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      🖼 Klin Courtyard Christmas Tree Toy Museum (Klinskoe Podvorye)

      Клин, Староямская ул., 4

      A museum at the Yolochka factory: 12 halls of toys from Peter the Great's time to today, a glassblowing shop and a painting shop; you can paint your own bauble.

      Klin Courtyard Christmas Tree Toy Museum (Klinskoe Podvorye)
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      • Klin's Christmas-tree toy craft is considered the oldest in the country; 1887 is traditionally taken as its birth year.
      • The craft's roots are a glassworks of Prince A. S. Menshikov, great-grandson of Peter the Great's Menshikov, opened in 1849.
      • Klin masters began with glass Christmas-tree beads up to four metres long, then moved on to baubles, tiny samovars and figurines.
      • After Christmas was banned in 1929, the glassblowers switched to thermometers and laboratory glassware, and toys came back in 1936 along with the permitted fir trees.
      • The Yolochka factory has refused glassblowing machines and blows its toys by hand, the old way.

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      • Klin: Christmas-tree ornaments and Tchaikovsky's house

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