Talachkino. L'art décoratif des ateliers de la Princesse Ténichef
A French-language survey of the peasant-craft workshops run by Princess Maria Tenisheva at Talashkino near Smolensk, written by Sergei Makovsky with Nicholas Roerich and published in St Petersburg in 1906 for collectors and decorative artists abroad. Nearly 200 photographic plates show carved and painted furniture, doorways, cradles, balalaikas, embroidery and ceramics, supplying stylized Russian folk motifs: firebirds, horses, sunflowers, chip-carved borders and flat geometric field patterns.
