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Cover: Russian lacquered box by Nikolai Soloninkin -- Fedoskino
Linda Jackson, wife of Moscow Bureau Chief James O. Jackson and a collector of the boxes, then journeyed 24 miles north of Moscow to the village of Fedoskino. There she found Nikolai Soloninkin, who holds the title of "merited artist" at the town's famous miniature-painting studio. Artisans of Fedoskino and the nearby village of Danilkovo are believed to have originated the genre, and their exquisitely rendered village scenes and portraiture remain unparalleled. Soloninkin, 42, spent ten days painting Gorbachev's likeness on a 4 3/4-in. by 6-in. papier-mache box that had been slow baked...
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