Cool gifts and Russian stuff to buy in Moscow

Expats in Moscow spend a lot of time ferrying guests, family members and friends-of-friends who happen to be in town on business to the following locations for Russian fur hats, Russian tea sets, porcelain, Russian chocolate with funky socialist-realist wrappers, old Soviet junk and so on. It’s tourist stuff, but very cool tourist stuff from a culture with a distinctive tradition of graphic design. Over the years, much paranoid debate about what to do with the byzantine exiting-Russia customs form has been resolved in favor of ‘do not declare’….but don't say you heard it from us when they drag you into that little room at Sheremetyevo.