Folk Art
The Russian Museum collection of folk art is one of the largest in the country. It reflects all the main types of folk decorative art from the prominent local centres of crafts and folk arts and allows to trace their development over the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
Works from the collection «Folk Art»
Kvas jug
Last third of the 18th century
Towel
19th centuryOlonets Gubernia
Horse
19th centuryArkhangelsk Gubernia
Moss spirits
Early 20th centuryVyatka Gubernia
Lady and Hussar
19th centurySergiev Posad, Moscow Gubernia
Troika
Ivan Golikov1926Palekh, Ivanovo Region
Cavalry. Valance
Elizaveta Zvezdina1940 г.Kirishi District, Leningrad Region
Mother of Large Family
Zoya Penkina1961 г. Kirov