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YOU'RE LOVELY, DEARIE, IN ANY ATTIRE. 18th - to 20th Century Women's Folk Costume of Russia
05 March - 12 May 2014
Benois Wing
The collection of Russian folk costumes in the Russian
Museum is the greatest one in Russia. It numbers over 5 000 exhibits. But till
nowadays the woman folk costume as the phenomenon of peasant life and
outstanding side of city culture hadn't been presented in this museum in the
frameworks of special exhibition.
The aim of this exhibition is to present the folk
costume as the unique phenomenon of Russian art, where its different layers are
reflected: the most conspicuous ones are the echo of pagan Slavonic ideas and
the elements of costume of Old Russia that were preserved even in folk costume
of the 20th century. In the latter the significant role has also the local art
and craft traditions that create and form the unrepeatable outlook of costume
of each area in Russia. The costumes from the Russian Museum collection
presented in the exposition belonged to the inhabitants of the European Russia
- from Far North to Kursk and Voronezh, from Smolensk to Perm. It is mostly the
woman costumes, as the men's and children's costumes are presented only by
several articles.
The exposition that brings together 50 complexes of
holiday costumes (over 400 exhibits) is supplemented with the paintings by
D.Levitsky, K.Venig, F.Malyavin and other artists who turned to the depiction
of the woman folk costume.
With the financial support of Sistema Finance
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