Rozhdestvenka
Rozhdestvenka
In Rozhdestvenka, inspired by an elderly and locally born resident named Klavdia Tereshyna and a woman who had moved to the village from Ukraine named Evheniia Bikotserkivets, everyone embroiders. They do some embroidery of the traditional type on ritual cloths called “rushnyky” and some on a more recent modification, namely the pillow cushion. But they also do embroidered pictures with scenes reflecting life in Ukraine, or Ukrainian life as they imagine it to be, but most pictures have modern and area-specific motifs such as local flowers and even a mosque. The women in Rozhdestvenka are also remarkably cheerful.
