Winter Festive Costume
Arkhangelsk Gubernia. Конец XVIII - XIX века
- Heavy silk, fur, silk, fancy weaving, gold fringe, beads, colored glass, gold embroidery, weaving
- Гр.Б-1334; Тк-1728; В-2664; Т-6223
Fur Coat
Late 18th century
Heavy silk, fur
Sarafan
19th century
Silk, fancy weaving, gold fringe
Headdress ‑ Kokoshnik
Beads, colored glass, embroidery
Shawl
19th century
Silk, weaving
The festive costume of the Northern peoples. In the Russian Museum’s collection there is a silk coat, padded with cotton wool and trimmed with fur, with a wide turned down collar. Three bows were tied on the breast. It looks exactly like the coat in the late-eighteenth century portrait of a merchant’s wife with muff (State Historical Museum). Izabella Shangina calls such costume the “boyar’s coat”. From the late 18th to the mid 19th century the fur coat was part of a bride’s wedding attire and was fashionable in towns of the Russian North (Sosnina 1998, 375).