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The question about food history and national culinary traditions as a reflection of the most important cults and rituals in people’s lives has recently become the object of many researchers’ intense interest. Food as a cultural product has always been an important character in fiction, shaping a “gastronomical language” that is unique for each author. This imaginative potential is due to the human capacity to transform words into visual images. The method of transferring information by means of emotional images is one of the personal features of F.M. Dostoevsky’s works. In the field of food realia tea holds a prominent place. Any references to it in fiction are always focused on the process of consuming it because tea existed as a ritual and kept its main traditions in almost every national culture. In this article, I have attempted for the first time to systematize the specifics of tea drinking in F.M. Dostoevsky’s works.