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The genius of microminiatures Nikolai Aldunin was born on September 1, 1956 in the village of Yuzhnaya Lomovatka, Voroshilovgrad (now Luhansk) region. For the manufacture of his masterpieces, he used his favorite materials from childhood: metals and metal products.

Nikolai Sergeevich is an experienced locksmith and turner. He has no equal in metalworking. Once he had a brilliant idea - to shoe a flea. And ... it began! Prepared for two years, then sat down at the microscope. Having finished the work, I realized that microminiature is his life's work. Aldunin left his main job and began to engage in this delicate and laborious craft.

And here is the glorified flea! Looking closely, you will notice not only the horseshoes, but also the saddle and stirrups!

Height 0.20-0.25 mm, 999.9 gold.

AKM-47 assault rifle located across the match.

Length - 1.625 mm. Consists of 34 parts. Gold 585 and 999.9. In order to make a micro-machine, the author will need six months.

Tank T34 / 85 located on a longitudinal cut of an apple seed

Body length - 2 mm. Consists of 254 parts. Gold 999.9 standard.

Located on the needle, next to it is a grain of sugar.

Height - 1.2 mm, consists of 12 parts.

Length - 2 mm

Nikolay Aldunin is left-handed. The master made all the works with his own hands, without using any machines or mechanisms. Here are some more of his works on a grain of rice.

The height of the letters is 0.14 mm.

Several years ago, the master died, but throughout his life he carried one truth: only that person will achieve the goal who strives very much for it. The higher the goals, the stronger the aspiration should be.

Therefore, set high goals for yourself and confidently go towards them!

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There are only two ways to live life.
The first is that miracles do not exist.
The second - as if there were only miracles all around.
Albert Einstein

Course of the lesson

Introductory speech of the teacher.

Look: you have different objects on your desks: a poppy seed, a grain of rice, a needle ... Do you think it is possible to fit a caravan of camels into the eye of a needle? And write two pages of printed text on a grain of rice? And on a poppy seed to place the familiar fairy-tale characters: Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and even Eeyore's donkey? Do you think this is impossible? Today I invite you to go to a mysterious land where real wizards live who can do it!

The song "Where Are Wizards Found?" (One verse.) Slide 2.

Recently we have read the tale of NS Leskov “Levsha”. We talked a lot about the talent of the Russian people who shod fleas. Moreover, the Tula masters shod a flea, as you remember, without using a microscope! Do you believe this is possible? I don’t know how then, but today it’s definitely possible. This art is called microminiature. True, there are only a few people who are engaged in such a difficult task in the whole world.

What is microminiature?

Microminiature is a rare form of art, which is the creation of small, amazing creations under a microscope. Slide 3.

Do you want to know more about this art? Then let's first go to St. Petersburg to the Russian Lefty Microminiature Museum. Slide 4.

So, we are in St. Petersburg. We enter the museum hall. An unusual museum, isn't it? Can you see anything? So General Platov saw nothing in N.S. Leskov's tale. Remember, he told the emperor: "Nymphozoria," he says, "your Majesty, everything is in the same space, and I brought her back, and the Tula masters could not have done anything more amazing." Slide 5.

Why don't we see anything? The museum's collection is unique in that all exhibits are less than a millimeter. It is possible to examine micro-objects only with the help of magnifying devices - microscopes, mounted in exhibition forms. Slide 6.

Let's take a closer look at those who can create such amazing things. (The story about the masters of microminiature is conducted by trained groups of students. When describing the works, materials from the author's sites were used. The addresses are indicated in the list of references).

Page 1. Vladimir Aniskin

Brief biographical note. Slides 7-8.

Aniskin Vladimir Mikhailovich was born in 1973 in Novosibirsk. Graduated with honors from Novosibirsk State Technical University. He began to study the art of microminiature in 1998. Since 1999 he has been working at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the SB RAS. Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

Vladimir Aniskin said: “I hold the instrument with my fingers while working. The beating of the heart interferes with the work, therefore, especially delicate work has to be done between the beats of the heart. ” That is why the art of microminiature can be called art between heartbeats.

