Russian Clothing and Accessories

Internal Pages

• Russian Dress Photos
• Male Clothing
• Female Clothing
• Children's Clothing (planned)
• Accessories and Footwear
• Mordak's Garb Packet (Images were not archived on the Wayback Machine. Replacements are being sought. See also the new Mordak's Garb Packet on Sofya la Rus' website.)
• Nicolaa's article on the Dress of the Rus'
• Predslava's article on Medieval Russian Fashion
• Kat'ryna's Russian Embroidery Page - courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine - some images lost.
• Russian Garb: Basic Overview the Quick and Dirty Way - courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

External Pages

• Clothing - articles in the Slavic Interest Group Newsletter, Slovo.
• Articles on costuming, Jewelry and much more: Some good stuff courtesy of Predslava
• Stefan's Florilegium cl-Russia-msg
• "Russian Historical Costuming an article by Yelizaveta Medvedeva
• Miscellaneous garb notes form the SIG List. A collection of soundbites from our own SIG-List

• Embroidery - articles from the Slavic Interest Group newsletter, Slovo.
• Ancient Russian Ecclesiastical Embroideries - by Eugenia Tolmachoff.
• Golden Embroidery of Pre-Mongol Rus: 10th-13th Centuries - in Russian but with excellent dated illustrations.
• Pearlwork in Russia in the XVI-XVII Centuries - http://reijo.multiply.com/journal/item/141/Pearlwork_in_Russia_in_XVI-XVII_centuries

• Holiday Dress of Maiden of Radimichi Tribe of early 11th Century- in Russian with excellent illustrations.
• Gallery of Fabric Belts, "Braids" and so forth- in Russian with excellent illustrations.

• Byzantine World: A good deal of Russian culture and costume shows Byzantine influence. Patterns, pictures, and links
• Christobel & Peter’s New Varangian Guard Homepage - http://members.ozemail.com.au/~chrisandpeter/

• 1903 Fancy Dress Ball at the Winter Palace: Exhibit at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg Russia. Some of the costumes are not in period, but a few are.
• The Costume Ball at the Winter Palace- more photos.
• Romanov Anniversary Ball at the Winter Palace, 1903.
• More images from the 1903 Ball - http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/3118718/post118216435/

The History of Costume Pages

These are taken from a Victorian costume book (which means that it is of questionable accuracy), most of these pictures are out-of-period but they are fun to look at. We have only linked to the costumes considered useful to SIG research but there are many other pictures. Be aware that the images are LARGE

• Plate 45C -- Russian Nobleman (16th Century)
• Plate 66 -- Russia (17th-18th Centuries)
• >> Boiar >> Boiarina and Boiars >> Princely Dress, Women's Summer Dress >> Women's Winter Dress
  • Plate 124 -- Siberia (Late-19th Century) >> Kirghizia, Siberian Tatars and Kalmucks, Nomads, Bashkirs, Steppe Dwellers, and Tatars
  • Plate 125 -- Russian Folk Dress (Late-19th Century) >> Crimean Tatars >> Mordvin, Chereniss, and Estonians >> Iaroslavl, Tver, and Kaluga >> Riazan, Finland