In the modern world, household items replace each other faster and faster. This book will tell about things that regularly served a person during the 20th century, and now they have taken a place not only in pantries and attics, but also in museums. The reader will learn how water was heated in a samovar, washed with a roll and ironed with a ruble, why a teapot and a "rogue" cartridge are needed, and how metal balls from a bed and steel feathers can be used in boyish games.
The author of the book, Leonid Vasilievich Belovinsky, is a doctor of historical sciences, professor, author of many books on the history of everyday life, material culture and Soviet life. He tells the history of things as the history of the development of human thought, as the history of the country, and as his personal history, mostly dating back to the 20th century.
The book is accompanied by a "portrait gallery" of things - drawings by Christina Valenkova. The design used photographs from the Central State Archive of Film, Photo, and Audio Documents, the Rossiya Segodnya agency, and private family archives. Most of the photos are published for the first time.
Author: Leonid Belovinsky
Pages: 112 (coated). Hard cover
Dimensions: 232x300 mm
