Word: krytikova
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Dates: during 2009-2009
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...Marina Krytikova sits at her kitchen table, the smoke from her cigarette mixing with the smell of lacquer as two doll sets dry on the tablecloth. The bellies of the roly-poly dolls depict stylized Russian scenes of dashing horses, young lovers and soaring eagles that Krytikova has copied over the years out of books of fairy tales, from greeting cards and even off the tops of cake boxes. "When I'm working, I forget about everything," she says as she peers over her glasses to paint intricate curlicues on the body of a large doll. "I forget about family...
...crisis has become harder and harder to ignore, even as Krytikova is surrounded by more than 30 dolls that, when completed, will represent about $190 worth of merchandise for three days of work. "In 1999, we were able to buy a car, a garage, send one son to university and renovate our apartment on the money my husband and I made from making matryoshki," she says. "But today, you make such a small amount of money for such devilishly complicated work." She notes that since October, she's had to cut her prices by about $4 per doll. Factor...
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