"One of the miracles created by the revolution" called lacquer boxes Maxim Gorky. "Our life now will be as beautiful as our pictures and boxes. Our soggy repousse work on revolution has shifted a large free art "- confirmed Ivan Golikov, first Palekh.
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The revolution has driven the firm ground from under the feet of the village of Palekh icon painters. April 25, 1919 VI VTsIK Lenin signed the decree "On measures to support the cottage industry. Crafts henceforth declared inviolable. Artist Ivan Golikov saw in the handicrafts museum in Moscow Fedoskino lacquered boxes made of papier-mache and quickly took over this technology. Starts with the now famous throughout the world Palekh lacquer craft. This happened in 1922. Reborn from the shell of churchliness Palekh walked together with the country. Joining together in the "gang of ancient art, the artists of the" divinely inspired "icons straight ended up in the nascent Socialist Realism. Not without the help of violent Proletcult Palekh, seeking to comply with a collective style of the era, sought his way. His interpretation of the new doctrine were primitive, because at first the peasant icon painters do not understand what they write in "Soviet boxes.
Young country needed foreign currency. "From paper to make gold" was the imperative of Palekh. Tips selling art, as palace and museum masterpieces, and crafts. Demand for varnish inside the country was low - but Palech knew very fashionable women of Paris, American collectors, foreign artists. From former icon painters needed propaganda "fairy tale". Palekh and Fedoskino, Mstera, Kholui boxes turned into little cogs of indoctrination - the so-called agitlak.