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Seniors Sip Tea with Dostoyevsky
On their return to campus after Christmas break, the California Class of 2025 donned furs and sipped tea at a Russian Tea Party. College Librarian Richena Curphey (’02) hosts the event each winter to give the seniors a small taste of Russian culture before their first seminar of the semester — on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
The tradition of the Russian Tea Party began years ago after benefactors gifted the College an antique copper samovar from St. Petersburg. The samovar — an urn used to heat water for tea — was a quintessential feature of Russian households for several centuries and is occasionally mentioned throughout both great works of Russian literature covered in the Senior Seminar: The Brothers Karamazov and Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
The seniors gathered on the second floor of St. Bernadine of Sienna Library for the party, where they found tables filled with pots of brewed teas and desserts, while Russian music playing on an old record player. At the party’s end, the seniors left teatime behind and headed off to discuss The Brothers Karamazov’s myriad characters, themes, and philosophies.
