![]() And it certainly was served on trays,” says Larisa Goncharova, explaining their popularity in Zhostovo in the 19th century. There were a lot of tea houses around, where merchants drank tea. Boats loaded with goods sailed down the Klyazma River to Moscow and they stopped at the customs checkpoint in Mytishchi. “Mytishchi is derived from the word mytnya, which means ‘customs’. ![]() With the abolition of serfdom, the Vishnyakovs had quite a bit of competition: family workshops that produced the same painted iron trays started to emerge in Zhostovo, neighboring Ostashkov, Khlebnikov and other villages of the Troitskaya volost. Trays from the collection of the Nizhny Tagil Museum of tray craft (CC BY-SA 3.0) Korobov bought the lacquer coating recipe in Germany, with Vishnyakov later borrowing the technique. Fedoskino lacquer miniature is also a traditional old Russian craft. It was there that painted lacquer papier-maché boxes started to be produced. Vishnyakov worked as a carriage driver at a rather large free tobacco factory owned by a merchant named Korobov in the neighboring village of Danilkino (now called Fedoskino). ![]() It was thanks to serf peasant Philip Vishnyakov that it, at some point, attracted the attention of the entire Russia. At the time, Zhestovo, as it was formerly called, was part of the Troitskaya volost in Moscow Region. Zhostovo is an old village in Mytishchi near Moscow, known since the early 19th century. So even in the most difficult years for the country, masters tried to preserve and pass on their knowledge of the old Russian craft. While all the men went to the front line, the young girls stayed in their households: they went to the forest to gather firewood, heated their homes and studied. They came as part of humanitarian shipments. During World War II, all of Russia’s iron was sent to the front line, but in the village of Zhostovo, just outside Moscow, a craftsman named Andrei Gogin continued to teach girls the old art of iron tray painting on… American cans.
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