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Toys pre-revolutionary and the Soviet period. Dolls, naked dolls. Clay, ceramic, rubber and soft toys. Board games. Playing cards. Fur-tree decorations- wadding, cardboard, glass, on spins. Grandfathers Frosts and Snow Maidens. Souvenirs, initiated to Olympiad, etc.
Chrisrmas decoration stuff
In Russia the custom to meet New year at night since December, 31st for January, 1st has entered by Peter the Great , and he commanded that the fur-tree became the main New Year's tree. But really custom to dress up a fur-tree before Christmas has come to Russia at Nikolay the First times. His spouse, empress Alexander Fedorovna, has carried custom to Russia to decorate dwelling by fyr-tree with burning candles. For decoration of fur-trees began to make various toys. Development of branch of christmas-tree decorations has interrupted after revolution of 1917, when new governance noticed in a New Year tree a vestige of a bourgeois society, ideological threat of the Soviet authority. Manufacture of New Year's decorations has stopped also. Till 1935 celebrating of Christmas and New year was under an interdiction. But, since 1935 the conveyor on manufacture of Russian national New Year's utensils has worked very actively. Toys 1930-1970-õ years are various and frequently are reflection of political changes in the country. New Year always was and remains the most liked holiday in Russia. Today in fashion is Vintage decor of a fur-tree and returning of a fashion to the Soviet attributes.
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