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Secret Gingerbread recipe puts Gorodets on the map
(9 Mar 2019) LEADIN:
The discovery of a centuries-old secret recipe has put the oldest city in the Ninzy Novgorod region back on the map.
Gingerbread has often been a feature of well-known folklore, but here in Gorodets, the gingerbread handicraft has made a revival.
STORYLINE:
These centuries-old wooden carvings are used to make gingerbread.
Their intricate designs imprint onto the baked goods or 'pryanik' in Russian.
Just like this large carving of a rooster on display.
Anastasia Suvorova is the head of the gingerbread production at her factory called 'Gingerbread Artel of Suvorovs'.
She and her family have been running the factory for 20 years now after finding the secret recipe in their house.
They sell the gingerbread to local cafes and bakeries.
Historically, gingerbread recipes have always been kept within the family, within Old Believers family (Eastern Orthodox Christians who existed prior to the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666). Often the Old Believers had to hire workers and in order to ensure that the recipe would not be stolen, the workers hired workers were strictly forbidden to bring any exact weighing scales inside the gingerbread factory - neither weights nor any specific measurement devices. It was strictly forbidden. All were weights were coded under the names of secret objects - stones, horseshoes, says Suvorova.
We found such a recipe in our house, and this was the beginning of our enterprise. The recipe said - three white flour stones, two molasses horseshoes, one black honey stone and so on. This is how recipes were encrypted because each gingerbread baker was proud of their own recipe and invention.
Gingerbread cookies were prepared mostly in the summer - when the berries ripened and bees were active.
Gingerbread's long shelf life meant people could keep them until the winter - when the Orthodox church celebrated Christmas and the Epiphany.
The Old Believers gingerbread patterns were said to be used as propaganda to oppose the Patriarch Nikon's of Moscow church reform.
Primarily, the families of the Old Believers were engaged in gingerbread baking, and these were so-called propaganda leaflets, which were distributed in the form of gingerbread in support of the old regime, opposing Nikon's church reform, explains Suvorova.
This led to Gorodet's gingerbread being outlawed, and in its place, their main competitor, Tula gingerbread became the region's most popular.
The oldest preserved baking patterns date back to 1775 and are kept in the museum.
In the 18th century around 85 masters produced gingerbread in Gorodets which were supplied not only to the capital St. Petersburg but also to Siberia in exchange for furs.
The price of a kilogram of gingerbread was comparable to the cost of a cow.
And the wooden carved baking moulds were even more expensive says Svetlana Yakovleva of Gorodets Historical and Artistic Complex.
The cost varied. A kilogram of (gingerbread) could cost 4 rubles (6 USD). Smaller ones cost a few kopecks, says Yakovleva.
I want to mention the price of gingerbread moulds. The cost of gingerbread moulds varied from 3 (4USD) to 15 rubles (23 USD) in silver. It was a lot of money for that time, one could buy a house, a cow, a horse for this price.
Today the Gorodestky gingerbread has become so popular a whole museum is dedicated to the treat.
The museum displays vast collections of carved moulds and gingerbreads made several centuries ago.
And the technology has not changed today.
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Description: Russians consider Rublev their greatest icon-painter, the artist whose work epitomizes all that is most excellent in Russian medieval painting of the 14th century. He exceeded all other medieval artists in the art of blending the severe rules and traditions of Byzantine Christian art with Russia's dreamier conception of beauty and with the pensive, introspective outlook evoked by the impact of Italian sentiment upon Slavic imagination. Although Rublev's Deesis, destroyed by fire in 1547, is the only icon mentioned on aesthetic grounds in medieval chronicles, almost as little is known about Rublev's life as that of Theophanes. He was born in Pskov, probably about 1370, and he is known to have painted the walls of the Cathedral of the Assumption at Vladimir, but these murals were so badly restored early in the 20th century that they now throw no light on Rublev's early manner. The first actual mention of Rublev is in 1405 when he - along with Theophanes the Greek and Prokhor of Gorodets - executed a number of panel paintings and religious murals for the Cathedral of the Annunciation in the Moscow Kremlin. See also: Christian Art, Byzantine Period.
