NP. I really like non-social realist soviet art so it’s cool to see other appreciator.

There’s like different schools of soviet lacquer art, pelekh is just one of them (Although IIRC it’s the one with typically the wildest stuff on it). Some of them are more into doing like miniature landscapes or scenes from fairy tales.

It was basically a form of maintaining the icon painting tradition as religion became less of a dominant force. People needed less icons painted, but people still needed little boxes of stuff.

Wait. Sorry. I’m being boring. I’ll stop there