase spoken by the drunk to another: “Beat the glasses.”
According to another version, which lacks such dramatic details, faceted glasses began to be produced in the reign of Peter in the city of Gus-Khrustalny. But whether the emperor drank alcohol from them or not - history is silent about that. Only one thing is certain: neither in the eighteenth nor in the nineteenth centuryfaceted glass did not leave its image. ANYWHERE! It is not in the paintings of artists, there are no descriptions in works of literature.
For the first time, the image of a faceted glass was documented in the painting "Morning Still Life" (1918), painted by the famous artist Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin (oh, what a luxurious surname, to match the object depicted in the still life!). True, there was tea in that faceted glass in the picture.
Why is a faceted glass preferable to a round one? Well, first of all, it really is much stronger. This means that the semi-mythical Yefim Smolin was not so wrong when he told the tsar that the glass does not break. Secondly, he is significantly less inclined to roll around the table when laid on his side.
Supporters of the appearance of a faceted glass in Peter's time unanimously appeal to this circumstance - they say, the tsar, known for his maritime hobbies, could not pass by such an invention, which is very useful during pitching. But it is not known for sure whether it was really so or somewhat differently.
Even if the faceted glass appeared in the last years of the Russian Empire, the novelty received a creative interpretation during the years of Soviet power, perhaps even becoming an element of Russian folklore. About the holiday "Two hundred years of faceted glass", I hope everyone heard?
The classic Soviet faceted glass saw the light of day on September 11, 1943, when the production of this product with modern dimensions was launched in Gus-Khrustalny. Glasses were produced with a different number of faces - from twelve toeighteen in increments of two. The exception is a seventeen-sided glass, but this is rare, since it is technologically easier to make glasses with an even number of faces.
This product has long been replicated by both domestic industry and works of art (as an image, of course). And yet - what is it, faceted glass? How many grams (more precisely, not grams, of course, but milliliters) fit into this symbol of the era? Let's try to figure it out.
A faceted glass could have a different volume, but the classic one contained two hundred and fifty milliliters (if flush with the edges) and two hundred - if poured to the upper border of the faceted surface. Even Elena Mukhina, the famous sculptor and author of The Worker and Collective Farm Girl, had a hand in designing the masterpiece of the glass industry. In any case, this is a purely domestic invention. And, undoubtedly, the same symbol of Russia as the matryoshka, balalaika and bear. They released it in incredible quantities. The army, he althcare facilities and catering - even if we take into account only these three big customers, it becomes clear that the faceted glass is a truly popular dish.
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