Museum visitors will Dyatkovo crystal glass blowing skills

Production of crystal - a unique historical technology, virtually unchanged for five thousand years of glassmaking in the world. Glass (crystal - its variety) - amazing stuff invented by the genius of the human mind.

Just like in prehistoric times, it is based on natural raw materials, which mixture is cooked in a special furnace at a temperature of about 1500 degrees. Then the hot molten glass is produced manually or by means of glass-forming machines. Used a variety of methods of processing crystal and glass. A rare and unforgettable opportunity to see firsthand how the magic act - the miracle of birth sonorous, clear crystal and precious soon provide "Crystal Museum", located in the city of Bryansk region Dyatkovo.

The Museum has worked for many years on the basis of Dyatkovo Crystal Factory, founded more than 200 years ago, a noble dynasty Maltsov - the founders of many glass production in Russia, including a factory in the town of Gus-Crystal Vladimir region. In the niche of days, as opposed to the Goose-Crystal et al. Dyatkovo plant is not closed, and was retained by the city administration Dyatkovo and the Bryansk region. It is expected that the guided tour through the production area Dyatkovo crystal plant will reopen in October 2014 after a period of a change of ownership of the plant and re-equipment of the production line.

History and modernity Dyatkovo plant is a unique museum of crystal, which has become one of the most spectacular sights in the Bryansk region. It started with the creation of a "model room" at the factory "... so as to be - a school for wizards, a fount of ideas for artists and to facilitate considerations superiors" about 150 years ago. The room gradually gathered a huge collection of crystal and colored glass, reflecting the different processing methods and processing methods, change of times and fashion trends. Here you can find a truly masterly works of old masters made, unique works of art and specimens with crystal glass produktsihram ikonostasomi 19th century "for everyone", to sell at that time tens of thousands at fairs.

Unique spectacle was a Dyatkovo church, all the decoration which, even iconostasis was made of colored glass and clear crystal. Unfortunately, antique furnishings have been lost, and now in the interior of the church sparkling crystal products of modern masters. Details of the former Crystal iconostasis are stored in the museum.

In 1976, the museum was built for a large special building opposite the factory buildings. In Soviet times, the plant flourished. Crystal was in vogue. In the museum you can find items that we have met as a child in the apartments of our mothers and grandmothers of the Soviet era. Here you can also find samples of crockery and vases made for the CPSU Central Committee, Stalin and Brezhnev, and the prize prize-giving athletes.

On the recent history of the factory specifically for the "Rest in Russia," the director told the "Museum of crystal" Svetlana Babayeva: "Unfortunately, all the domestic glass industry is suffering losses last decade. This is due to economic reasons. But Dyatkovo plant compared with other companies, still good fortune. " In 1999, the city administration took Dyatkovo museum on your budget and the collection was added to the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation. So the factory museum was urban, regional and then. Otherwise he would have died.

After the bankruptcy of the company in the early 2000s for his fate took the city administration Dyatkovo, finding old production part of the national heritage. Dyatkovo plant maintained even when bankrupt and ceased to exist famous factory in Gus Crystal. City Administration at pains to keep the plant afloat, but he has suffered a loss. Guide to search for investors, trying to maintain production. The investor was found in the person of a Moscow bank. For the bill to him were sold new factory buildings, based on the fact that the bank would be to invest in production. But this did not happen. Bank money is invested, and some time later moved production facilities to the main sites in the old buildings into new housing. Debts grew, including the rent. The plant began to descend lower and lower. City decided to look for another investor. The investor was found in the person of a local businessman, owner of a chain of furniture manufactures Sergei Artemiev. He now invests his money and begins to raise production. In 2013, he bought an old ruined shop. One of the buildings have been renovated and remodeled: built oven, ordered new equipment in Italy. It is planned that in October production will be launched. Work there will be 200 people. But they will not produce those products that have done here in the 70s, when the crystal was in every Soviet house. In the 70s it was the criterion for human well-being: crystal, carpet, gold. Now, the plant will produce products that are in demand in the European and Russian markets, but in a different price range. It will be elite crystal in limited quantities, as well as work under the order and copyright products made of colored glass. Goal - to return the value of an expensive gift crystal glass. It is not a real crystal can be cheap. It's too hard to do. According to Svetlana Babayeva, the new owner of "burning eyes", he invites to the plant by Italian artists and designers to exchange experiences. The goal - the revival of crystal and the transition to a different niche: a valuable and precious gift.

"By October, promised to launch a line, then we will drive back excursions, - says Svetlana Babayeva - Now this is the only crystal production, preserved in Russia. After Gus-Crystal in the Vladimir region remained small cooperatives that continue to operate. But this is only one factory in Dyatkovo. In Europe, too, such a situation: the Czech factories suffer losses. China puts pressure on the market for its cheap glass products, releasing and pressing products with diamond cut".

During the tour, visitors will see firsthand the exciting process of glass blowing and cutting. Technique blowing Millennium passed down from generation to generation, it has reached our days thanks dynasties blowers. There are a dynasty in Dyatkovo. "Where there is a hot oven, there are young glassblowers, and the dynasty - the director of the museum. - It is possible to teach a skill only the most stove. Where to close the plant, there is continuity of generations is lost".