The exhibition features about 70 handmade dolls of 40-80 cm high. All of them are dressed in festive peasant clothes of different regions of Russia: Kursk, Moscow, Ryazan, Smolensk, and Nizhny Novgorod. The collection was formed by three sisters: Galina Yakovleva Sysoeva, Valentina Gorbacheva and Zoya Tkacheva. It took them several long years to collect the exhibits.
In 1993, they founded a private museum of folk costume ‘Starinka’ (‘Old Fashions’). Specialists admired the skill of execution and authenticity of puppet outfits, which minutely replicated the ancient costumes of a given locality. In the USA, a documentary film was made about Galina Sysoeva, Honoured Artist, and Professor of the Voronezh Academy of Arts.
The Boguchar dolls are well known and loved both in Russia and abroad. In 2006, part of the collection was transferred to the Boguchar Museum of Local History. The ‘Dolls in Folk Costumes’ exhibition tells our contemporaries about the life style and traditions of our ancestors; if desired, visitors can be photographed with the exhibits.
In 1993, they founded a private museum of folk costume ‘Starinka’ (‘Old Fashions’). Specialists admired the skill of execution and authenticity of puppet outfits, which minutely replicated the ancient costumes of a given locality. In the USA, a documentary film was made about Galina Sysoeva, Honoured Artist, and Professor of the Voronezh Academy of Arts.
The Boguchar dolls are well known and loved both in Russia and abroad. In 2006, part of the collection was transferred to the Boguchar Museum of Local History. The ‘Dolls in Folk Costumes’ exhibition tells our contemporaries about the life style and traditions of our ancestors; if desired, visitors can be photographed with the exhibits.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.
