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Russian court dress was a special regulated style of clothing that aristocrats and courtiers at the Russian imperial court in the 19th-20th centuries had to follow. Clothing regulations for courtiers and those invited to the court are typical for most European monarchies, from the 17th century to the present.
Portrait of Empress Maria Feodorovna, by Vladimir Makovski in 1912.The Empress is wearing a regular Court dress. All the ancient occupations of the women at the Court of Russia, traditionally held by boyarynias (wives of boyars), nurses, housekeepers, servants, nannies etc., were abolished and replaced by a new hierarchy inspired by Versailles Court's etiquette and German models, although many ...
English: Silver moiré skirt and emerald green silk velvet bodice and 12-foot train. Trimmed with silk fringe, velvet ruffles, and embroidered with clear glass crystals and silver sequins, foil and strip.
Court dress designed for the Imperial Russian Court, about 1888. Green velvet and silver moiré. Early 1900s court presentation dress from Moyse's Hall Museum – House of Worth was at the height of its success at the turn of the century.
She was known for her gold-sewn imperial gowns. She made the formal court dresses of the daughters of Tsar Nicholas II. [5] She made the 1894 wedding dress of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. [6] In 1910 she retired and left the management to her niece Adriadna Konstantinovna Willim (1890-1976).
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna wearing the traditional dress of ladies of the Russian Imperial court. Maria was educated at the Russian court under the strict regime of her governess, Countess Alexandra Tolstaya. [18] [19] Maria was the first Russian grand duchess to be raised by English nannies and to speak fluent English.
The Imperial sceptre was crafted by the court jewellers L. Pfisterer and I. Leontovich for Empress Catherine II in Saint Petersburg in 1771 and altered in 1774. The sceptre holds the famous "Orlov" diamond and 196 another diamonds .
Furthermore, the lower classes (an overwhelming majority of the Russian population) lived virtually isolated from the upper classes and the imperial court. Thus, most of the nobility's “western” tendencies were largely aesthetic and confined to a tiny proportion of the populace.