At some unspecified period in his life, Rublev became a monk of the Spas Andronievski Monastery in Moscow, but there is nothing to show whether he studied under Theophanes before taking his vows or some time after 1395, when Theophanes moved to Moscow. All that we know is that Rublev never left Moscow after entering the Spas Andronievski Monastery, and that most of his work was done in and around the city. Since his surviving works are to be found either at Vladimir or in Moscow, Rublev is often classified as a master of either the Vladimir-Suzdal or early Muscovite school, but the ingredients of his style derive mainly from the Novgorod school of icon painting.
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Secret Gingerbread recipe puts Gorodets on the map
(9 Mar 2019) LEADIN:
The discovery of a centuries-old secret recipe has put the oldest city in the Ninzy Novgorod region back on the map.
Gingerbread has often been a feature of well-known folklore, but here in Gorodets, the gingerbread handicraft has made a revival.
STORYLINE:
These centuries-old wooden carvings are used to make gingerbread.
Their intricate designs imprint onto the baked goods or 'pryanik' in Russian.
Just like this large carving of a rooster on display.
Anastasia Suvorova is the head of the gingerbread production at her factory called 'Gingerbread Artel of Suvorovs'.
She and her family have been running the factory for 20 years now after finding the secret recipe in their house.
They sell the gingerbread to local cafes and bakeries.
Historically, gingerbread recipes have always been kept within the family, within Old Believers family (Eastern Orthodox Christians who existed prior to the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666). Often the Old Believers had to hire workers and in order to ensure that the recipe would not be stolen, the workers hired workers were strictly forbidden to bring any exact weighing scales inside the gingerbread factory - neither weights nor any specific measurement devices. It was strictly forbidden. All were weights were coded under the names of secret objects - stones, horseshoes, says Suvorova.
We found such a recipe in our house, and this was the beginning of our enterprise. The recipe said - three white flour stones, two molasses horseshoes, one black honey stone and so on. This is how recipes were encrypted because each gingerbread baker was proud of their own recipe and invention.
Gingerbread cookies were prepared mostly in the summer - when the berries ripened and bees were active.
Gingerbread's long shelf life meant people could keep them until the winter - when the Orthodox church celebrated Christmas and the Epiphany.
The Old Believers gingerbread patterns were said to be used as propaganda to oppose the Patriarch Nikon's of Moscow church reform.
Primarily, the families of the Old Believers were engaged in gingerbread baking, and these were so-called propaganda leaflets, which were distributed in the form of gingerbread in support of the old regime, opposing Nikon's church reform, explains Suvorova.
This led to Gorodet's gingerbread being outlawed, and in its place, their main competitor, Tula gingerbread became the region's most popular.
The oldest preserved baking patterns date back to 1775 and are kept in the museum.
In the 18th century around 85 masters produced gingerbread in Gorodets which were supplied not only to the capital St. Petersburg but also to Siberia in exchange for furs.
The price of a kilogram of gingerbread was comparable to the cost of a cow.
And the wooden carved baking moulds were even more expensive says Svetlana Yakovleva of Gorodets Historical and Artistic Complex.
The cost varied. A kilogram of (gingerbread) could cost 4 rubles (6 USD). Smaller ones cost a few kopecks, says Yakovleva.
I want to mention the price of gingerbread moulds. The cost of gingerbread moulds varied from 3 (4USD) to 15 rubles (23 USD) in silver. It was a lot of money for that time, one could buy a house, a cow, a horse for this price.
Today the Gorodestky gingerbread has become so popular a whole museum is dedicated to the treat.
The museum displays vast collections of carved moulds and gingerbreads made several centuries ago.
And the technology has not changed today.
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#Экскурсия в изостудию / Знакомство с #Гжелью #Russian Gzhel - #Russian folk art / Meeting
Сегодня у нас ещё и экскурсия в изостудию! Настя очень рада! В изостудии есть мини-музей Гжель. А у нас есть прекрасная возможность рассмотреть все предметы (статуэтки в виде мышки, дракончика...), нежно-голубая посуда и другие гжельские предметы. Заходите к нам в гости! Это увлекательно, интересно, а главное - познавательно!
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Today we have more and excursion to the art room! Nastia very happy! The art studio has a mini-museum Gzhel. And we have a great opportunity to see all objects (figurines in the form of a mouse, dragon ...), pale blue Gzhel crockery and other items. Come to visit us! It is exciting, interesting, and most importantly - informative!