The King of Dolls
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Zagreb, 10. August, 1999. Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth the Queen Mother Buckingham Palace Your Majesty, My name is Ljeposlav Perinic and I am a Croat, living since World War II. in Argentina. Now, I have been visiting my homeland for two months. In newspapers I have read that Your Majesty is celebrating the birthday, so please accept my best wishes. For more than thirty years I have been collecting dolls in national costumes from all over the world, and till now I have received dolls as presents from 158 world leaders (Kings, Queens, Emperors, Empresses, Presidents, First Ladies, Prime Ministers, Governors etc.). As Your Country is not represented in my collection, I am free to ask You for a favour to send me a doll or dolls in national costumes of Great Britain, to be represented in this world's unique collection of dolls given by leaders. The dolls have been donated to Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, Croatia. Thank You in advance Your majesty
Ljeposlav Perinic |
[Coat of Arms] CLARENCE HOUSE SW1A 1BA 17th August 1999 Dear Mr. Perinic, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has asked me to thank you for your letter, and the birthday greetings you have sent to Her Majesty. Although The Queen Mother was interested to read of your large collection of dolls, Her Majesty does not feel able to send you one. I am sorry to send you this reply, which may cause disappointment. Yours sincerely, |
Mr Perinic wrote an article about a Croatian painter Kristian Krekovic, famous for his gallery in Palma de Mallorca (Perinic, Ljeposlav: Kristian Krekovic, pintor croata-peruano (1901-1985), Studia Croatica, Buenos Aires, volumen 100, ano 1986, página 27-3.). It is interesting that Krekovic portrayed several outstanding persons:
On
the left you can see a lovely gift from Grace
Kelly, princess of Monaco. Mr.
Perinic was a frequent guest on TVs in several countries: Argentina,
Uruguay, the USA, Canada, Croatia. In an official bulletin issued by
the United Nations (Information UNESCO, No. 540, September 1968) a
whole page was devoted to his dolls, that were described in an article
entitled United
Nations in the Dolls. If you
happen to stay in Croatian capital Zagreb for a while, don't miss to
see Mr. Perinic's collection that he donated in 1991. It has been
permanently exhibited in the center of Zagreb (Zrinjevac
square 14, Tourist information center,
quite near the Embassy of the USA) in 2000. Great merit for very
complex and nontrivial transport of over 300 dolls from Hamilton,
Canada, to Zagreb, have Anamarija
Snajdar from Croatian Radio
Sljeme, and Petar Milicic,
nephew of Mr. Perinic.
The Vicar of the Croatian Parish in Ottawa, Canada, who financially supported the transfer, it is interesting to say - was Black. When he visited Zagreb, on the occasion of the first exhibition of dolls held there in 1991, he also payed a visit to the most famous sanctuary of Marija Bistrica (near Zagreb) to see the "Black Madonna". On his return to Zagreb, he remarked to Mr. Perinic: The church was fantastic, it was packed with people, and what was very interesting, was that only the Madonna and me were black, while all the others were white!
The international exhibition EXPO '67 held in Montreal in Canada had also a small pavilion full of dolls. It was Mr. Perinic's pavilion where he exhibited his collection, unofficially called Croatian pavilion (it was also the sole exhibit of Argentina). He had numerous charitable exhibitions of his dolls, mainly for UNICEF children's program. As an example, one of exhibitions of his dolls was organized in order to help children in Argentina suffering from leprosy. On another exhibition of dolls, funds gathered in this way sufficed to build a house in the children's village in Garin, in the vicinity of Buenos Aires, directed by S.O.S. OPROVI Argentina. Here S.O.S. Children's Village is a well known charitable international organization, founded by Hermann Gmeiner in 1949 in Austria. It is interesting that the building was named - CROACIA.
Eleonora
Aimone, Argentinian poetesse and
writer (born in Italy) wrote the following verses dedicated to the King
of Dolls (published in Marulic, Zagreb, 6/1998):
El
Rey de las muñecas
Saber
de ti es remontar |
Kralj
lutaka
Znati
za tebe to je kao vinuti se |
Vesna Parun
Lutka za siročad
Drage lutke,
bio je rat
na svetom
hrvatskom tlu
Ni vama nije lako bilo.
Plač dječji ste
čule
u snu.
Olovni je
vojnik
oživio.
Šapnuo:
- Lutkice,
zbogom!
Na cesti ga je
neprijatelj
bezdušno
zgazio
nogom
Uzalud je
kraljevna
mala čekala
hrabrog
vojnika.