In the collection of Vladimir Aniskin there are such classic works of the genre as a shod flea, a caravan of camels in the eye of a needle, inscriptions on a grain of rice and a human hair. All work is done by hand using a microscope and homemade machines that fit in the palm of your hand.

Let's take a look at these works. And the author himself will help to find out more about them.

Shod flea Kuzmovna. Slide 9.

A real flea is shod with two jumping legs. Horseshoes are made of dye, studs are made of steel. Horseshoe width 50 μm (0.05 mm)

Do you know why she is Kuzmovna? Because the “sponsor” of this flea was the cat Kuzya!

Camels in the eye of a needle. Slide 10.

Seven camels are located in the eye of a needle. The height of the camels is 80-100 microns (0.08-0.1 mm). Material - platinum

Camel caravan. Slide 11.

Eight tired camels wander dejectedly in the desert against the backdrop of the setting sun.
Camels are housed inside a hollow horsehair. Hair diameter 120 microns (0.12 mm), camel height 70-80 microns (0.07-0.08 mm). The material is platinum.

The author is often asked how he placed camels in the hair. Placing 8 objects inside the drilled hair so that all objects are in the same plane is a very, very difficult task. The hair was drilled lengthwise, then polished inside and out. After polishing, the hair resembles a small glass tube. Then camels were placed inside.

A grain of rice. Slide 12.

On the cut is a fragment from “The Tale of the Tula Lefty and the Steel Flea” by NS Leskov. On a grain of rice 2027 letters fit into 22 lines.

A grain of rice was cut and polished. The text is engraved. Those. at first letters were scratched with a very sharply sharpened needle, and then they were rubbed with black paint. If you look closely, you will notice a golden horseshoe located next to the first word.

Aerodrome. Slide 14.

There are 20 airplanes and a helicopter on the cut of a poppy seed. The planes are not flat - they are not the contour of the planes cut out of foil, but the planes are three-dimensional.

Rose in the hair. Slide 15.

Rosebud width 65 microns (0.065 mm). Stems and leaves are made from pieces of green dust.

“A figure should be good,” says Vladimir Aniskin and creates a collection dedicated to children's cartoons.

Pinocchio and the Turtle Tortilla. Slide 13.

On a cut of a grape seed are Pinocchio, the frog and the tortoise Tortilla, looking out of the “water”.

The composition is located on a cut of a grape seed. Unfortunately, viewers rarely notice the frog sitting next to Pinocchio. The turtle is holding out exactly the golden key. Moreover, note that the turtle looks out of the water, i.e. there is a continuation of the turtle in the water. It even has hind legs, but the author was unable to make the water transparent enough to be seen. A water lily is visible in the background.

Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore. Slide 16.

Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore donkey are located on a cut of a poppy seed. It was quite difficult to do this work: the figures are tiny, Piglet's neck is tiny, the ladybug is tiny. The idea of ​​creating a flower and a ladybug on it was born only after all three characters were made.

The fact is that when the fairy-tale characters were made and preliminarily placed on a cut of a poppy seed, it turned out that almost half of the seed was empty and free. It was then that the thought of a flower and a bug on it was born.

Krosh. Slide 17.

The hero of the cartoon "Smeshariki" is located at the end of the hair. Hair diameter 100 μm (0.1 mm)

Gena and Cheburashka. Slide 18.

Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka are placed on a cut of a poppy seed. The height of Cheburashka is 0.6 mm, Genes is 1.4 mm.

This work was extremely difficult to accomplish. These figures are three-dimensional, and it is very, very difficult to process a three-dimensional small object. After all, a flat object can be glued and then processed, but a three-dimensional object is rather difficult to glue. Pay attention to Gena's buttons and a butterfly. Crocodile Gena even has teeth! They are made of platinum.

The most difficult thing was to give the characters' faces an expression. The complexity of creation is also manifested in the fact that the parts are made separately and assembled only at the last stage.

