Dear muscovites
moving wooden dolls set
Every city is a gallery of characters.
Which ones could be included into Moscow's collection? The Dear muscovites doll set represents typical citizens of contemporary Moscow.
All the dolls are made of plywood and are initially blank, so that they can be colored or left they way they are. The fastener type allows them to move and be reassembled. Some parts of different dolls are interchangeable, allowing experimenting with shapes.
Each doll comes in individual package and is meant to be manually assembled:
A booklet that goes with each package introduces each character. Short facts about each one reveal bits of their personalities and are meant to remind of a theatre libretto. The whole scenario, though, is up to the owner of the dolls.
The owners of the dolls are encouraged to color them and share their results on Facebook or Instagram using a hastag: #dearmuscovites
Lika
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Lika is a 17 year old mobile phone shop assistant. She lives in the south-east of Moscow with her aged mother, a pious Christian that suffers from mild cognitive impairment.
Lika’s passport name is Pelageya, but she tries to hide it and feels ashamed if somebody hears Lika’s mother calling her by her real name. Sometimes she claims to have lost her
passport and to be living without it.
passport and to be living without it.
Lika is a passionate fan of Nabokov and Bulgakov.
Kostyan
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Kostyan is 25. He has just returned from corrective labour colony, where he stayed for a year after breaking into a sport goods shop, where he crushed two showcases and stole a bicycle tyre.
It’s been a month since Kostyan works in a car service. He currently lives in the garage where he works.
His dream is to move to Sochi with his girlfriend.
Karim
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Karim is a 37 year old businessman from Tashkent, who moved to Moscow 10 years ago and now runs an extremely successful chain of Uzbek cuisine restaurants.
Although claimed to be one of the most influential restaurateurs, Karim is not a public figure and very little is known about him apart from scarce official data, which became a rich soil for speculation and rumors of all sorts.
Karim owns several original works by Nobuyoshi Araki.
Zheka
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Zheka is 18. His parents are rarely in Moscow because of frequent business trips, which temporarily turns Zheka into an exclusive owner of a 2-floor apartment in the center of Moscow.
Zheka is passionate about Russian hip-hop and has participated in Pharaoh’s music video as a supporting actor.
He suffers from bipolar disorder, which is worsened by his occasional drug usage.
Lidia Petrovna
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Lidia Petrovna is 55, she is a school head teacher. She lives in Khimki with her husband Anatoly, who has been working in a framing workshop for 10 years already.
Lidia Petrovna keeps a family budget planner, a thick paper workbook, where she records all of her and her husband’s expenses.
Her only true joy is her french bulldog Franzi, a winner of many dog shows.
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All the characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidential.
