this town appeared in 1697, on the bank of the lesnaya river tambov with the tsar's permission christian a settlement, which was later named in his honor. even then, people here began to engage in various crafts. their business continues today. for example, in this house. lives the famous weaver, tatyana kareva. i wanted some rugs for my home, warm and cozy, like the ones we had as children, i saw they were for sale, i saw that they were made in india, i felt so offended, i thought , what is this, my grandmother wove, my mother knitted, we knitted, we sew, this spurred me on even more, no, i will do it myself, since i can’t find it anywhere, and my mother advised me, go, tanya, to ours. on this machine, alexandra pavlovna ivleva wove a product for the entire raskalovsky district and she was a top-class craftswoman, as it turned out later. it turns out that in our there were two workshops. when i looked at how the threads play, how beautiful they are, how the canvas is born , how such spiritual beauty comes from the chaos of threads, and i began to wonder what else could be woven, my husb