The table was made in 1926-1927 to order for the Spirikhin family who lived in Pustozersk by a resident of the neighboujring Ustye village, Alexei Mikhailovich Sumarokov.
According to the owners’ memoirs, the table was placed in the front room, where they sometimes drank evening tea, gave parties, where the children did their homework or the hostess of the house Maria Petrovna was engaged in sewing clothes both for the family and to order. From 1944 to 1946, the table became Peter Mikhailovich Spirikhin’s workplace. At that time he worked as a teacher in a Pustozersk school. In the late 1950s, the table was moved to Velikovisochnoe village, where Peter Mikhailovich lived and worked at that time and was used as a dining table.
From Peter Spirikhin’s book: “The simultaneous presence of all family members at the table was strictly obligatory, even we, children who did not have any clock, were never late for the table, except on special occasions. Our parents constantly paid attention to our behaviour at the table. We had to strictly follow the necessary rules during a meal: not to be greedy, not to choose the best pieces from a common dish, not to distract the others, not to stain the table, and, of course, not to be capricious”.