Russian peasant crafts and industries

The textbook is addressed primarily to the students of the specialty "Museology and the Protection of Cultural Heritage", and can be useful for students decorative and applied art, museum workers, as well as secondary school teachers who teach the history of world and domestic culture and leading various courses of additional education.
It is dedicated to the history of numerous Russian folk crafts and crafts, covering the country"s main raw materials: wood, flax, hemp, wool, fluff, fur and skin, clay, stone, metal, starting from the rolls and forest alloy to the forging of horses.
For the first time, technologies, tools, products, a place of crafts and crafts in both peasant and national farms of pre -revolutionary Russia are considered.
Written by a living language, with the widespread use of both the memoirs and essays of contemporaries, and the personal impressions of the author and his experience, the book will be interesting to a wide circle of the reader who are interested in the past of his homeland