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autumn Still Life

Autumn still life on Russian.

Lapti - shoes, widespread in Russia in the old days, and the former in wide use in the countryside until the 1930s, Academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences I. Lepekhin at the end of the XVIII century, wrote that required two major and three or four small linden trunk for the manufacture of a pair of lapti. In the year the farmer, wearing 50 to 60 pairs of lapti.

Now lapti often occupy a central place in the expositions of some museums.

 

 

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Uploaded on October 12, 2016
Taken on October 17, 2012