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http://www.artinaction.org.uk/homepage.html this site gives information about Art in Action, an annual gathering of artists from around the world held near Oxford. Mikhail Dvornikov exhibited his work and demonstrated his carving there in early 2000. Verena Watson who works for Art in Action made it possible for us to make contact with
Mikhail who is now back in his home village. This charity can be contacted by email on moreinfo@artinaction.org.uk
Type www.google.com then search for Bogorodskoye carving the sites here are mainly commercial but do show photographs of various examples of the carving of the region.
http://www.moscow.lvl.ru/culture/museum/decprikl/edecprik.html shows examples of traditional arts and crafts from different areas of Russia exhibited in a Moscow museum specialising in folk art.
http://www.thesculpturestudio.com/wood1.htm shows pictures and gives descriptions of a wide range of woodcarving tools.
http://members.aol.com/MHoll/Tales/RussianFolktalePage.html Russian folk tales and folk belief a very interesting site.
