Written by Lucy Maxym, an authority on Russian Lacquer, the book contains a comprehensive discussion of the techniques of the art as well as a history of the four villages where the artists live and work.

Introduction  6

The Fairy Tales

Twelve Months  9

The Scarlet Flower  13

Emelya and the Magic Pik  19

The Princess and the Seven Bogatyrs  22

Silver Hoof  28

The Seven Semeons  32

Fenist the Falcon  36

The Flying Ship  42

The Tale of the Young Guard and the Merchant Kalashnikov  46

Sivka-Burka  50

Maria Morevna  54

The Three Kingdoms  60

Sleeping Beauty  60

The Storytellers

The Boyan, The Scirbes  61

Alexander Pushkin  61

The Defenders of Ancient Rus

The Mighty Bogatyrs, The Peasant Heros, The Folk Heros

Ilya Murometz,Dobrinya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich  62

Solovey Budimirovich 66

Volkh Vseslavevich  67

Nikita Kozhemyaka  67

Churillo Plenkov  68

Mikula Selyaninovich  68

Stepan Razin  69

The Rulers

Oleg the Wise  70

Peter the Great  70

Alexander Nevsky  71

Dimitry Donskoy  71

Boris Godunov  72

Treasures from the Four Villages

Palekh  73

Mstera  77

Fedoskino  78

Kholui  80