Poklonio ju je
lutaka
kralj djeci iz Lekenika.
(Zagreb, 17. rujna 1999.)
Published in Marulić in 1999, on p. 1087.
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ALBANIA | Enver HODZA - 1954/85 | Presidente |
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BRASIL | Gral Garrastazu MEDICI - 1969/74 | Presidente |
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CANADA | Lester PEARSON - 1963/68 | Primer Ministro |
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CHILE | Lucia HIRIART de PINOCHET - 1973/90 | Primera Dama |
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CHIPRE | Archbishop MAKARIOS - 1972 | Presidente |
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ECUADOR | Carlos AROSEMENA - 1961/63 | Presidente |
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EGIPTO | Gamal Abdel NASSER - 1954/70 | Presidente |
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ESCOCIA | John JOHNSTON - 1967 | Mayor of Glasgow |
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ESLOVENIA | Milan KUCAN - 1995 | Presidente |
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ESPAÑA | Gral. Francisco FRANCO - 1965 | Presidente |
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ESPAÑA | Sofia - 1996 | Reina |
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ESTADOS UNIDOS | Laurleen WALLACE | Gobernadora |
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ETIOPIA | HAILE SELASSIE - 1968 | Emperador |
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Islas FIJI | Ratu K. K. T. MARA - 1968 | Gobernador |
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FILIPINAS | Evangelina MACAPAGAL - 1964 | Primera Dama |
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FILIPINAS | Imelda MARCOS - 1966 | Primera Dama |
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FINLANDIA | Urho KALEVA KEKKONEN - 1956/82 | Presidente |
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FRANCIA | Danielle MITTERAND - 1992 | Primera Dama |
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GRECIA | George ZOITAKIS - 1970 | Regente |
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GUATEMALA | Julio Cesar MENDEZ MONTENEGRO - 1966/70 | Presidente |
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GUATEMALA | Miguel YDIGORA FUENTES - 1958/63 | Presidente |
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HOLANDA | JULIANA - 1948/80 | Reina |
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HONDURAS | Gloria de LOPEZ ARELLANO - 1969 | Presidenta |
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HUNGRIA | Cyula KALLAI - 1967 | Presidente |
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INDIA | Indira GANDHI - 1968 | Primer Ministro |
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INDIA | Sarvapeli RADHAKRISHNAN - 1965 | Presidente |
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INDONESIA | Gral. SUHARTO - 1969 | Presidente |
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ITALIA | Giovani LEONE - 1972 | Presidente |
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ITALIA | Umberto II - 1965 | Rey |
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IRAN | Farah Diba PAHLAVI - 1966 | Emperatriz |
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IRLANDA | Sean LEMASS - 1964 | Primer Ministro |
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IRLANDA | Mary ROBINSON - 1997 | Presidenta |
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ISLANDIA | Oficina - 1992 | Primer Ministro |
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ISRAEL | Golda MEIR - 1969 | Primer Ministro |
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ISRAEL | Levi ESHKOL - 1973 | Primer Ministro |
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ISRAEL | Zalaman SAHAZAR - 1968 | Presidente |
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JAMAICA | Alejandro BUSTAMANTE - 1965 | Primer Ministro |
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JAPON | Eisaku SATO - 1964/1972 | Primer Ministro |
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JORDANIA | HUSSEIN I - 1963 | Rey |
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JORDANIA | Noor AL HUSSEIN - 1993 | Reina |
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LEBANON | Suleiman FRANGIEH - 1971 | Presidente |
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LIBERIA | Anthoinete TUBMAN | Primera Dama |
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LIECHTENSTEIN | Franz Joseph II - 1965 | Principe |
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LUXENBURGO | Enrique 1968 | Principe |
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MACEDONIA | Ivan MIHAJLOV | Lider |
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MACAO | Antonio Adriano FARIA LOPEZ DOS SANTOS - 1966 | Gobernador |
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MALASIA | Ismail NASIRUDDIN SHAH - 1967 | Rey |
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MALTA | Don MINTOFF - 1971 | Primer Ministro |
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MARTINICA | SENADO - 1965 | --- |
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MARRUECOS | HASSAN II - 1970 | Rey |
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MEXICO | Eva SAMANO de LOPEZ MATEOS - 1962 | Primera Dama |
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MEXICO | Esther ZUNO DE ECHEVERRIA - 1970/76 | Primera Dama |
