E-mail: savostianovaolga@rambler.ru Tel.: + 7 (499) 612-11-55 39, Andropova av., Moscow, 115487, Russian Federation Curator of Museum collections of the department for Preservation of Museum Collections, Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve
A comprehensive study of the economic and cultural life of the peasant population of the southern suburbs of Moscow region is important for understanding the historical, econo- mic, ethnographic processes in the region in the first third of the 20th century. It also makes possible to trace the continuity of traditions in peasants’ farms. The economic basis of suburban peasants’ farms was agriculture — horticulture and gardening. Former “palace” peasants, who inhabited Kolomenskoye, Dyakovo, Sadovaya Sloboda, Novinki of Nagatinsky parish, worked hard in their field vegetable gardens and fields, to plant vegetables, fruit and garden berries. They succeeded in production, conservation and sales and achieved establishment of gardens and large farm. They tried to maintain zealously old farming traditions of their ancestors, which were famous for hard work, entrepreneurship and honesty. In this paper there are considered non-agricultural homemade crafts of peasants from Kolomenskoye and neighboring villages, which appeared widely among authentic villages of the Moscow region and served as a help and complementation to horticulture production. As a result of surveys and interviewing of indigenous long dwellers information has been obtained about the subjects that were produced by local farmers and have been widely used for a long time in agriculture and at home in the everyday household. The article deals with local variants of agricultural tools, invented and maintained by the peasants and other handicraft and trading activities, which contributed to the development of horticulture and gardening.
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