The snuff-box town
The snuff-box town
Water-colour pictures were drawn by russian children on a tale written by Vladimir Odoevsky in XIX century. At that period musical boxes were very popular and museum restorer Mikhail Guriev kindly demonstrated how the heroes of the tale looked like: bells, small hammers, cylinder and spring-princess, as well as their real sounds. Dreaming boy has appproached the wonderfull shuff-box so close that he saw a misterious life inside...