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Do you know who is Dunno, Mursilka, Dude or Paru-chan? We didn’t know, but now can tell you about them.
Recently shop SovietDacha received a request for a book of Russian author Nikolay Nosov "Dunno adventures" published in Soviet era with illustrations by Alexei Laptev.
Dunno's Adventures by Nosov with Laptev's illustrations

We found this book and shipped it to Japan. The buyer of the book, and now the friend of our shop told us the story that formed the basis of this article for you.

Beautiful pictures of products from different Soviet porcelain factories were published in the Soviet encyclopedia of the household in 1966.

Soviet porcelain picture from Encyclopedia of the household

But it was difficult to buy porcelain tableware in Soviet times. In the stores there were queues to buy the usual plates.

Soviet people gave tableware sets on holidays and definitely on the wedding to each other. Ordinary workers didn't collect figurines or utensils of certain factories. A lot of people have found out the difference between the value of the products of the porcelain factories only after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

IUntil the reign of Tsar Peter I the Orthodox Church celebrated the beginning of the new year the 1st of September. The celebrating the new civil year and the Church were closely intertwined. The 1700 in Russia celebrated twice. First on 1 Sep. At the end of 1699 Peter I issued a decree "on the celebration of the new year." He was ordered to postpone the beginning of the year from 1 September to the 1st of January 1700. Peter I ordered to decorate the house "pine, spruce and juniper branches on samples exposed in Gostiny Dvor; in the sign of fun each other be sure to congratulate happy new year".
The decree of Peter I about New year celebration