stakan

Updated: May 15, 2025

Perhaps, too, in the early morning you may learn in an unpleasant way that other parts of the old system are not yet extinct. You may hear, for instance, resounding along the corridors such an order as "Petrusha! Petrusha! Stakan vody!" When the toilet operations are completed, and you order tea one always orders tea in Russia you will be asked whether you have your own tea and sugar with you.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia