Women’s Headdresses. The History museum, Moscow

The collection of women’s headdresses in the History Museum, Moscow, one of the richest in the country, includes over three thousand items dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. It took about a hundred years in the making, and comprises of Russian antiquities, such as Natalia Shabelskaya and Piotr Shchukin; a number of museum purchases; and acquisitions made by the Museum’s ethnographical expeditions of the 1920s. This set of art postcards presents the local and status varieties of headdresses worn in the Russian North, in Central Russia, and in the southern regions of the country: the kokoshnik, the kichka, the soroka, the koruna, all of them lavishly decorated with embroidery. Pearls, beading, and semi-precious and coloured stoned.