Lilies of the valley. Slide 19.

Two lilies of the valley, one of which is in a glass, are located on a cut of a poppy seed.

The glass was carved out of green plexiglass on a small lathe. But the glass wall is transparent due to its thickness. The seed is fixed on the middle bell of a large lily of the valley made of glass and located on a white stone.

Lily of the valley stalks are made of ordinary dust particles. It was difficult enough to firmly connect the dust particles.

The composition is dedicated to Russian women.

Page 2. Anatoly Konenko

Brief biographical note. Slides 20 - 21.

1981 - graduated from the Pedagogical Institute. M. Gorky (Faculty of Art and Graphics). He taught drawing, painting, applied art, prototyping at the construction college. He began to study microminiature.

1994 - published the first miniature book.

1996 - Published the smallest book in the world.

2002 - entered in the Guinness Book of Records for the publication of the book 0.9 x 0.9 mm.

2007 - June 15, a permanent exhibition of works by Anatoly Konenko was opened in the Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after M.A. Vrubel.

Anatoly Konenko since 1981 was the first in Siberia to study the art of microminiature. In a short period, he invented and mastered the technology of writing on rice, poppy seeds, and then on human hair. He spent many years searching for technologies and inventing microtools.

Anatoly Konenko also has classic works: the already familiar shod flea, a caravan of camels in the eye of a needle. But, of course, there are unique works in his collection. The author submits many of his works in a large-scale comparison with insects, grains or hairs, which allows him to advantageously show the uniqueness of the work performed. A violin in the paws of a grasshopper creates a well-known poetic image, horseshoes on the paws of a flea allow the imagination to revive the scene of Leskov's Lefty.

Flea. Slide 22.

A real flea is shod with gold horseshoes measuring 0.25 x 0.2 mm. (The area of ​​the horseshoe is 0.05 mm, which is 6,000,000 times smaller than the horseshoe of a horse). Three holes were drilled with a 0.03 mm drill. The development of technology and the manufacture of this miniature lasted for 7.5 years.

Camel caravan in the eye of a needle. Slide 23.

Figurines of camels and drovers made of gold. Height 0.25mm

Eiffel Tower on the proboscis of a mosquito. Slide 24.

Metal. Height 3.2 mm. (Located in the Museum of World Miniatures in Montelimar, France).

Grasshopper with a violin. Slide 25.

The violin is 12 mm long. Made of walnut shell, fiberglass strings. The violin has all the details of a real instrument. Inside there is a tag with the author's name, date of manufacture, country and city name. The grasshopper is real.

The lock and key on the leg of the ant. Slide 26.

The details of the lock and key are made of the thinnest plate of gold.

Key length - 0.24 mm, ring diameter - 0.1 mm. The lock is 0.24 mm high, the shackle is 0.012 mm thick. The height of the keyhole is 0.04 mm, the width is 0.018 mm.

Indoor ant, red. Its length is 2 mm.

A small train on a human hair. Slide 27.

A 0.24 mm high locomotive made of gold is placed on the hair.

The thickness of the gold plate from which the locomotive parts are made is 0.0032 mm.

Shoes. Slide 28.

Miniature leather shoes 17 mm long. Scale 1: 12 (world standard).

Portrait of A.S. Pushkin. Slide 29.

The portrait of A.S. Pushkin is made of separate pieces of human hair of different shades. Hair thickness 0.08 mm. The mosaic is glued to a natural mica plate. Stearin candle with wick. This candlestick is cut out of wood.

"Three heroes". Slide 30.

Microminiature from the painting by V. Vasnetsov. 10 x 7 mm, watercolor, mammoth bone.

Microbooks. Slides 31 - 34.

One of the areas where A. Konenko has shown himself most widely is the miniature book. Since 1994 A. Konenko has published about two hundred mini-books (no more than 30 - 99 copies each). 35 of them are mini- and 14 microbooks by A.S. Pushkin, for which in 1997 he was accepted as an Honorary Member of the World Pushkin Club in New York.

