The first collection of Sviayzhsk's ceramic tiles brought together at the local school museum
The author has studied one of the first collections of ceramic tiles made at the Sviyazhsk special needs boarding school. The items in the collection are all fragmentary remains picked up from the ground, but still are of great use as an illustration of how scholars or people of Sviyazhsk had seen their local ceramic tiles prior to the start of massive archaeological works in the island town. The collection includes both unique samples of early “red tiles” and the ones more typical for Moscow and Kazan tilemaking of the same period, and also a variety of later types common for many Russian towns