A small metal flask for poison that can be added clandestinely to someone’s drink, sold in the antique section of the Vernisazh market. We asked the seller (a bald, tough-looking man) how he obtained it, and he said “I poisoned the poisoner” with a diabolical laugh, then “I’m kidding.”
This illuminating photo essay contains historical images of the budyonovka hat, which it turns out was originally designed by artist Viktor Vasnetsov for the tsar’s army and modeled on the helmet of the Russian epic heroes known as the bogatyrs.
Openwork refers to ornamental patterns of openings created using various materials.