When publishing mini- and micro-books, A. Konenko is an artist, designer, engraver, bookbinder. All books are bound and decorated by hand. Thus, each book is a work of applied art.

The smallest book in the world. Slides 35 - 36.

In 1997, using his skills in the field of micro-art, A. Konenko managed to publish a circulation SUPER micro-book less than 1 mm in size, and, in all respects (size, number of pages, lines and letters per page, stitched binding, even color illustrations), it surpassed the Scottish (1 x 1.5 mm) published in 1986. This was officially announced at the XV World Contress in Bethlehem (USA), where A. Konenko presented his SUPER microbook A. Chekhov “Chameleon” Size 0.9 x 0, 9 mm. In 2002, she was entered in the Guinness Book of Records. This record put Russia in first place in the world in the field of microbook publishing. One copy of the book is in the library of the President of Russia.

Felt boots. Slides 37 - 39.

To understand how difficult it is to make microbalens using wet felting technologies, Anatoly and Stanislav Konenko studied these processes in theory and practice. As a result, they managed to felle felt felt boots, first 5 mm in size, then 4 mm, and at the end of their experiments 3 mm along the length of the foot. All processes were carried out under a microscope for greater accuracy. For the felting process, special tools and devices were made.

Then felt boots with a size of 1.5 mm were made.

Aquarium. Slide 40.

On February 12, 2011 Anatoly and Stanislav Konenko made the smallest aquarium with fish in the world. The bottom of the aquarium is laid with colored stones and algae. With the help of a small net, fry of aquarium fish zebrafish were launched into the mini-aquarium.

On September 22, 2011, the mini aquarium was entered into the World Records Academy's list of records as the smallest in the world.

Olympic torch. Slides 41 - 45.

But the original idea was not only to grind the layout, but also to make it work, that is, it could burn. Of course, Omsk Levsha could not do without a microscope. But in the end it worked out. The micro-torch is filled with either alcohol or kerosene.

“I would be interested to light this torch from the Olympic flame, it would be interesting,” says the master.

Page 3. Nikolay Aldunin

Brief biographical note. Slides 46 -47.

Microminiature master Nikolai Sergeevich Aldunin was born on September 1, 1956 in the village of Yuzhnaya Lamovatka, Voroshilovgrad region. (Voroshilovgrad - now the City of Lugansk). Of all natural and artificial materials, from childhood I fell in love with metals and metal products. Working as a locksmith, and then as a turner at industrial enterprises, he learned all the secrets of metalworking. Several years ago he got the idea to shoe a flea. I wanted to prove that it was not in vain that N. Leskov sang and glorified the Tula Masters all over the world. I spent two years preparing, and then sat down at the microscope. Three months later, when I finished my work, I realized that I had “found myself” in microminiature. He quit his job and decided to take seriously this very difficult and interesting craft. He believes that a person's achievement of goals in life depends on desire: the higher the goal, the greater the desire should be.

Among the works of Nikolai Aldunin there are also classic ones (a shod flea, a caravan of camels). But he also created micro-samples of weapons and military equipment.

A shod flea. Slides 48.

Shoed flea and horseshoes. Shiny dots - reflections of carnations. Material - 999.9 gold. The master calculated that 2,500 flea horseshoes can fit on one match head!

Camel caravan. Slide 49.

Camel caravan in the eye of a needle. The height of the camels is 0.20-0.28 mm. Material - 999.9 gold.

Tank T 34/85. Slides 50 - 51.

Tank T 34/85. Located on a longitudinal cut of an apple grain. Body length - 2 mm. Number of parts - 257. Material - 999.9 standard gold.

AKM assault rifle - 47. Slide 52.

AKM assault rifle - 47. Length - 1.625 mm. Consists of 34 parts. Material - gold 585 and 999.9 samples. Manufacturing time - 6 months. Located across the match

Tula samovar. Slides 53 - 54.

Tula samovar. Height - 1.2 mm. Nearby there is a grain of sugar. Material - 999.9 gold. Made from 12 parts.

