Департамент образования города Сергиев Посад

Муниципальное общеобразовательное учреждение

"Средняя общеобразовательная школа №4"

РЕФЕРАТпо предмету английский язык

Народные промыслыСергиева Посада

Авторы: ученицы 9”В” класса Слепова Ксения, Тюлейкина Ирина, Акопян Анна, Новлянская Ольга

Руководитель-консультант:Тараканова Наталья Николаевна

Сергиев Посад 2008

CONTENTS

The introduction..........................................................................................................................................3

Historical Origins of Toy Craft in Sergiev Posad...........................................................................................4

Bogorodskaya toy........................................................................................................................................5

A Variety of Types of Matryoshka Dolls: Research Work............................................................................8

A Molded Paper Toy..................................................................................................................................11

Sergiev Posad is the Capital of Toy Kingdom.............................................................................................12

The list of terms.........................................................................................................................................14

Literature...................................................................................................................................................15

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The introduction Sergiev Posad is our native city and it is very interesting for us to learn some

facts from its history. So, we tried to explore the historical heredity of the place

where we live. We think people should know the history of their country, be proud

of its great past and remember the words of Pavel Florensky: "Don't forget your

relationship, your past, get to know your great parents and your great-great

parents...Otherwise your life will be boring". At our English lessons we read and

spoke a lot about the folk crafts of Sergiev Posad, studied the life of the most

important people of Russia, painted toys, collected them and got interested in the

history of Sergiev Posad very much. We are proud of our city and know much of

its great past.

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Historical Origins of Toy Craft in Sergiev Posad

Sergiev Posad is an old Russian town. It is situated 73 km from Moscow and

was built up around the famous Trinity St. Sergius Monastery. In 1340 monk

Sergius of Radonezh built a small church lost in the wild thick forest. Later it

developed into the biggest monastery and the center of the Russian Orthodox

Church. A lot of people come there to visit its sacred places and admire the beauty

of the architectural ensemble of the Trinity St. Sergius Lavra.

Arts and crafts were flourishing in the towns and villages nearby. Wooden

toys which were known as “Trinity” toys became very popular. According to the

legend the first “Trinity” wooden toy was made by St. Sergius. He would carve

“with his very knife in a sheath on the belt” birds and horses and would give them

to children with blessing.

Researchers suppose that the art of toy – making, now famous all over

Russia, was born in the Lavra’s wood-carving workshop in the 15-th century where

the wise and crafty monk Amvrose created his toys. Samples of Amvrose’s work

can be seen in the Lavra: vestry: panagias (round icons representing the Holy

Virgin), carved crosses.

Sergiev Posad was a colorful, truly Russian town. The Monastery lent a

unique peculiarity to it. The market place in front of the monastery was always full

of different people: merchants, monks, pilgrims and craftsmen. The local legend

says that Tatycha, the native deaf-and-dumb craftsman, once carved a lime doll

and sold it to the merchant Erofeyev, who sold girdles by the monastery walls, for

the decoration of his shop. Erofeyev paid 7 coins for the doll and sold it at a higher

price. Moreover, the doll attracted attention to the merchant’s goods. So the

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merchant made an order for more dolls to Tatycha who had to recruit the

apprentices to satisfy the demand for his toys.

Some people say that toys had been carved in the place much earlier.

Snegiryov I. M. says that “ peasants of the settlements along the Trinity road sold

to the Tsar and Tsarina bread, kalachi, pirozhki, bliny, cheese, kvas, beer, brazhku,

honey, nuts, turnips, strawberries and some other vegetables and toys for fun for

their sons”. By and by the toy craft of Sergiev Posad became the greatest in Russia

and was based on ancient traditions coupled with the local school of applied arts.

In some settlements nearest to Sergiev Posad toy craft began to develop. Hundreds

of homesteads were involved in creating all types of toys, molded and turned on

the lathe. The master- craftsmen of Sergiev Posad have been making toys since the

16-th century. The settlement Bogorodsk became one of the greatest places of toy -

making. The first toys were a loshadka (a horsy) and a petrushka.

Bogorodskaya toy

Bogorodsk is situated 22 km from Sergiev Posad. The development of its toy

craft was connected with the history of Sergiev Posad.

People say that the history of Bogorodskaya toys starts with the following

legend. Some poor peasant woman who had many kids made

a doll from cloth rags. But it lasted only a few

days. The kids ripped it into pieces. So she wove

one from the straw. That one didn’t last very long either. So the

woman carved a wooden toy “Auka” for them. They played with it quite for a long

time, but eventually got bored with it and their father took it to the fair. He sold the

doll to a merchant in Sergiev Posad. The merchant liked the toy and ordered

several hundred of them. Since then most villagers became toymakers.