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MONACO | Grace KELLY - 1956/82 | Princesa |
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NEPAL | MAHARADJAHIRADSA
MAHENDRA BIKRAM JANGHADUR SHAH SHAMBAHER JANG DEVA - 1965 |
Rey |
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NICARAGUA | Gral. Roberto MARTINEZ - 1972 | Presidente |
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NICARAGUA | Ana Maria ALEMAN - 1997/2002 | Primera Dama |
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NORUEGA | Einar GERARDSHEN - 1965 | Primer Ministro |
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NORUEGA | Gro Harlem BRUNDTLAND - 1981 | Primer Ministro |
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PAKISTAN | Zulufikar ALI BHUTTO - 1971/1973 | Presidente |
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PAKISTAN | Benazir BHUTO - 1995 | Presidenta |
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PANAMA | Mireya MOSCOSO - 1999 | Presidenta |
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PARAGUAY | Gral. Alfredo STROESSNER - 1965 | Presidente |
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PERU | Gral. Juan VELASCO ALVERADO - 1968 | Presidente |
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PERU | Fernando BELAUNDE TERRI -1980/85 | Presidente |
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POLINESIA FRANCESCA | Aime GRIMALDI - 1965 | Gobernador |
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POLONIA | Henry JABLONSKI - 1972/85 | Presidente |
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POLONIA | Edward OCHAB - 1964 | Presidente |
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PORTUGAL | Antonio de OLIVEIRA SALAZAR - 1932/68 | Primer Ministro |
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PUERTO RICO | Roberto SANCHEZ VILELLA - 1966 | Gobernador |
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PUERTO RICO | Luis MUÑOZ MARIN - 1962 | Gobernador |
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PUERTO RICO | Luis A. FERRE - 1970 | Gobernador |
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PUERTO RICO | Pedro ROSSELLO - 1997 | Gobernador |
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RUSIA | Nikolai PODGORNY - 1965/77 | Presidente |
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RUSIA | Anastas MIKOYAN - 1970 | Presidente |
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SAN MARINO | REGENT CAPITANS - 1969 | Gobernadora |
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SENEGAL | Leopold SEDAR SENGHOR - 1960/80 | Presidente |
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SIKIM | GYALMO - 1965 | Reina |
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SIRIA | Nureddin AL-ATASSI - 1968 | Presidente |
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SOMALIA | Louis SWAGETI - 1967 | Gobernador |
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SUDAFRICA | Jim FOUCHE - 1969 | Presidente |
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SUIZA | Hans SCHAFFNER - 1968 | Presidente |
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TAILANDIA | Sirikit KITYAKARA | Reina |
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TAIWAN (CHINA NACION.) |
Gral. Chiang KAI-SHEK - 1950/75 | Presidente |
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TIBET | DALAI LAMA - 1996 | Lider Espiritual |
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TUNEZ | Habib BURGUIBA - 1963 | Presidente |
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TURQUIA | Suat HAYRI URGUPLU - 1965 | Presidente |
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TURQUIA | Turgut OZAL - 1993 | Presidente |
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TRINIDAD/TOBAGO | Eric WILLIAMS - 1956/81 | Primer Ministro |
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TRINIDAD/TOBAGO | Saloman HOENOY - 1962/72 | Gobernador |
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UCRANIA | Jaroslav STETZKO | Presidente |
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URUGUAY | Juan M. BORDABERRY - 1972/76 | Presidente |
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VATICANO | Pablo VI - 1964 | Papa |
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VENEZUELA | Raul LEONI - 1964/69 | Presidente |
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VENEZUELA | Menca F. de LEONI - 1965 | Primera Dama |
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VIETNAM DEL SUR | Gral. Dong van MINK - 1964 | Presidente |
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VIETNAM DEL SUR | Nguyen van THIEN - 1965/75 | Presidente |
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ex YUGOSLAVIA | Stjepan MESIC - 1991 | Presidente |
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As
we see, Nikolai Podgorny, president of Russia, donated 15 dolls: one
from each of fifteen former Soviet republics. It is interesting that
during an exhibition dolls held in the province of La Pampa in
Argentina a Russian doll had disappeared. Calls from local radio were
frequently broadcast during the whole day in order to find it, but in
vain. Finally, a father of a 5 year old child brought it the next day,
saying with excuses that he has found it in his car. Mr. Perinic is
very proud that children stay very long at his exhibitions. Their
parents just as well.
