Woman's costume in Russia XVIII - XX centuries
ARTinvestment.RU   05 марта 2014

In the Russian Museum opens exhibition of folk costumes from the museum's collection, the exhibition complements the painting Dmitry Levitsky, MV Nesterov, K. Makovsky, ED Polenova etc.

State Russian Museum, March 5 - May 2014
Benois Wing , St. Petersburg, Engineering Str . , 4 /
Griboyedov Canal Quay , 2

The State Russian Museum presents " all of you , my dear, good clothes " ( Female folk costume in Russia XVIII - XX centuries ).

collection of folk costumes in the State Russian Museum - one of the largest in Russia. It includes more than five thousand works . However, until now woman's costume as a phenomenon of peasant life and a bright layer of city culture and Posad not exhibited in the museum as part of a separate exhibition .

exhibition aims to present folk costume as a unique phenomenon national artistic culture that clearly reflect its different layers : the echoes of Slavic pagan ideas and costume elements of ancient Russia, preserved even in traditional clothes of the twentieth century . In folk costume play an important role as local art and craft traditions that form the unique shape of clothes each locality .

Costumes from the Russian Museum , which constitute the basis of the exhibition belonged to women living in European Russia - from Far North to Kursk and Voronezh , from Smolensk to the Perm region. The majority of these women's clothing and girlish , men and children's costume represented by single objects. Costumes wealthy city dwellers or bills of sale - sundresses, sleeveless jackets , Shuga - made from expensive fabrics - brocade , damask , silk, lace and decorated with gold braid and wide , as well as filigree buttons. Peasant costumes nineteenth - early twentieth century made ​​mostly of home-made fabrics , although in this environment have spread factory fabrics . It is among the peasants remained the most ancient stratum of Slavic costume ( swing skirts , shirts dolgorukavki - horned hats, jewelry made ​​of feathers and fluff ).

exhibition is complemented by paintings D. Levitsky , Nesterov , Makovsky , E. Polenova and other artists. These works are presented next to the true masterpieces of ancient folk costume .

Source : rusmuseum.ru