Filet-Guipure Lace was a prevalent stitchcraft in Samara Region before 1917. It has nunnery genesis. At one time Dutch lacemakers invited by Peter the First have put a beginning of needlework classes at a nunnery for the girls from surrounding villages. At the Soviet time due to phenomenally unrestrained activity of Nadezghda Tazova (1906-1997) Filet-Guipure Lace art was kept and developed in Samara Oblast. It has got characteristics of the Samara School. Nadezghda Tazova has received first embroidery skills from her mother, which was trained in due time at a nunnery in Buzuluk District of Samara Region. For more than thirty years of work in stitchcraft groups at various establishments in the city of Kuibyshev (it is Samara now) Nadezghda Tazova has transferred her skill to many girls. She is the author of the several books on Filet-Guipure Lace. The National Master title was given Nadezghda Tazova (certificate #233) by the decision of National Art Commission of the Russian Artist Union on June 26, 1981. N.Tazova is a repeated participant of exhibitions in Kuibyshev and Moscow. Since 1980 she cooperated with Russian Art Fund; her works were purchased by Exhibition Fund of Russian Artist Union. Among the students of N.Tazova: Raisa Khozlyukh, Nina Belyavskhaya, Lydia Kharpheyeva, Olga Yakunina. ( The data was prepared with use of the information about N.Tazova made in 1982 by E.Aphonina, art expert of Russian Art Fund on work with the national masters, and kindly given by R.Khozlyukh) [February 5, 2002]