Documentary evidence, except the memories of relatives of Mukhina, has not survived. Apparently, the famous pre-revolution «maltsovsky STAKAN” was redesigned to suit the dishwasher in the late 30's.

The pre-revolutionary glass, in turn, used the more archaic form, dating from the era of Peter the Great. Beginning in the mid 19th century, the history of the glass in Russia is closely intertwined with socialism. Sergey Maltsev, was a landlord and follower of the ideas of Robert Owen and Charles Fourier. In 1849 from his serfdom peasants organized phalange. The model of socialism was quite recognizable - uniforms, marching and standardisation. The communar's glasses were produced in American technology (heat stamping), and the business flourished until the abolition of serfdom.

Retired General wrote angry letters to the Tzar, knowing that socialism without serfdom in Russia - utopia. Gradually the business collapsed and Maltsev - bankrupt.

The new socialist spirit for the glass was filled after the revolution.
Lenin in his tipsy speech «Against mistakes of Trotsky and Bukharin» describes the STAKAN
as not only the tool for drink. “But the glass is not only these functions or quality, but has a number of properties, qualities, parties, relationships. The glass is a heavy object which can be an instrument for throwing and breaking, can serve as a press weight, as premises for the caught butterfly; a glass may have value as a subject of artistic carving or drawing.”
“Evil Genius of socialism” clearly shows us not only functional but also the aesthetic and heroic content of the STAKAN
There is a motive of STAKAN in the works of the great Soviet architect Konstantin Melnikov. His famous house in Krivokolennyj Lane in Moscow - nothing more than Double (clinking) faceted glasses.
. At the end of 1930, an ambitious Melnykov’s «Green cities»project – a recreation area for workers, concentrically located around the «Institute changes the type of man».
In the explanatory memorandum he explain the main thing in this project «is intended solely for sleep» - «in the form of a series of shells, placed in the ring at a distance of about ten kilometers». A huge faceted cylindrical dormitory - «on the round». (motif of the Round Table of King Arthur?)

The idea of the glass, as container of dreams- genuine STAKAN along with socialism to subconscious archetypes. A cursory glance at the STAKAN as the myth, or cultural matrix gives amazing results.
The very form of the glass - androgyne (worth it just to turn over)
In men’s gender initation, STAKAN served as a symbolic sword. Usually, the first time a boy got the homosocial experience and became the(MUGIK) «man» - with a STAKAN in his hand.

There were special ritual places for them (below)
The material development of the glass was felt in the heroic myth of Peter the First. In the old legend -he threw a glass on the floor (as a test of strength).
History has preserved the legend that by doing so, the emperor exclaimed, «a glass - to be (or to beat)». The custom of beating the glasses after drinking was entrenched as a heroic myth in the Russian officers. And for many foreigners became as simulacres of «Russianness».
Women's household magic in Soviet socio-cultural universe also actively used the theme of STAKAN. As ameasure for flour and sugar when baking, as a matrix, in the manufacture of PELMENY(meat dumplings), as a stand when darning socks etc .The most terrible women’s curse – to describe a man as «a glass of snot» In the communal apartments STAKAN was used for eavesdropping to listen to neighbors talking through the wall.
«Marusya”s band» (or «riska”-in Ukrainian)- a line measured the contents of the glass at 200gr and 50 gr. That has also been important not only in domestic life but also in an alternative economy. (Usually wholesalers sell kuknar (poppy) or marijuana in a full glass, and had a profit margin of 50gr from the line «riska»-risk) Faceted STAKAN - is hero of Russian literature (from Leo Tolstoy, who, left great memories about Sergei Maltsov - to Venedikt Yerofeev in his famous “Moskva-Petushki”).
We find STAKAN in films - from the stunning phrase «Russian-don’t take a snack after the first drink» in the classic «Fate of Man» from Bondarchuk (Senior) - to a magical scene with a trembling glass at the corner of the table in «Mirror» by Tarkovsky. The glass is often found in proverbs and sayings. And how many songs piled on the shattered lives!
Often a symbol of fate - is our faceted character.
The very existence of the STAKAN in public places is used as an informal cultural mark. Millions of people, give everyday a kiss to STAKAN, drinking mineral water from the automats on the streets of the Soviet cities, kefir in factory canteens, and kissel in the kindergartens. The Russian railroad still maintained a pretty custom of serving tea from STAKAN in the special metal PODSTAKANNIKI (the glass holder).