Our tour description didn’t include any stops on the 9th day, but after we left Kizhi Island we were told that a stop at Goritsi had been added. Goritsi is best known for the Kirillo-Belosersky Monastery which was founded by Ivan the Terrible.
This was also the day that those who wished to could paint their own Matreshka. Matreshkas are Russian nested dolls. The ship’s gift shop had Matreshkas for sale with as few as five nested dolls, and as many as 26. Obviously when there are that many dolls the smallest is tiny and the largest is quite a bit larger than Matreshkas with fewer nested dolls, but the quality of the work is also important. The larger sets were also tighter fitting, that is, each doll had thinner walls, and the smaller doll just fit with minimum room to spare into the next larger doll.
Adrianne painted a "blank" doll, that is, one with a printed outline but otherwise unpainted, and then over the course of the evening decorated it with snippets from such things as candy labels which she glued on using hair gel – we hadn’t thought to bring along a tube of proper glue. The next day all the dolls painted by passengers were on display and we were invited to vote for the prettiest. I voted several times for Adrianne’s doll, but she didn’t win. The winning doll was one of the few painted by a male passenger.
This was also the day that those who wished to could paint their own Matreshka. Matreshkas are Russian nested dolls. The ship’s gift shop had Matreshkas for sale with as few as five nested dolls, and as many as 26. Obviously when there are that many dolls the smallest is tiny and the largest is quite a bit larger than Matreshkas with fewer nested dolls, but the quality of the work is also important. The larger sets were also tighter fitting, that is, each doll had thinner walls, and the smaller doll just fit with minimum room to spare into the next larger doll.
Adrianne painted a "blank" doll, that is, one with a printed outline but otherwise unpainted, and then over the course of the evening decorated it with snippets from such things as candy labels which she glued on using hair gel – we hadn’t thought to bring along a tube of proper glue. The next day all the dolls painted by passengers were on display and we were invited to vote for the prettiest. I voted several times for Adrianne’s doll, but she didn’t win. The winning doll was one of the few painted by a male passenger.
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