Costume in Russia 18th - Early 20th Centuries from the Hermitage Collection. 1979

Costume in Russia 18th - Early 20th Centuries from the Hermitage Collection. 1979

The present album Costume in Russia. 18th-Early 20th Centuries is based on the materials of the magnificent collection of costumes now in the Department of the History of Russian Culture at the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad. The'beginnings of this collection date back to the first years after the October Revolution. Costumes of the former owners of nationalized palaces and mansions first entered the Department of Regional Studies at the Russian Museum and then, after being moved from one place to another, were finally transferred, in 1941, to the newly established Department of the Hermitage Museum mentioned above. The Hermitage also came into possession of the "wardrobe of Peter the Great", a remarkable collection of nearly three hundred items of men's clothes, including lavishly embroidered formal costumes - splendid specimens of the decorative and applied art of the early eighteenth century - and everyday garments made of cloth which could have been worn by common townspeople. In addition, the Hermitage contains a small but noteworthy collection of merchant, lower middle-class and folk dresses, intended for holiday and daily use, which came from the collections of N. Shabelskaya, I. Galnbeck and others, or were assembled by the scientific expeditions of the Department of the History of Russian Culture in different parts of the Soviet Union. 

hardcover with DJ

25x31 cm

279 pages

excellent condition