Abstract
In 1944, as the Soviet Union conquered Estonia, severe repressions followed. A former military officer, Leonhard Lina, escaped the Soviet force and hid in his parents’ home farm. He had to spend his days in a potato store, only able to come out at night. To pass time, Lina started woodcarving toys for his infant daughter he had been forced to leave, reproducing the furniture of their former home. In total, Lina made 217 objects with extreme attention to detail. These objects have been preserved meticulously by his daughter and are now located in the Tartu Toy Museum. The aim of this research is to study Lina’s dollhouse as a form of resistance manifested in craft practices in order to symbolically preserve his personal prewar world. This paper suggests that this act of resistance helped Lina maintain the prewar world through memories embedded in the dollhouse as a material object. Through the analysis of Lina’s dollhouse, this research leads to a better understanding of the complex relationship between craft and memory.
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