Russian costume

Fire beads. Amber Luxury by Old Believers from Transbaikalia. I'm not a writer on Livemaster. I am a reader. I read a lot enthusiastically, and I am really grateful to writers. But you can't just take. It is time to give. However, this time came a year ago. I visited Old-Believers` ...

"Gone Beauty in Coloured Photos by Olga Shirnina" I like to look at old photos. They witnessed our past, so different, but always mysterious, covered with legends. In search of new photo stories about the past on the Internet, I found photos dedicated to the Romanovs costume ball in 1903. ...

In their childhood, many Russian girls reading or listening to fairy tales or watching cartoons dreamed of becoming a princess or Vasilisa the Beautiful. Perhaps, when I became an adult, the paintings of Russian young ladies by Konstantin Makovsky began to bring me back to my childhood, to those ...

Photos made by Maria Lipina from Perm are like illustrations to Russian folk tales. In these models you can see the lines of Vasilisa the Beautiful, the Frog princess, Elena the Wise, Princess Nesmeyana and Snow White in Russian version... And among them we see impressing Moscow princesses, ladies ...

Hello, dear friends! Embroidery is a kind of needlework I’m really into. Because I’m a designer of folk stage costumes, I often have to change decorating techniques. In this tutorial, I’d like to share the experience of cutwork embroidery on a linen apron. I shall say that this is a laborious and ...