the christmas tree was banned in the soviet union for many years; it was considered a religious relic. the holiday was returned to children by the bolshevik pavel postoshev. on new year's eve 1936, the newspaper pravda published his article in which he suggested: let's organize a good christmas tree for the children for the new year. from that moment the story began. soviet cotton wool toys, professional teachers and methodologists worked on christmas tree decorations, there were such manuals where they advised that you involve children in decorating the christmas tree, my mother and i also decorated it together and i did the same some homemade toys, then there was a catastrophic shortage of christmas tree decorations in the country, which is why soon in the artels...

they launched the production of cotton toys, the craftswoman sculpted each figurine from cotton wool with her own hands, for which they were even called sculptors, soviet-themed toys were created that should have carried such correct patriotic education. by the end of the thirties, the cotton toy in the soviet union became probably the most popular christmas tree decoration. if you look through prescuram prices from forty-one years on...

santa claus in my collection is the one who traveled with me from my childhood, from the age of five, every year i grew and grew, and santa claus became smaller, smaller, smaller, smaller, but i brought him to moscow, he came with me to all the rented apartments, i carefully kept him as a talisman, as a friend from childhood, and then fans and friends began to give him old toys, so over the course of several years, 800 exhibits of his household accumulated...

i remember that in our kindergarten the girls were very actively trying to tear off mustache and beard on cotton santa claus in order to see what kind of face he has, it turns out that these are generally young, handsome guys, now they are stamping, factories use acid paints to make these santa clauses, they are not very sincere, but a cotton toy is well such a joy, the cotton toy

did not live long, very soon it was replaced by glass and plastic decorations. the problem with the cotton toy was that it was precisely this manual labor that required a lot of time to produce it, we tried to somehow mechanize and automate all this, in the shauyaan martel too, they invented a method for stamping cotton christmas tree decorations, that is, they made a mold, glued them together from two halves, painted them... by hand, but still as if glass, glass and cardboard had won. it seemed that this ancient craft had been forgotten in our country, but now there are more and more craftsmen who want to make the good old cotton toy. the bear is another popular character of the soviet christmas tree; modern craftsmen love to make it, like this bear larisa pedos, for example, made it; she came up with ideas for each of her toys. fairy tale

: meet the bear with a sweet tooth, he is friends with the bees and every week they bring him fresh honey, with this barrel he will now go to visit... his friend sultan in the distant country of turlyantia. larisa pedos' bears are never lonely; she sculpts friends and family for them from cotton wool. the sultan, when he was traveling in holland, fell in love with a dry woman and proposed to her. they had two children right there, but the children grew up and went to another country, so it was missing in this palace. children's laughter, they adopted a little african bear, images of new heroes, as larisa says, arise in her in different ways: either she sees a funny bear in a store, then in the hands of some girl, and sometimes the future doll can

be seen in a dream, everyone i’m a bear in general, well, how do i give birth as a child , it’s probably not a quick task, because... offers from girls and boys began to pour in that we would come, we would help you, we would find him, an hour and a half of searching with rustling sounds by the leaves, so i found him, i called him mishka flyer, but what

larisa’s collection doesn’t have are gloomy toys, they all smile, their stories always end well. here is our cinderella, and this is the palace in which she will dance at the ball with the prince, but she is special to us, when the clock strikes 12, her outfits will not turn into rags, as happened in the fairy tale, because they are not magical, but the most real ones, made of cotton wool. what is cotton wool? it is cotton mixed with cellulose. and of course, this cotton is, well, for me this is uzbekistan, this is tashkent, this is samarkand. that ’s why for me, vata, of course, is warmth, the warmth of the earth, the sun, and melon, even

a smell. from this warm material, artist dina khaichenko can make anything , toys, interior items. she was captivated by the fact that for 25 years now she has not stopped experimenting with this material. i soak cotton wool through and through with clester, and simply by sticking it in, i don’t

