Talashkino. Princess Maria Klavdievna Tenisheva shared: "I have long dreamed of realizing another idea in Talashkino. The Russian style, as it was understood before, was completely forgotten. It was considered something outdated and dead, incapable of being revived and taking its place in modern art. Our ancestors used wooden benches and down jackets, and, of course, such an environment no longer satisfied contemporaries. But why not create furniture in the Russian spirit, not by copying the old, but by being inspired by it? I wanted to try my hand in this direction, inviting an artist with a rich imagination, who also worked on recreating the ancient Russian, fairy-tale past, to create the artistic atmosphere that I was lacking." From 1893 to 1914, Talashkino became an important center of Russian artistic life, comparable to Abramtsevo. With the aim of reviving peasant artistic crafts, Tenisheva and the masters she invited organized educational and artistic-industrial workshops: carving, enameling, embroidery, and pottery, which were headed by Sergey Vasilyevich Malyutin. Talashkino was home to artists such as Sergey Malyutin, Mikhail Vrubel, Nikolai Roerich, Alexander and Albert Benois, Mikhail Nesterov, Konstantin Korovin, Ilya Repin, sculptor Pavel Trubetskoy, as well as composers Vasily Andreyev and Igor Stravinsky, among others.