C19th dress

[Alina Israeli]

>Can anyone suggest a good resource (book / web etc) for finding images of
>late-C19th provincial-Russian dress (mainly merchant class, but also
>cossacks and low-ranking civil servants)? Also, what did people wear to
>swim?!

To swim? Probably nothing in their own private pool or in a river. I
suggest Chekhov's short story "Roman s kontrabasom", it explains
graphically what a princess (knjazhna) wore for a swim.

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 Alina Israeli
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