Children playing Babki (knucklebones) and Swaika (dropping a heavy nail into a ring on the ground). Popular street games in Moscow, Russia. Architecture includes log cabins, church spires and domes, neoclassical buildings. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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