MEXICO:
JAPAN:
COLLECCIÓN PERINIC - SIGLO XXI :
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REPUBLICA CHECA | Václav KLAUS | Presidente |
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URUGUAY | Jorge Luis BATLLE IBÁNEZ | Presidente |
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ANDORRA | Marc FORNÉ MOLNÉ | Primer Ministro |
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CHILE | Ricardo LAGOS ESCOBAR | Presidente |
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BARBADOS | Clifford HUSBANDS | Gobernador General |
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LIBANO | Emile LAHUD - 2004 | Presidente |
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FILIPINAS | Gloria MACAPAGAL-ARROYO | Presidente |
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ARGENTINA (Provincia de San Luis) | Dr. Alberto RODRÍGUEZ SAA | Gobernador |
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MÉXICO | Vicente FOX QUESADA | Presidente |
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AZERBAIJAN | Ilham ALIYEV | Presidente |
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RUSSIA | Vladimir PUTIN | Presidente |
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GUYANA | Hon. Samuel HINDS | Primer Ministro |
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SUIZA | H.E. Samuel SCHMID | Presidente |
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MAURIZIO | H.E. Sarojini JUGNAUTH | Primera Dama |
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ARGENTINA (Provincia de Santiago del Estero) | Dr. Gerardo ZAMORA | Gobernador |
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ARGENTINA (Provincia de Corrientes) | Ing. Arturo Alejandro COLOMBI | Gobernador |
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AFGHANISTAN | Dr. Zeenat KARZAI | Primera Dama |
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ARGENTINA (Provincia de Entre Ríos) | Dr. Jorge Pedro BUSTI | Gobernador |
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ARGENTINA (Provincia de Buenos Aires) | Ing. Felipe SOLÁ | Gobernador |
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POLONIA | Dr. Lech KACZYNSKI | Presidente |
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SINGAPORE | Mrs. Urmila NATHAN | Primera Dama |
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JAMAICA | Mrs. Portia SIMPSON MILLER | Primer Ministro |
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ESTONIA | Mr. Toomas Hendrik ILVES | Presidente |
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CANADA (Provincia de Alberta) | The Hon Ed STELMACH | Premier |
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ESPAÑA - Islas Baleares | Hon Francesc ANTICH i OLIVER | Presidente de Gobierno |
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ESPAÑA - Extremadura | D. Guillermo FERNÁNDEZ VARA | Presidente de la Junta |
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ESPANA - Castilla - La Mancha | D. José María BARREDA FONTES | Presidente de la Junta |
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REPUBLICA DOMINICANA | Dr. Leonel FERNÁNDEZ REYNA | Presidente |
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ARGENTINA (Provincia de Salta) | Dr. Juan Manuel URTUBEY | Gobernador |
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ARGENTINA | Dra. Cristina FERNÁNDEZ de KIRCHNER | Presidente |
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TAIWAN | H.E. Chang Chun-hsiung | Primer Ministro |
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LETONIA | H.E. Valdis ZATLERS | Presidente |
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MEXICO | S.E. Felipe CALDERON | Presidente |
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ETHIOPIA | H.E. Girma WOLDE - GIORGIS | Presidente |
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JORDANIA | H. M. Rania AL ABDULLAH | Reina |
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ALEMANIA – Hessen | Herr Roland KOCH | Ministro Presidente |
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ALEMANIA – Schleswig-Holstein | Herr Peter Harry CARSTENSEN | Ministro Presidente |
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PERU | Dr. Yehude SIMON | Primer Ministro |
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ARMENIA | H.E. Serzh SARKISYAN | Presidente |
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ARGENTINA (Provincia del Chubut) | Dr. Mario DAS NEVES | Gobernador |
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BRASIL – Estado de Mato Grosso | Ing. Blairo BORGES MAGGI | Gobernador |
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BRASIL – Estado de Paraíba | Dr. José TARGINO MARANHAO | Gobernador |
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HUNGRIA | Hon. Gordon BAJNAI | Primer Ministro |
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BRASIL – Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul | Dr. André PUCCINELLI | Gobernador |
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BRASIL – Estado de Pará | Arq. Ana Julia de VASCONCELOS CAREPA | Gobernadora |
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CROACIA - Mali Lošinj | Ing. Gari CAPPELLI | Intendente |
