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Walking about the Busy Fair…
22.05.2010
It was a busy day of May, 22, for the “Town of Masters”, which occupied four central alleys of the park. There were displayed souvenirs to various tastes. Many masters had prepared their works specially for the holiday of “Sholokhov Spring”. There were ornamental dishes, wooden plates, handmade scrappy dolls like those “made by grannies”, clay toys, photographs, ceramics, wicker furniture, famous nested dolls “matryoshka”, Cossack outfit, sabres and whips, papakhas and felt cloaks, hoods and many other things which aroused enthusiastic delight in the residents and guests of Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya.
The painters exposed their landscapes of their native places. The “Souvenir Shop” of the State M.A. Sholokhov Museum-Reserve sold the wares of masters from the Museum Arts and Crafts department: the Cossack clay pots, jugs, pitchers, souvenir mugs and cups, boxes and wine decanters, bread-plates, sugar-basins and others. All sold well.
A priest asked the price of a Cossack blade, trying the sheath and the blade shining in the sun. Close by, some girls before a mirror were trying on painted shawls from Pavlov Posad. A boy bought at a bargain a good balalaika for 500 roubles. Ceramic toys of master Serghey Gurskiy, wooden articles of master Georghiy Fedotov from Vyoshenskaya, scrappy handmade dolls by Lena Kuznetsova from Rostov-on-Don, marvellous laces by Olga Zubkova were in great demand.
As usual it was very nice of the Rostov bookshop assistants of “OAO “Rostovkniga” to make a good choice of books for selling: the works by Sholokhov, literary classics, a collection edition of “Encyclopaedia of American Jass” in CD.
Again the fair was a success. In the busy “Town of Masters” everyone could choose a souvenir keepsake to remember about the jubilee “Sholokhov Spring”.
S. Gribanov
