the mighty deer is perun the thunderer, a polysemantic image, he is the patron of all earthly and heavenly. makosha or makosh, mokosh, mother earth. such toys were not given into the hands of children, they were protected. there were also portrait compositions that were made as a gift. a full portrait of a family, where the children exactly matched. like girls, boys, such a portrait was often a family heirloom and was kept in the house. the history of the petrovskaya toy is mysterious and abrupt, from what centuries it begins to count, art historians do not know, and in the soviet years it almost got lost in the susaninsky forests. by the way, it is sometimes called susaninskaya, after the name of the village, where they also molded, or as the craftsmen say, pulled. from clay, pots and toys. once upon a time, mikhail sailed to those parts on a kayak shmarov, in those years not yet a folk master, but a forester, who loved to sculpt. he purposefully went ashore, stood up, stood, found just, very few of them were men, villagers, they asked me several times, where are you from, i say, so i sai