Tubes and tubelers. A smoking tube is an almost mystical thing. A person can smoke a pipe all his life and not be able to smoke. The tube can be the subject of luxury and a work of art. It can be given and inherited. She carries the warmth and the image of the person who belongs. The tube is a way of perception of the world.
“He introduced him how he was sitting on a summer evening on a terrace, at a tea table, under an imperfect with a canopy of trees with a long pipe and lazily draws smoke into itself, deliberately enjoying the appearance, coolness, silence that open from the trees; And in the distance the fields turn yellow, the sun falls behind the familiar birch and blossom the smooth, like a mirror, a pond; steam rises from the fields; It becomes cool, twilight occurs; The peasants go home in crowds. ”
Ivan Goncharov "Oblomov"
- The story of pleasure -
In Russia, initially the tubes were planted by Peter I. Peter forced to smoke tobacco because he believed that this was part of European culture. Here, tubes from everyday Dutch life have turned into a sign of a certain caste. In the age of Pushkin, the tube was already familiar with prosperity.
There was a culture of "invitation to the phone." The guests often came with their forecasters, the owner invited them to the fireplace, they sat there, puffing with tubes and talking. I must say that Chubuk is not like a modern tube that weighs 30 - 35 grams. It was a rather heavy thing, it weighed up to a half -kilogram, it could not be held, and she was not kept in her teeth. They sat in low chairs, the tube lay - that is, she stood on the floor, and she had a long inserting mouthpiece - a chubuk. According to this, the mouthpiece and the pipe itself began to be called a chubuk (in Georgian, the pipe is generally “chubuki”). The smoker himself not every time could kindle the chubuk, for this there were Cossacks who cooked the phone with long matches. Such long tubes are described by Goncharov in Oblomov.
Then the chuboks began to shorten, they began to hold them in their hands. And in parallel the culture of a small tube developed, which could be kept in the teeth. Mostly these were the pipes of the sailors: they did not have the opportunity to carry bulky objects with them.
Gradually, the tubes were facilitated, equipped with amber mouthpieces: wooden ones quickly rushed. Then, when Ebonite appeared, they began to make wooden tubes with an ebonite mouthpiece.
In parallel with elite tubes, small, simple - already the usual people began to smoke. Because tobacco came to the south of Russia, self -pose appeared. Very good tobacco was brought from Turkey. Then clay tubes appeared, but they are tasteless - clay gives an earthy taste. Such a tube in "Fathers and Children" smokes Bazarov.
- Men's joys -
The tube is a calm smoking. The main in smoking the tube is a sense of taste, and not receiving nicotine, while you smoke a pipe. You do not drag on, nicotine enters the blood through the taste papillae.
The tube is part of the character. A nervous person, as a rule, cannot smoke a pipe: it goes out of it, you need to maintain fire all the time. On the other hand, it is always clear when a person smokes only for the image. It is easy to distinguish from a real tube. For example, there is a well -known photograph of Yesenin with a pipe: by the way he holds it, it is clear that he did not know how to smoke a pipe.
The tube decorates a man. She creates an image of masculinity, exclusivity. But there are few real tubelers. This is troublesome. It is curious that when a new wave began, many rich people began to buy tubes, and very expensive. And then gradually they refused this case. Because you need to mess with the pipe, it must be taken care of, it cannot be overheated, it must be cleaned. In general, it is necessary to enjoy her. This tubeler “in work” usually has 4 - 5 tubes, because the tube should be dry all the time. She should rest, she has her own life. By the way, the tube can be perfect in shape, but badly smoke.
If you buy a phone to enjoy, you will have to tinker with it: it must be brought up as a child. Or like a woman. You have an intimate relationship with the pipe: you hold it in your hands, it is warm. You feel her skin ...
But as a person can live with a woman all his life and not love her, so you can smoke a pipe all your life and not know what it is. If you smoke incorrectly, force this pipe, do not give it the opportunity to help you ...
Smoking the tube - The kinship of souls -
How motorcyclists welcome each other on the street, so the tubelers signal their belonging to a certain clan. It doesn’t matter who you are, but if you smoke a phone, you can always find a topic for conversation - you can come up and ask what kind of pipe is a person, how to smoke, what tobacco ...
The tube makes it possible to choose tobacco, change tobacco. There are heavy tobacco, there are light tobacco. They are prepared in a complex way, they are specifically strengthened with different additives: honey, prunes, something else; This is a rather complicated production. This also began the Dutch, they had a large amount of tobacco from African colonies. There are also very good English tobacco. The tubes have their own companies. Now the best tubes, from my point of view, Danish. There are French, Italian firms. As a rule, these are small manufactories where the tubes are made with their hands. Although there are decent mass production that produce tubes in whole series. There are different types of tubes: “bulldog”, “Apple”. It all depends on the shape of the cup, but in the framework of one form you can make an infinite number of options.
Templates tube - sees from afar -
The tube creates the illusion of the matter: you can pick up the phone, and you seem to be busy with business. You can’t like this with a cigarette: you took it, lit a cigarette, smoked and went. And with the pipe - you sit, talk, smoke ... And then, almost always the tube attracts the attention of the person you talk to.
