Notes on the Costume of Women of the Court and Higher Classes in Russia in the XVI and XVII Centuries
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Article surveying the dress of women of the Russian court and upper classes in the 16th and 17th centuries, drawing on foreign travelers' accounts, icons, inventories and portraits. It describes garments (sarafan, letnik, opashen, telogreia, shouba, kortel), headdresses (ubrus, kika, kaptur, koruna), footwear, accessories, cosmetics and czarina ceremonial attire, and notes the Byzantine influence and the imported silks, velvets and brocades used. Illustrated with plates and line drawings, and ending with a source list of mostly Russian-language works.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1951
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 22
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