In former times the people from Bogorodsk made only

different parts of toys for the toy craftsmen of Sergiev Posad

who then they completed them. Later the craftsmen from

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Bogorodsk began to make toys “in belyo”, without painting them, and send them

to the craftsmen of Sergiev Posad who painted and sold them. Very often they

copied the models of the craftsmen of Sergiev Posad. The whole family was

involved in handicraft. Making toys there was a family business where children

and adults worked together. Each master carved his own type of toys: one would

make animals, another one – troikas. The toys reflect the themes and subjects of

everyday life. The main characters of Bogorodsk toys are birds and animals,

especially the bear, the symbol of Russia. The village was known as Medvezhy

Ugol (Bear’s Haunt) because of the thick woods surrounding it. Bogorodsk toys

and carvings are made with great humor and skill. Wooden toy soldiers made here

300 years ago were played with by Peter the Great. The action of a twirling

wooden ball on a string makes the bear perform actions, such as play the drums,

play chess, or juggle balls. Some are activated by push button-button action. These

carvings are appreciated by the children very much. Common scenes include “Two

Bears Playing Chess”, “A Bear Taking a Shower”, “A Rabbit Rowing a Boat”, “A

Bear Roasting Mushrooms”, “A Girl and Chickens”, “A Hungry Dog from

Bogorodsk” and many others.

Statuettes are cut from the whole tree for which different forms of timber are

prepared. A surface of finished products was smoothed out with emery paper.

Women and children usually carried out this work. The finished carvings are never

(seldom) painted and never decorated because the white wood provides warmth,

which finished wood does not. Toys are cut from linden. Before it becomes a toy,

it should get dry for two years.

Now toys are decorated with fretwork that covers the surface and decorates

them. According to a tradition some parts of a toy are movable. It is achieved by

various means. Some toys are fastened on supporting pedestals, and spring setting

toys in motion is inserted inside them. Other toys are made on swinging laths

(“Cavalry”, “Soldiers”, “Herd”). There are toys which movable parts are attached

to threads with a heavy object. The latter swings and presses down a thread which

sets in motion parts of the statuettes.

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All toys have different features: elements of fairy tales, fable, sports and

space, and all of them are funny. The image of a bear is traditional. It is portrayed

to be a quiet, kind and ridiculous animal holding either a basket of mushrooms and

berries, or an accordion. Sometimes it is depicted being deceived by a cunning

man. Bogorods toys have plasticity of form. They look as if caught in motion.

Very often people call them peasant toys.

Among the Bogorodsk toys movable playthings are of great interest.

Suspended on planks, they are equipped with a balance or a button. In 1900 at the

International Exhibition in Paris the works of S.D. Barashkov, a master from

Bogorodsk, received an award. In 1902 he got a silver medal at an exhibition in St.

Petersburg.

The hereditary toy-craftsman A.Y. Chushkin was among Bogorodsk

craftsmen whose works were noted for good quality at the exhibitions of handicraft

in Vladimir and Petersburg. In 1913 Chushkin was one of the organizers of an artel

of Bogorodsk craftsmen and its director. He contrived a novel advanced variant of

the "smiths" toy: smiths in turn striking an anvil with sledge-hammers by the forge

with an unshod horse being led to them.

The most noted work of the craftsmen is considered the composition "Bogorodsk

Carvers at Work" representing a peasant family involved in toy-making: a father

and a son are cutting wooden chocks, little boy is grinding ready items, a young

woman is spinning threads.

The best apprentice of Chushkin was N.I.Maksimov, Honored Artist of Russia. In

1927 the council of the best Bogorodsk master-craftsmen gave him an excellent

grade for his graduation work, a sculpture "General Toptyguin" and recommended

to keep the talented artist in the school as a teacher. Maksimov was awarded

different prizes for his works at many Russian and international exhibitions.

One day the famous French sculptor Ogust Roden was given a popular

Bogorodsk toy the “Smiths”. He always kept it with himself and when the group of

Russian artists visited him, he showed them the toy and wondered: “Can many

people in Russia contrive such a toy?”

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Wonderful traditionally carved boxes from Bogorodsk are admired by

people for their paintings and compositions. They are polychrome and complex.

The main ornamental composition is drawn in the wood with a heated needle. This

picture is painted in simple or complex color schemes, then coated with lacquer.

Boxes depict seasons, troika sleigh rides, the countryside, street fair and Russian

architecture. They are named and signed by the artists.

