HISTORICAL REFERENCE
In the picture in front of you - a real Russian tower, located in the Czech wilderness in the middle of a dense forest. And the tower is not easy - it was related to the person of his Imperial Majesty Alexander II and Count Lichtenstein - from the same ruling the Liechtenstein dynasty. How tower was in Moravia backwater?
The story began in 1872 - Russia was preparing for the World Exhibition in Vienna (1873). According to the organizers, in a meadow in the Prater created "international village", where were peasant houses from all over the world - even the Americans dragged wigwam. Russian also decided to set up a farm, but Alexander II decided to cheat and instead bring in Vienna a real farmhouse, ordered the famous architect Hartmann - one of the founders of the pseudo-Russian style - to create a project of peasant farmsteads. On his show he noticed Count Liechtenstein, and immediately decided to buy it - to use it in their hunting forests as forest residence. Parties quickly hit on his hands - in Russian there is no need to take him back.
Count perevёz him to his estate in Lanžhot where the disassembled house lain 11 years - in 1884 they gathered again. "Great Russian House" was located in the tract Ugliska 3 km from the "small Russian House", which was erected in Dubravka - a place at the intersection of three borders, Austrian, Slovak and Czech - today, this area is called - Russian home.
It should be noted that Liechtenstein has used the local woods for hunting and brought economic activity to a minimum, biologists argue that the local landscape has hardly changed since come here almost fifteen hundred years ago, the first Slavs.
Alas! In April 1945, there were fights and the "Great Russian house" burned on the spot where he stood, remained only a wooden Senik. But "small Russian House" preserved and is still used for its intended purpose - as a hunting lodge. Owned Forests Židlochovice, it can settle for 35 euros per day and hunt for wild boars, deer, roe deer.
DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTENTS OF WOODEN MODELS
1900 parts. Photoetching for skobyanki carved elements and chimney - complete.