A bike. Slides 55 - 56.

A bike. Length - 2 mm. Located on the sewing needle.

Ostankino Tower. Slide 57.

Ostankino Tower. Height - 6.3 mm. Material - 999.9 gold. Located on an apple seed.

Portraits of A.S. Pushkin, N.V. Gogol and Leo Tolstoy. Slides 58-59.

Located on rice grains.

Closing remarks from the teacher.

As I browsed the Internet on this topic, I saw a lot of rave reviews. But among them were not even indifferent reviews, but negative ones. They boiled down, as a rule, to the words: "Is there really nothing more for a person to do?" Yes, there are probably more important things in everyday life: you can grow bread, build airplanes, heal people ... But it is rightly said that a person is not fed up with bread alone, and it is not only doctors who heal. Art, including the amazing art of microminiature, is also capable of healing. First of all, our souls. Therefore, I would like to end our lesson with a poem by the modern poetess Natalia Mavrodi "As long as there are eccentrics."

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N.S.Leskov Tale "Lefty"

NS Leskov Born on February 4 (16), 1831 in the village of Gorokhovo, Oryol district, Oryol province, in the family of Semyon Dmitrievich Leskov, an assessor of the Oryol criminal chamber, a nobleman by length of service. The creative path of Nikolai Semyonovich was difficult and contradictory. He spent his childhood in the Oryol region on a small farm. The first childhood impressions associated with the parental home and the Oryol land are the warmest, most joyful. Adult life began for Leskov early at the age of 15 and was filled with numerous wanderings and communication with a wide variety of people. In his numerous travels, NS Leskov saw Russian life as dysfunctional and unsettled. And I found an opportunity to update and improve it. The writer believed that it is necessary to put at the forefront of a person his spiritual rebirth. Therefore, in all Leskov's works, the main thing is a person and his desire for good.

The story of the creation of NS Leskov in the first printed editions prefaced the story with the following "preface": good forces and fresh memory, he willingly recalled the old days, greatly honored Tsar Nikolai Pavlovich, lived "according to the old faith" read divine books and raised canaries. People treated him with respect "But soon the author himself" exposed "himself composed in May last year, and Lefty is a face I have invented. ”Leskov needed this whole invented story to create the illusion that the author was not involved

Plot The fabulous story of steel blocks does not seem very complicated: Emperor Alexander I received a microscopic steel flea as a gift from the British, brought it home and forgot it. The flea was found by his successor, Emperor Nicholas I, and instructed Ataman Platov to transfer it to Tula, and there the Tula masters "think" about it. Tula and shod a flea, causing surprise and admiration among the English masters. This is the plot of the tale. The little flea becomes a test for the heroes, their feeling of love for their country is tested.

QUIZ Who owns the following words and how do you understand them? "Now, if I had at least one such master in Russia, I would be very happy and proud of this, but I would make that master noble right now." “Sit,” he says, “here until Petersburg itself, like a pubel, you will answer me for everyone.” “This,” he says, “is not the best example against ours.” "Tell the sovereign that the British do not clean their guns with bricks: let them not clean them here either, otherwise, God save war, they are not good for shooting."

Illustrations to the tale of N.S. Leskov "Levsha"

Linguistic features of the tale by NS Leskov "Lefty" two-seated carriage busters merbluses mantons waterproof pistol aglitsky steel melkoscope pubel tugament shame studding public statements solid terrestrial multiplication dolbita washable tablet abolon polvedere buremmeter slander

QUIZ Why does Platov turn to Tula for help? What is Tula famous for? Why is the main character devoid of a name and even his nickname is written with a small letter? How is the lefty presented? Find the details of the description of the appearance, note the features of behavior. How are the curiosities being created? I. Glazunov. Illustration to the tale of N.S. Leskov "Lefty"

Modern Lefties The shod flea KUKRYNIKSY "The Tale of the Tula scythe Lefty and the steel flea". 1974

Modern Lefties Camels Camels are made of platinum. Their height is 80-100 microns, which is not much more than the diameter of a human hair. The needle contains seven camels. About 10 more were irretrievably lost during manufacture. The loss or breakdown of work at the last stage of completion is the fee that microminiaturists have to pay. Seven camels are located in the eye of a needle. The height of the camels is 80-100 microns (0.08-0.1 mm). The material is platinum. Eye camels belong to the classic works of microminiature art.

