Peasant art discovery
An extraordinary painted malachite, box was found recently in Sverdlovsk, in the Urals. It appears to bear a single flower design, but a magnifying glass revealed that the flower was "built up” of 200 vignettes. Among these were landscapes, generals, grenadiers, armed peasants, a serf being flogged, priests and an image o.'tne Virgin Mary. There are also several inscriptions, so small that they have yet to be fully deciphered. The box is unusual in another way: it is made of thin plates of malachite on marble —not on metal, the usual practice of Urals* masters. It is believed to be about 200 years old, and possibly shows scenes connected with the Pugachev peasant revolt.
THEATRE COUNT 540,541 . . . that is the latest count of theatres in the U.S.S.R. with the opening of a new one, founded by young actors from the Byelorussian Institute of Acting, in the old town of Bobruisk.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32474, 8 December 1970, Page 12
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153Peasant art discovery Press, Volume CX, Issue 32474, 8 December 1970, Page 12
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