Artifacts Collection: Russia and Neighbors

BOX Pt.1
Audiotapes
Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Children’s Chorus/Chimes of Bells
w/information sheet
Russian Pop and Rock Music II

Books
Children’s Russian language book
A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union
Kocthoma Hapodhoro (in Russian) (picture book-ethnic clothing)
Let’s Visit the Soviet Union: A Passport Sticker Book
Russia Today (teaching unit w/transparencies)
Russia: A Literature Based Multicultural Unit
Teacher’s Booklet

Magazines
National Geographic
"A Broken Empire" (March 1993)
"The Great Soviet Exodus" (February 1992)
"Mother Russia on a New Course" (February 1991)
"People of the Long Spring" (February 1983)
"Russia’s Baikal: The World’s Greatest Lake" (June 1992)
"Siberia in From the Cold" (March 1990)

Newspapers
Russian newspaper (1993)

Pictures and Paintings
Russian children’s paintings
Church of St. Basil, Moscow
General view of Moscow, Russia
Tsar Kolokol, Moscow (Czar of Bells)
Winter Palace, St. Petersburg

Realia
Children’s story cards (4 pairs)
Cups (2) (laquerware)
Folk doll (large)
Folk toys (small) (2; 1 w/instrument, 1 w/chef’s hat)
Lapel pins (12)
Matryoshki (nesting dolls) (2) (1set of 4, yellow coat; l set of 5, red coat)
Pens (2) and brooch (1) (lacquerware)
Photos
Vladimir
Postcards
Moscow
Moscow Kremlin
Vladimir
Shopping bag (plastic)
Soup bowls (2) (lacquerware)
Spoon set (3) with hanger (lacquerware)
Spoons (6) (not a set) (lacquerware)
Vladimir tourist items
Address book
Copper etching of Gates
Model of Golden Gates
Woman’s kitchen apron
Wooden eggs (2)

BOX Pt.2
Books
Baba Yaga (Russian Folktale)
Children’s paperback books (in Russian)
ISBN5080004290 (moon on front)
ISBN 508004169 (boy wearing coat)
A Guide: Moscow (1988)
Just Enough Russian: How to Get By and Be Easily Understood (Passport Books)
Little Russian Cookbook (w/bookmark) (in pkg. w/food samples)
The Mitten (Ukrainian folktale)
Molly’s Pilgrim
101 Recipes of Old Russia (in pkg. w/food samples)
Rise of Russia (Great Ages of Man series)
Russia (teaching unit w/12 transparencies)
Soviet Union1991
Vladimir (in Russian)

Realia
Bashlyk (tasseled hood-like head covering (repro) (Caucasus)
Box with lid (lacquerware)
Cutting board (lacquerware)
Folk dolls (2) (small)
Foods and spices, dried (5) (4 in 1 pkg. also includes 2 recipe books, 6 postcards)
Celery
Coriander
Dill
Pepper
Russian tea (in box) (in separate bag)
Fur hat (Russian)
Handkerchiefs for little girls (3)
Ladle (Russian lacquerware)
Neck scarf, child’s (Communist Party)
Paper flags (3) (miniature)
Byelorus
Ukraine
USSR (old)
Postcards about food (6) (in pkg. with food samples and cookbooks)
Russian coins: 3 coins, various ruble denominations (enclosed in Plexiglas)
Russian flag and stand (small)
Scarf, woman’s
Slippers, hand-knit (1 pair)
Soviet coins: 7 coins (ruble denominations: 5, 10, 10, 15, 20, 50) (enclosed in Plexiglas)
Soviet Union currency: 7 bills (ruble denominations: 1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100)
Sugar/condiment bowl (lacquerware)
Table runner w/matching napkins (2) and apron (red and yellow)
Wall hangers (2) (lacquerware)
Woodcarving: farmer w/horse and sled hauling wood (in red bag)

Bag Pt.3
Maps
Arctic Ocean / Peoples of the Arctic (Nat’l Geographic, Feb 1983)
Russia and the Newly Independent Nations of the Former Soviet Union /
Communism to Capitalism (Nat’l Geographic, March 1993)
Soviet Union / Peoples of the Soviet Union (Nat’l Geographic, Feb 1976)
Soviet Union / Soviet Union (info) (Nat’l Geographic, March 1990)
The World: The Surface of the World (Creative Teaching Press, 1992)

Posters
St. Basil’s Cathedral / information (Discovery Posters, 1992)
Russia (girls eating ice cream) / Matryoska dolls, info
Russia to 1917 (display/reference unit) (laminated sheets)
1. The Earliest Inhabitants of Russia
2. Russia Becomes Christian
3. Early Russia - Kiev and Novgorod
4. The Tzars of Russia
5. The Peoples of Russia
6. The Architecture of Moscow
7. Old Russia Through Western Eyes
8. Siberia
9. Russia Defeats Napoleon
10. The Revolution of 1905
11. The Bolshevik Revolution - 1917
12. Contents List
13. Russia to 1917 (bulletin board heading)
Vladimir Church (in Russian)

Red Envelope Pt.4
Realia
Russian fan (mounted on tagboard, sealed in plastic)

Websites
Blank & Outline Maps (http://www.geography.about.com/cs/blankoutlinemaps/index.htm)

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