Modern Lefties Gena and Cheburashka Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka are placed on a cut of a poppy seed. The height of Cheburashka is 0.6 mm, Genes is 1.4 mm. This work was extremely difficult to accomplish. These figures are three-dimensional, and it is very, very difficult to process a three-dimensional small object. After all, a flat object can be glued and then processed, but a three-dimensional object is rather difficult to glue. Pay attention to Gena's buttons and a butterfly. Crocodile Gena even has teeth! They are made of platinum. The most difficult thing was to give the characters' faces an expression. The complexity of creation is also manifested in the fact that the parts are made separately and assembled only at the last stage.

Modern Lefties Pinocchio Pinocchio, the frog and the tortoise Tortilla, looking out of the "water", are placed on a cut of a grape seed. Unfortunately, viewers rarely notice the frog sitting next to Buratino. The turtle is holding out the golden key to Buratino. Moreover, note that the turtle looks out of the water, i.e. there is a continuation of the turtle in the water. She even has hind legs, but the author was unable to make the water so transparent that they could be seen. A water lily is visible in the background.

Modern Lefty Aircraft Carriers On the back of the Colorado potato beetle there are American planes, on the back of a ladybug - ours. In this work, not so much the technique is shown, but the idea is presented. On the Colorado potato beetle there are American planes, on the ladybug - ours. Why are American planes on the Colorado potato beetle - because this beetle comes from America and is very gluttonous. And why our planes are on a ladybug - because it is God's.

Modern Lefties A grain of rice On the cut is a fragment from the story of NS Leskov "The Tale of the Tula Lefty and the Steel Flea." On a grain of rice 2027 letters fit into 22 lines. A grain of rice was cut and polished. The text is engraved. Those. at first letters were scratched with a very sharply sharpened needle, and then they were rubbed with black paint. If you look closely, you will notice a golden horseshoe located next to the first word.

QUIZ Who owns the following words and how do you understand them? 1 “Now, if I had at least one such master in Russia, I would be very happy and proud of this, but I would make that master noble right now”. 2 “Sit,” he says, “here until Petersburg itself, like a pubel, you will answer me for everyone.” 3 "This," he says, "is unlike ours is the most excellent." 4 "Tell the sovereign that the English do not clean their guns with bricks: let them not clean them here either, otherwise, God save war, they are not good for shooting."

QUIZ 1 Why does Platov turn to Tula for help? What is Tula famous for? 2 Why is the main character devoid of a name and even his nickname is written with a small letter? 3 How is the left-handed person presented? Find the details of the description of the appearance, note the features of behavior. 4 How are the curiosities being created? I. Glazunov. Illustration to the tale of N.S. Leskov "Lefty"

Modern Lefties The shod flea KUKRYNIKSY "The Tale of the Tula scythe Lefty and the steel flea". 1974

Modern Lefties Camels Camels are made of platinum. Their height is microns, which is not much more than the diameter of a human hair. The needle contains seven camels. About 10 more were irretrievably lost during manufacture. Loss or breakdown of work at the last stage of completion is the fee that microminiaturists have to pay. Seven camels are located in the eye of a needle. The height of the camels is μm (0.08-0.1 mm). The material is platinum. Eye camels belong to the classic works of microminiature art.

Modern Lefties Gena and Cheburashka Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka are placed on a cut of a poppy seed. The height of Cheburashka is 0.6 mm, Genes is 1.4 mm. This work was extremely difficult to accomplish. These figures are three-dimensional, and it is very, very difficult to process a three-dimensional small object. After all, a flat object can be glued and then processed, but a three-dimensional object is rather difficult to glue. Pay attention to Gena's buttons and a butterfly. Crocodile Gena even has teeth! They are made of platinum. The most difficult thing was to give the characters' faces an expression. The complexity of creation is also manifested in the fact that the parts are made separately and assembled only at the last stage.

