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| | Bulletin # 35 |
 | | Korolkova, a research fellow of the Ethnography Museum, provided a detailed report to Society members, labor instructors from Veps Volost [district including several villages] and Petrozavodsk schools, and leaders of folk groups on the history of Veps ethnic clothes, the techniques of their manufacture, peculiarities typical for various historic periods, and ways of wearing them. |
 | | Crimson quartzite, worked by their hands, is still present in the walls of the Engineer Castle and mosaic floors of the Kazan Cathedral in the northern capital of Russia [St. Petersburg] and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier memorials in Moscow and Petrozavodsk. |
 | | A popular saying asserted: “A good man marries in the neighborhood, and a bad one, across the mountains.” It was normal to marry early in Veps villages, at the age of 16-17 or even earlier. |
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