Русский ремесленник

Craft - small manual production, based on the use of hand tools, personal skill workers, making high quality, often highly artistic products.
Craft emerged with the beginning of productive human activity, it took a long historical path of development in different forms: a) home craft - in a subsistence economy, b) trade in order - in terms of decomposition of natural economy, c) a craft market. With the emergence of craft on order, and especially in the market due the emergence and development of cities as centers of commerce and craft. Homemade crafts often referred to as domestic industry (ie production of non-agricultural products), the craft on order and the market - the handicraft industry. In the Russian statistical literature often all artisans XIX-XX centuries. called artisanal.

In 1862, in St. Petersburg began to be issued first and the world's only dedicated monthly magazine about crafts. He was called "Russian craftsmen".

Handicraft production in the XIX century paid much attention. Even in 1857 when Alexander II signed a document containing a significant phrase: "Small crafts , popular among the people, have the same significance as plants and factories, and have a tremendous impact on the economic life of People ".

Short glossary is aimed at clarifying the meaning of key terms and concepts associated with the Russian craft and arts and crafts.