Russian Russian Handicraft Department at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris served as a vivid demonstration of both the traditional art of the Russian North and the emerging, including on the basis of its synthesis with Art Nouveau, artistic direction, later called the Neo-Russian style. In the text of his memoirs "Notes of an architect artist" I.E. Bondarenko included information about his own role in creating a pavilion for the Handicraft Department, about his relationship with his co-author, the famous Russian artist K.A. Korovin