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Palekh

an urban-type settlement and administrative center of Palekh Raion, Ivanovo Oblast, RSFSR. Situated on the Ivanovo-Gorky highway, 30 km east of the Shuia railroad station on the Vladimir-Ivanovo line.

Until the October Revolution of 1917, Palekh was a major center for icon painting in the Russian tradition of the 15th to 17th centuries. In 1924 an artel that specialized in painted papier-mâché items was founded there. Palekh has a drawn-thread embroidery workshop, a flax-processing mill, a milk plant, and other enterprises. It also has an art school and a museum of Palekh art.

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No references found			Palekh is the handicraft of miniature painting with tempera on varnished objects made of papier-mache. `Palekh, From Icons to Souvenir Boxes to Icons' by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) 14) And as Jenks has noted, painters of Palekh (Russian lacquered boxes decorated with intricate depictions of traditional Russian and Russian Orthodox scenes) endured a period of ridicule and persecution as 'god-daubers', before both they and their artwork were rehabilitated, culminating in the exhibition of Palekh in the State Russian Museum, and the ordering of Palekh desk-sets for prominent Soviet figures including Maksim Gorky. Hewn from stone: (re)presenting Soviet material cultures and ... by Moran, Dominique / Journal of Social History Petersburg, Russian Palekh lacquer art, Gzhel porcelain, and portraits of Russian Emperors. What time is it in Russia? by Brent, Jonathan / New Criterion			Palau Palau Independence Day Palaung Palavaram Palawan Palazzeschi, Aldo Palazzo palazzo style palba wax paldao Paldiski Pale pale brick pale catechu pale horse Pale of Settlement pale oil Pale Tussock Moth pale-bodied oil palea Palearctic paleate paleface Paleia paleic surface Palekh Palekh Miniature Palembang Palen, Petr Alekseevich Fon Der Palencia Palenque Paleo -Siberian languages Paleo-Asiatic Languages Paleo-Asiatic Peoples paleoagrostology paleoalgology Paleoanthropology Paleobiocenosis paleobiochemistry paleobioclimatology paleobiocoenosis paleobiology paleobotanic province Paleobotany paleoceanography Paleocene Paleocene Epoch Paleocene Series Epoch paleochannel Paleocharaceae paleoclimate			Paleantology Paleantology Paleantology Palearctic Palearctic Palearctic ecozone Palearctic ecozone paleate PalEcon paled paled paled paled paled Paleechinoidea paleencephalon paleencephalon paleethnology paleface paleface palefaces palefaces Paleg Palegh Paleia paleic surface Paleichthyes paleichthyology Paleis voor Schone Kunsten Palekastro Palekh Palekh miniature palely palely palely palely palely Palembang Palembang Palembang Darussalam Palembang Darussalam Palembang, Indonesia - Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin Ii Palempore Palen, Petr Alekseevich Fon Der Palencia Palencia Palendrome Palendrome Palendrome paleness paleness paleness paleness paleness Palenka Palenology Palenology Palenque Palenque Palenque (village) Palenque, Mexico

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