Rastov, Yaroslavl and Rubinsk

The Kremlin in Rastov is magical, still in the midst of being restored it contains six museums. The major art or craft of Rastov is enameling, mostly of traditional Russian Orthodox images. Enameling uses metal oxides of different kinds to obtain color varieties. The images are painted with these oxides and then fired and the result is a beautiful shiny, bright, glasslike appearence. It is a technique that is over one thousand years old. The Enamels in the museum were mostly 200 years old to the present. My guesthouse host are enamel artists. They have modern musuem worth works in there house. Gotta go