Discover how Palekh miniatures emerged when Russian icon painters, stripped of church commissions after 1917, turned to lacquered papier-mache boxes and folk tales.
Tag: Russian folk art
Matryoshka dolls weren’t ancient folk art. They were designed in the 1890s by painter Sergey Malyutin and turned by craftsman Vasily Zvyozdochkin at Abramtsevo.
Lubok prints were Russia’s first mass media: cheap folk woodcuts sold by peddlers from the 1600s that shaped satire, storytelling, and the avant garde.