Residents of Kirillov – members of the district and city societies of the disabled, the regional branch of the All-Russian Society of the Blind, the district veterans’ organizations – visited the exhibition “When Ready, the Samovar is Always Inviting” located in 
the Cook-house. L.M. Kharlapenkova, research officer of the Exposition and Exhibition Department in the museum, conducted a tour for them. She told the guests about the samovar as one of the most interesting articles of the Russian everyday life, about the exhibited items and secrets of tea making.
The exhibition “When Ready, the Samovar is Always Inviting” was opened in the Cook-house in June 2013. It presents 27 samovars from the private collection of V.N. Sapivuz. They were manufactured at the widely known Russian samovar factories of the “samovar kings”: the Batashovs, the Tejle, the Votontsovs, the Shemarins, the Kapyrzins. They started the whole dynasties of samovar manufacturers. Visitors can also see the samovar made at the first factory in Tula known from the archival sources. It was founded in 1778 and belonged to Nazar Fyodorovich Lisitsyn. Towels, candy boxes, tea pots and sugar bowls from the collection of Viktor Nikolaevich Sapivuz are also displayed at the exhibition
