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How valuable are your hands?

Posted by Maison Russe on Dec 9th 2020

How valuable are your hands? What an awful question! Obviously, our hands have enormous value - they are invalua

Posted by Maison Russe on Nov 30th 2020

What are Royal Workshop Collections? We bring together unique items into each Royal Workshop Collection in order to rec

Posted by The Russian Shop on Jun 8th 2020

Polonne and Kiev: Ceramics Factories in Ukraine. Polonne is a city on the Khomora River in the Khmelnitsky region in weste

Posted by Students at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois on May 23rd 2020

Focusing on Maison Russe. In late February of this year, students of photography from the nearby College of DuPage, in Glen

Posted by The Russian Gift Shop on Jul 13th 2018

Khokhloma (Хохлома)Golden Khokhloma (Золотая Хохлома) is the joy of Russian arts and crafts. It is an esteemed and old p

Posted by The Russian Gift Shop on Jul 7th 2018

Matryoshka dolls from Polkhovsky Maidan (Полховский Майдан) and the neighboring villages of Krutets and Gorodets appeal to th