By the way a person smokes, it is clear that he smokes really or is fooling around. Wonderful artist Konstantin KUKSO in this case is just a number one professor, a connoisseur. Alexander Shirvindt is also a tube. But he also made a phone with an image element, he has a high straight tube of the English style. In general, diets are usually long and straight. A long tube creates a horizontal - you pay attention to the length of this tube. Small bent tubes, nasopharyngeists, are the destiny of people “in themselves”, introverts.
Glory Govorukhin, too, I think, smokes not only for the image. And the pipe goes to him. Grisha Gorin was a real, confident smoker. Michael Tariverdiev smoked a phone. He loved little -soose tobacco. I had the impression that Ruslan Hasbulatov smoked a pipe for importance. And Timur Gaidar, although he was a real tube, but did not know how to smoke - he burned all the tubes.
And Stalin was not a smoker at all, he just pouted. He did not even use tubular tobacco, filled the cigarette. It seemed to him as a man of small stature that he looked more with a pipe. I think that nobody could smoke, surrounded by Stalin, because he would unscrew his head. He was supposed to be different: to become at the window, to take the phone in the hand. It was almost always portrayed either a cigarette or holding tube in his hand. Nowadays, among politicians, smokers of the tube is also a rarity. It's funny: a lot of tubes, a lot of pipe, and almost no one smokes ...
- Grandfather Fedorov -
Alexey Borisovich Fedorov, who was essentially the first real Russian tubular master, because before that the tubes were all foreign, looked at the man and made a phone in his image. He had a whole theory that the tube could even destroy the image of a person. If some round man takes a long pipe with a flat cup, this can destroy the family. He said: "You take this phone and in the yalta in white pants in a scam -shoe jacket you go - and all your girls ... And you have a wife at home."
Grandfather Fedorov was a great man. For example, he made a phone for Simenon. Some smoke the phone when they work. Simenon was like that. He did not let out the pipe from his mouth. And when Fedorov sent him a tube-such a little straight, he was so delighted that such a competent pipe came from the distant and unfamiliar Russia that he put it in his art club, and it became a tube of the year. This is a famous story. Thanks to Simenon, the pipe world found out that in Russia there is this great master. Simenon wrote to Fedorov that he also made tubes, and sent the instruments. And Fedorov made him a rather interesting device. A heavy tube, more like old chubuki. But she was on tiny bearings. Hands are free, and you can print. And when you smoke, you can roll it on these wheels.
At first, Fedorov was not any tubular master, but was a professional billiard player and was married to the daughter of a billiard manufacturer. He played brilliantly on billiards, played with famous people. For example, with Mayakovsky. And he even served with Mayakovsky with some general, close to the Vyrubova mug. And then the revolution began. He became the commissar of the first air defense artist. They shot at airplanes. Since he was from a merchant family, during the “cleaning” he stopped being a party person and began to sing. He had a wonderful tenor, he sang romances, toured Alyosha Kocheva under the pseudonym. And then, when the voice began to sit down and in the mid-30s all this private concert practice began to fade away (and he did not sing Soviet songs in principle), he took a billiard ball and passed the phone from it. It turned out that this tube could not be smoked, because it is a bone, and the bone gives an unpleasant smell ... it began to sharpen the tubes and reached perfection.
Alexei Tolstoy had Fedorov tubes. And once a little man came running to him: “I have misfortune (and this is really misfortune) - the mouthpiece broke. They said that in St. Petersburg there is such a master who can make a mouthpiece. ” It was Dovzhenko. Fedorov made him a mouthpiece, and he shouted admiringly: “The neck! What a beautiful neck! ”Baking the mouthpiece.
Alexei Borisovich experienced a blockade and continued to make tubes after the war. And he even passed three pieces to Stalin. Although Stalin really did not like, it was professionally important for him to make these tubes. I ordered them the Leningrad regional committee, Fedorov made these tubes and then specially went to the Museum of Gifts of Stalin - see if they were there or not. They were not there, it testified that Stalin left himself.
He planted the entire BDT on the phone. Efim Kopelyan was the tubeler - of course, everyone around him began to go to Fedorov. There were no tubes in the stores, that is, they were Yavovsky, but these were perfect galoshes. And Fedorov had piece products. Actually, he earned this to a living. He made these tubes, probably ten thousand and, in essence, never repeated.
The spread of prices for tubes is very large. A normal, decent tube can be bought for $ 100. But there are specimens for 3 thousand dollars-you can rise as an increase in the cost of infinitely all sorts of jewelry, gold rings, and something else. There are tubes that at first glance do not stand out, but they are made by famous masters of good wood, smoke well. And they are expensive.
Peter I smoked small Dutch tubes - long, similar to gypsum, but in fact they were porcelain or earthenware. The tube should be made of neutral material, which has neither smell nor taste and does not burn. And therefore, until the perfect material for the tube was found, they were made of clay and foam. The best tubes are foam. Foam is a Mediterranean fine-dispersed material, something like limestone. She was well processed, had no taste and quickly smoked. If you smoked such a pipe for a long time, it gained color - from brown (although it was perfectly white) to ruby, because it was impregnated with nicotine. All modern tubes are made of a certain tree - this is the root of a tree -like heather. He is called a briar. It grows in England, in Scotland and the Mediterranean Sea.