Modern Lefties Pinocchio Pinocchio, the frog and the tortoise Tortilla, looking out of the "water", are placed on a cut of a grape seed. Unfortunately, viewers rarely notice the frog sitting next to Buratino. The turtle is holding out the golden key to Buratino. Moreover, note that the turtle looks out of the water, i.e. there is a continuation of the turtle in the water. She even has hind legs, but the author was unable to make the water so transparent that they could be seen. A water lily is visible in the background.

Modern Lefty Aircraft Carriers On the back of the Colorado potato beetle there are American planes, on the back of a ladybug are ours. In this work, not so much the technique is shown, but the idea is presented. On the Colorado potato beetle there are American planes, ours on the ladybug. Why are American planes on the Colorado potato beetle because this beetle comes from America and is very gluttonous. And why our planes are on the ladybug because it is God's.

Modern Lefties A grain of rice On the cut is a fragment from the story of NS Leskov "The Tale of the Tula Lefty and the Steel Flea." On a grain of rice 2027 letters fit into 22 lines. A grain of rice was cut and polished. The text is engraved. Those. at first letters were scratched with a very sharply sharpened needle, and then they were rubbed with black paint. If you look closely, you will notice a golden horseshoe located next to the first word.

Not so long ago, we already wrote about the unique person Willard Wigan, who makes amazing mini-masterpieces! If you have not seen, we look.
So, it turns out that we, in Russia, live a man who is in no way inferior to him, and maybe even surpasses Willard! His name is Nikolai Sergeevich Aldunin. In the continuation, you can get acquainted with his work!

PS. He also shod a flea (12th photo)!

Camel caravan in the eye of a needle. The height of the camels is 0.20-0.28 mm. Material - gold 999.9

AKM-47 assault rifle. Length - 1.625 mm. Consists of 34 parts. Material - gold 585 and 999.9 samples. Production time is 6 months. Located across the match.

Ostankino Tower. Height - 6.3 mm. Material - gold 999.9 tests. Perched on an apple seed

Tula samovar. Height-1.2 mm., Near a grain of sugar. Material - gold 999.9 tests. Made from 12 pieces

Tank T34 / 85. Located on a longitudinal cut of an apple grain. Case length-2 mm. Number of parts-257. Material-gold 999.9 assay value

Tank T34 / 85. Body length-2 mm. Number of parts-257. Material - gold 999.9

A bike. Length-2 mm. Located on the sewing needle

May you live happily ever after. The height of the letters is 0.14 mm. Material - gold 999.9 tests. Rice grain

Portrait of A.S. Pushkin (enlarged) The height of the portrait is 1 mm.

N.V. Gogol. Portrait on a grain of rice.

A shod flea. Shiny dots-reflections of carnations. Material - gold 999.9 tests.

This is how works with rice grains are decorated

Microminiature master Nikolai Sergeevich Aldunin was born on September 1, 1956 in the village of Yuzhnaya Lamovatka, Voroshilovgrad region. Of all natural and artificial materials, from childhood I fell in love with metals and metal products. Working as a locksmith, and then as a turner at industrial enterprises, he learned all the secrets of metalworking. With some kind of inner instinct, he immediately unmistakably selected the mode of cutting metals, this made it possible to increase the number of products, increasing their quality. Nikolai considers the existing "metal technology" imperfect. Several years ago he got the idea to shoe a flea. I wanted to prove that it was not in vain that N. Leskov sang and glorified the Tula Masters all over the world. I spent two years preparing, and then sat down at the microscope. Three months later, when I finished my work, I realized that I had “found myself” in microminiature. He quit his job and decided to take seriously this very difficult and interesting craft. He believes that a person's achievement of goals in life depends on desire: the higher the goal, the greater the desire should be.