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Olina Ventsel is one of the best known and highly recognized doll-makers in Russia. For many years she was engaged as a costume designer in Moscow theatres and film studios. One can see her works in famous Russian films “One more Night with Scheherazade”, “Siege”, “Incident in Airport” and others.

In 1986 Olina Ventsel started to make porcelain dolls in historical costumes. They were real masterpieces and were highly appreciated not only in Russia but abroad as well. Ventsel is the only one master in the world who concentrates on making not just dolls but wide-scaled dolls projects. These projects are dedicated to different historical events and life and creative work of famous people.

One can find dolls by Olina Ventsel in museums and private collections of Moscow, Amsterdam, New-York, Venice, Paris and Copenhagen, to say the few.

A unique exhibition “Ball of Pushkin Epoch” was hold in the State Museum of Pushkin A.S. and also in the Vahtangov Gallery in the Central House of Artist. It was dedicated to the bicentenary of A.S. Pushkin and was a great success. After exposition in Moscow the Russian Cultural Center in Denmark invited Olina Ventsel and her dolls to Copenhagen. The collection was exhibiting in the Town Hall of Copenhagen for two weeks. At about seven thousand people visited it. This event found a great response in mass media and on the television of Denmark.

Today eleven portrait dolls by Olina Ventsel are presented in the Danish Museum of Great Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, a sister of the Russian tsar Nikolay the Second. These dolls were made in memory of the family of Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov, the last Russian tsar.

Benevolence of Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark Margrethe the Second and Hoff marshal of Her Majesty Lord Chamberlain, the President of the fund of H.C. Andersen, was the reason to start a new project. It was devoted to the creative work of the great Danish story-teller H.C. Andersen. Some of the dolls from this collection are exhibited in the famous Danish museums “Legoland” and “Olga's Lyst”.

Altogether there are at about 150 dolls by Olina Ventsel that are presented in galleries, museums and private collections of Russia, Europe and America.