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The Russian museum of Ethnography
The idea of building a museum collection that captured the lives and cultures of peoples from all over Russia became a reality in the mid-19th century. The Russian Museum of Ethnography in St. Petersburg is home to one of the largest such collections in the world, numbering more than 600,000 items. The wide variety of exhibits includes items that range from things used in everyday life by simple peasants to valuable jewels presented to the imperial family. The museum collection is made up of cultural artifacts from different periods and peoples who at one time or another lived on Russian soil. Join host Maria Mumicheva and travel through time and history at The Russian Museum of Ethnography to learn about the peoples that have inhabited the largest country in the world.
Valentin Vorobiev. The art of blacksmiths
Valentin Vorobyov is a third generation smith working under the artistic pseudony of Metalissimus. In the 1980s, despite his lack of any professional artistic education, he began to work with metal, quickly becoming of the finest in the art in Russia. In the Moscow region village of Korostovo, he has created his own museum of artistic smithery featuring his finest sculptures created using varied techniques, from classical sculptures to techno-art. This film takes a look at his creative path and the family life of this hereditary smith, the traditions of his mastery and the secret of conquering the Louvre.
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Valentin Vorobiev. The art of blacksmiths
Urals gems
Bright as a flame, clear and sparkling like water and born out of emptiness deep beneath the Earth-crystals really are a natural wonder and a product of the elements. They decorate our lives and carry with them an ancient secret. People in the Urals discovered these multi-coloured crystals that seem to dance in the sunlight long ago. They found them in rivers and lakes, while tilling the fields in the spring and simply along the roads after heavy rains. In regular speech people began calling them poetic names such as «eyes of the earth» or, more popularly and accurately, «samosvety» translated to mean «colours themselves.» The Urals' many unique and precious stones soon became famous all over the world and it has been 18 years since they won over the world. The translucent cherry-coloured amethysts from the Urals decorated the tiaras of European empresses while emerald and topaz rings tw...
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