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CROACIA | Jadranka KOSOR | Primera Ministra |
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CROACIA | Kardinal Josip BOZANIC | Arzobispo de Zagreb |
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AUSTRALIA – New South Wales | Mrs. Kristina KENEALLY | Premier |
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UCRANIA | D. Mykola AZÁROV | Premier Ministro |
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CROACIA | Dr. Ivo Josipović | Presidente |
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REPUBLICA POPULAR CHINA | Sr. HAN Mengtang | Consejero Cultural Embajada China |
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COLOMBIA | Sra. María Clemencia RODRÍGUEZ de SANTOS | Primera Dama |
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ECUADOR | Lic. Lenin MORENO GARCES | Vicepresidente |
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CABO VERDE | Dr. Jorge Carlos FONSECA | Presidente |
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VIETNAM | Lic. Le Thanh Xuan | Cónsul Embajada de Vietnam |
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NICARAGUA | Sra. Norma MORENO SILVA | Embajadora Extraordinaria y Plenipotenciaria |
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INDONESIA | Dra. Nurmala Kartini PANDJAITAN SJAHRIR | Embajadora Extraordinaria y Plenipotenciaria |
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PARAGUAY | Lic. Rodolfo SERAFINI | Agregado Cultural Embajada de Paraguay |
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RUMANIA | Embajada de Rumania en la República Argentina | Embajada de Rumania |
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NIGERIA | Sr. Chive Ior KAAVE | Embajador |
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ANGOLA | Sr. Hermínio Joaquim ESCORCIO | Embajador |
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ESLOVAQUIA | Sr. Anton JURKOVIC | Cónsul Embajada de Eslovaquia |
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FINLANDIA | Sr. Jukka SIUKOSAARI | Embajador |
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GEORGIA | Sra. Nino PHIPHIA | Consejera |
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COSTA RICA | Sr. Luis Guillermo SOLÍS | Presidente |
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CROACIA | Sra. Kolinda GRABAR KITAROVIĆ | Presidente |
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MONTENEGRO | Sr. Duško MARKOVIĆ | Primer ministro |
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REPÚBLICA DE COREA | Sr. Jinsang JANG | Agregado Cultural Embajada |
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HONDURAS | Sra. Ivonne BONILLA de DÍAZ | Embajadora |
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GUATEMALA | Sr. Roque A. ARRIAGA MARTINEZ | Cónsul Embajada |
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BOLIVIA | Lic. María Nélida ACUÑA | Primer Secretaria Emb. |
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PANAMÁ | Sr. Carlos MARRÉ - 2022 | Primer Vicecónsul Embajada |
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Chinese
dolls Fuwa, official
dolls of the 2008
Olympic Games in Bejing: their names are
Beibei,
Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying and Nini.
Many thanks to Mrs. Teresa Perinić, Croatian living in Buenos Aires, daughter of the King of Dolls, for sending me these photos of the dolls that she got as a gift in 2011 from Mr Han Mengtang, attaché of cultural affairs at the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Argentina.
In 2017, in Don Torquato, a town near Buenos
Aires (where The King of Dolls once lived), 90 years
of its existence was celebrated, on which occasion Teresa
Perinic de Bellofatto
prepared an invited exhibition of selected dolls:
Don Torquato press reported about an old exhibtion of the King of
Dolls, Ljeposlav Perinic, in 1960s.
It is worth mentioning
that during the exhibition held in 1969 in the town of Las
Heras in the province of Buenos
Aires, as many as 9,500 inhabitants out of 10,000 visited the
exhibition, i.e., 95%!
During the opening ceremony the Croatian National Anthem Lijepa Nasa
(Our Beautiful) was sang by a choir composed of 60 children.
Since 1991 Mr. Perinic has obtained new dolls from the following countries:
We are glad and proud to announce that the first doll for The King of Dolls' collection that arrived in the 21st century (and in the third millennium) came from the Czech Republic, in a very nice national costume, and with the accompanying letter signed by His Excellency Mr. Vaclav Klaus, president of the state:
Also dolls from various parts of Croatia have been donated: Zagreb, Sinj, Split, Prigorje, Posavina, Sestine, Podravina, Pozega, Krapina, Dubrovnik, Ston, Brod, Medjimurje, Lipik.
Pristupnica za članstvo u Društvu prijatelja glagoljice, koju je svojom rukom ispunio g. Ljeposlav Perinić.
U rubriku Zvanje (titula) duhovito je upisao KRALJ LUTAKA.
Bibliography of Ljeposlav Perinic, Lexicon of the Croats in Argentina.
KADA BI LUTKE GOVORILE...
lecture delivered by Mr Perinic for Croatian community in Argentina and
Canada
Croatia - an overview of its History, Culture and Science