A Variety of Types of Matryoshka Dolls: Research WorkMatryoshka dolls, or nesting dolls, are, in the context of the

Russian history, a relatively new phenomenon. They first appeared

in 1899 in the city of Sergiev Posad. They were brought into Russia

by merchants from Japan. But village artists adopted them very

quickly and made them in a great variety of shapes. They were designed as toys for

children. There were cone-shaped nesting dolls and nesting dolls with pointed

heads. Some dolls took on the shape of the subject they depicted: a family without

a father in peasant costumes, characters from different tales and novels, political

figures, animals. There are some ethnographic matryoshkas: Gypsy Women,

American Man and many others. Matryoshkas were molded and turned on a lathe.

The faces of the early matryoshkas of Sergiev Posad were oval and strict. The

heads of many Matryoshkas were greatly enlarged. That’s why the face dominated

the body. These dolls look primitive because of the disproportion, but at the same

time they are very expressive. The matryoshka of Sergiev Posad consisted of 2 to

24 pieces. The most popular dolls consisted of 3, 8 and 12 pieces. In 1913 a 48-

piece matryoshka made by N. Bulichev was displayed at the Exhibition of Toys in

St. Petersburg.

Near the Lavra one can see a toy fair where different things made by

craftsmen from Sergiev Posad can be bought.

1. Traditional matryoshka from Sergiev Posad

The fist doll in the nest was a girl wearing a sarafan and a kerchief. She

was called matryoshka after the Russian name Matryona. Each of these

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dolls has got an apron and a kerchief of not coinciding colours. The big matryoshka

is about 9 cm. high, the smallest one is about 1 cm.

2. Sergievskaya matryoshka with a basket

In Sergiev Posad, which is in the forest region, people have always liked

to paint matryoshka-dolls with berries or baskets full of bright berries.

This tradition still exists.

3. Big Traditional matryoshka Marina from Sergiev Posad

It was a long-established tradition in Russian toy-making trade to manufacture

hollow wooden dolls, one inserted into the other. Put in a row, the dolls are all

many coloured and different. The big matryoshka is from 13 cm high, the smallest

one is about 2 cm.

4. Matryoshka Rowan

This is a beautiful wooden hand-painted matryoshka-doll from

Sergiev Posad. Wearing a spring of Rowan protected from charms.

5. Uncommon Matryoshka Mummy

This toy is unusual. Several dolls have "hairy". The idea is that Matryoshka dolls

represent the motherhood. This set includes a grandma, a grandson, a

granddaughter, a dog and a cat.

6. Matryoshka Whistle

It is a wooden hand-painted whistle of traditional shape. It develops

children lungs, breath rhythm and ear for music.

7. Cork-tumbler with the burned-in pattern Boyarinya

A musical matryoshka-nevalyashka (a doll originally called Vanka-

Vstanka with a weight attached to the base which makes it always to

recover its upright position). It is an ancient Russian toy.

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8. Nesting doll of Sergiev Posad Angel

Religious motifs in Russian matryoshka paintings are connected with the fact that

this sort is deeply rooted in Old Russian iconographic traditions. Very often the

painter concentrated mainly on the figure, face of the person. This tradition of the

Old Russian art came from Byzantium where this technique came from ancient

Rome.

9. 500 Years of Romanovs

The smallest doll represents the founder of the dynasty- Mikhail Feodorovich-born

in 1596. He is followed by Catherine 1, born in 1684. Peter 3 (the middle doll),

born in 1728 was married to Catherine the Great. Next is Alexander 2, born in

1818. And finally, the end of the Romanovscame in 1917 when Nicholas 2 was,

together with his family, shot on July 17, 1917. So here, in a nutshell, are 5

centuries of the Romanov rulers.10. Matryoshka Kolobok We can see the characters from the famous Russian tale for children.

11. Repka (the Turnip) Matryoshka Doll

You will find the whole tale inside a wooden doll. This set includes six characters;

the Grandpa, the Grandmother, the Granddaughter, the dog, the cat and the mouse.12. Matryoshka Thimble

It is very small and is mainly used as a souvenir.

13. Matryoshka - Pencil

14. Carousel with matryoshkas

This handmade toy amuses children while helping to develop a game with

a plot and imagination in a playful environment.

15. Matryoshka - decoration for Christmas tree

16. Matryoshka – Pen

17. Matryoshka-Bell

18. Matryoshka - Egg–

19. Matryoshka- Rattle for little children

20. Matiyoshka - Tip-Toy is a real fun for children

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21.Matryoshka - Toothpicks

Holder 22. Matryoshka –

magnet

23. Matryoshka-pencil

The traditional Sergiev Posad nesting doll came into existence in the mid-

1920s. It was based on the first nesting doll painted by Sergei Malyutin. His doll

was a girl in a national dress, sometimes holding a small object in her hands - a

chicken, a basket, a bundle, a scarf. Matryoshka is a beautiful Russian national

souvenir with Russian traditions and history. This wooden doll decorates any place.

