Tsar-Valenok: Join in painting the world’s largest winter footwear!

Published 14 December, 2008, 00:16

Anyone who goes along to Moscow’s ‘Russian Winter’ crafts festival can have a hand in decorating a new world record creation – a giant two-metre-high felt boot – known in Russian as a ‘valenok’ – which weighs in at more than 300 kilos. It is large enough for a grown man to climb inside, and is equipped with a ladder to help him do so.

The ‘Tsar-Valenok’ was made in Yaroslavl, an ancient Russian city some 250 km north-east of Moscow. A giant lucky horseshoe has also accompanied the boot from Yaroslavl to the festival in Moscow. Craftsmen spent more than a month making the boot.

When the event closes, the boot is expected to be given a permanent home in Moscow’s Russian Records museum.

The crafts festival opened on Revolution Square in the centre of Moscow on December 1 and will last until January 19.

It includes free historic tours around the city centre and demonstrations of various handicrafts, as well as children’s shows, circus acts, bellringing and master classes by craftsmen. There will also be stalls where one can buy human-sized , amongst other typically Russian souvenirs, including the famous , from many different regions of Russia.

Other attractions include a slide made according to a project by own woodworker, as well as a merry-go-round resembling the one that liked to ride on!

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