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For many years Russian
craftsmen kept learning to make use of wood, discover its properties, discern
different patterns of wood. Our ancestors amazed the world with wooden
churches and chambers, plates and dishes, furniture, self-propelled carts,
sawing machines, bicycles and even ... pocket watches made of nothing but
wood. Some of these things stayed in legends, some became part of museum
expositions. They appeared to be unclaimed by modern life.
However, elaborate
sets of chess, snuff-boxes, smoking pipes, various caskets which were popular
not only with our great grand mothers and fathers but were readily purchased
by merchants from England, France, Germany and America, have survived as
goods until the present time. They have been constantly improved by the
craftsmen talent.
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