It keeps the warmth of the hands of the craftsman. You can see lots of them in the

Toy Museum in Sergiev Posad and also buy them in shops.

A Molded Paper Toy

A molded paper toy (papier-mache) appeared and immediately became

popular at the beginning of the 19th century. It was made with ready wooden billet-

models carved by the best craftsmen. The billets were pasted with paper and left to

dry, next the paper form was cut into two parts and glued again. Then it was

primed, sanded, and finally coated with a thick layer of varnish. This long and

painstaking process required participation of all family members. The methods

were passed from generation to generation. The modeled toys were conspicuous

for their variety. In the late 19th century in Sergiev Posad 7000 specimens existed.

These unique toys are to be seen in the museum of Sergiev Posad. At the turn of

the 19th and 20th centuries a massive campaign for preserving popular art and toy

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craft was launched in Russia. Artists and historians started private toy collections.

In that period the first toy exhibitions were held in 1890 and 1909.

Diverse toy crafts appeared at different times and were shaped under

different historic conditions. Their development was influenced by the density of

population, economy, and location of a particular settlement. Each area had its own

toy school. Toy masters of different districts had their own secrets and certain

techniques concerning both mechanical and artistic side of the industry.

Professional craftsmen established their own schools which made it so easy to

identify clay figurines from Kargopol, Tula, and Vyatka, wooden toys from the

suburbs of Nizhni Novgorod and the village of Bogorodsk of the Moscow region.

Sergiev Posad is the Capital of Toy KingdomNow Sergiev Posad is called the capital of the toy kingdom. The Toy

Museum was established in Moscow in 1918 by the artist N.D. Bartman. In 1921 it

was transferred to Sergiev Posad. The depositories of the museum boast 30,000

exhibits, among which are the toys found in archeological collections from

Oriental countries and Western Europe, popular toys made of wood, clay and

papier-mashe toys.

The play-pretties illustrate various subjects: merry-go-rounds with moving

figures of horsemen, a glutton devouring with a bear, a guide with a bear, a girl on

a swing, dancers, musicians.

From the old times there existed a doll, a ball, a toy horse. Over the centuries

they remain favourite things for children. A toy horse, which came to us from the

ancient days, carries his “pedigree” from cult horses, the representation of which

was obligatory at the pagan rituals. The trotting of a horse symbolized for ancient

Slavs the sun rolling in the sky, and that is why the sun was represented in the

image of a horse. In later times some of the craftsmen painted their toy horses in

red – this is the reminder of the myths about the horse-sun. The pagan legends

were echoed in poems of Sergei Esenin:

“Descend appear Red Horse,

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Harness thyself in Shafts of Earth…”

«Словно я весенней гулкой ранью

Проскакал на розовом коне»

In the late 19th century a mass production of toys shaped on a lathe was

launched in Sergiev Posad. The most noted among them were matryoshkas.

Matryoshka of Sergiev Posad is celebrated as the best Russian souvenir.

The museum boasts a rich assortment of wooden toys from the neighboring

village of Bogorodsk. The favorite personage of these toys is a funny bear. A wide

assortment of toys from Filimonovskoye in the Tula region is on show.

Clay toys are represented by remarkably warm and bright figurines from the

Dymkovskaya settlement near Vyatka. Clay dolls from Filimonovskoye are

decorated with extraordinary rhythmically alternating stripes of green, yellow, and

red. The toys from Kargopyl of the Arkhangelsk region, Skopino and Vyrkovo of

the Ryazan region, porcelain figurines from Verbilki of the Moscow region are

displayed in the museum. With the passage of time dolls gradually changed,

becoming movable.

The toy collection displays various types of playthings. The toys are made

with love and they can be ranged among the fine samples of the Russian applied

arts. The museum is very interesting to visit for children and grown-ups.

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The list of terms

1. Panagia - круглая икона, изображающая Божью Матерь.

2. Papier-mache- папье-маше. Популярная лепная бумажная игрушка,

т.е. из папье-маше, появилась в начале 19 века. Деревянные

«болвашки» обклеивали бумагой, сушили, бумажную форму резали

на две части и склеивали. Потом грунтовали, шкурили и

окрашивали. Под конец густо покрывали лаком.

3. Icon- икона- (от греч. Eikon – образ, изображение) проникновение в

мир сверхъестественный через предмет материального мира.

4. Cross- крест- главный знак христиан. Это символ спасения. Когда

мы крестимся, мы как бы связываем в себе все злое, подтверждаем

свою верность Богу и готовность бороться со своими недостатками.

Крест творит жизнь, оживляет нашу душу.

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