leave any air there, due to this i get a real cotton fiber pad, and the strength increases significantly, and one day she noticed that cotton passed perfectly. i started making color lamps in the nineties, when it was impossible to buy anything at all in stores, but suddenly i made myself some kind of light bulb from cotton wool, then my friends asked me to make another light bulb with a shade, and so it goes, today light is made from cotton wool the master creates entire fairy-tale worlds, for example, the castle in which she danced. cinderella, and these are her beautiful outfits. cinderella, it seemed to me that she was in a magical palace, suddenly she saw herself in the mirror and said: “oh, i’m the one who ended up in a fairy tale.” i made such glowing magic mirrors, they are so lush and fabulous. the frames of these mirrors

are very reminiscent of the platbands that can be seen on ancient houses in st. petersburg, which is not surprising, because dina lives there. conquered even professional connoisseurs; her works are in the collections of the russian museum in

private collections around the world. the gallery has been working with dina for a long time, and these are simply wonderful, very special toys that always create a feeling of celebration, in the presence of which any adult again turns into a small child. i i make christmas tree decorations from cotton wool dolls , because when you hold a christmas tree decoration in your hands, then of course you immediately find yourself in some kind of childhood, in a fairy tale, what kind of christmas tree decorations have not been invented today, but for me cotton wool ones are special, it feels like they still retain the warmth of their hands.

know that i am with you forever, even where you cannot reach, cities, big cities, hide you from me, let an air kiss fly, wherever you are now. you know how, i love you, i

dreamed about you today, the clouds are floating to moscow, i know not sooner and not too late, the clouds are floating to moscow, and people are rushing to their nests, you can’t be found in this city and it’s such a shame, the clouds are floating monya. only they can see everything from the sky, the planes are sailing to moscow, i know, it’s not too early and not too late, it’s okay. will float to moscow, and people are rushing to their nests, in this city you can’t be found and it’s such a shame, but while monya is floating, all the sky is visible, good morning, dear friends,

after sweeping away and traffic jams ahead, and we want to give you good music, stay with us on the waves of our radio station. dimka, get up, everything is as usual, let's go, let's go for a walk, rocky, let's go. right now, what am i doing right now, well, excuse me, good morning olga teodorovna, and good alyonushka to you, well, like the tanker still hasn’t vacated the bathroom, no, you know

that hygiene comes first for him, i think so, good morning, good, hello , you've occupied the hottest comfort for a long time, otherwise i'm going to cook soup, the eggs are already ready, and i'm freeing the comfort, uh-huh, thank you, you're on the second week today, uh-huh, you won't take my boys from the garden, i'll take them , thank you, and i am yours i’ll feed dimka some soup, thank you, mom, ah, my dear, here you go, this is for you and not to fight today, promise, is that a joke? the redheads were the first to start, and two against one is not fair, honestly, honestly, i stood up for my brother, good morning, good, go, get dressed , i’ll take it for you, i’ll be late, alen, you ’ll pick up the children, yes, don’t worry , thank you, cash, cash, it’s with you now, m, here, take it, i’m pishkov, bye, good morning, olga, we still haven’t

washed ourselves, good, but where are we, sitting in the bathroom for hours. great, great i washed myself, but i didn’t have time, so i guess they didn’t wait, i’m leaving with a light steam, makarich, thank you, but again and again i earnestly ask you not to occupy the bathroom for so long in the morning, what’s your hurry, olga todorovna, we will always make it to the graveyard, usurper, but i let ritka and the children go ahead. so, makaroch, we are thrown into the general world, where is your share? how many do you need? well, as usual, 72 rubles per room. and i can run to the savings bank myself. semyon makarch, it’s dangerous to trust you with such a sum. don't worry, i'll go.

and again, hello dear friends, listeners, we don’t stop for a second, we continue our morning broadcast on the wave of our beloved, ha-ha, the radio station is with you, we don’t stop, we continue to rock, semyon petrovich, with cherries, as you like, yeah, how much sour cream should i put in? thank you, come on, come on, come on, relish, you are a gorgeous girl, katerina mikolovna, and you are good-looking, and you prepare a delicious meal, i would just go ahead and

get married, so why don’t you get married?

i sat in the car all night.