Kolomenskoye photoset part 2. Alexey Mikhailovich’s Castle.
Сostume inspired by the oprichnina times.
photo by snowmice, makeup by Эля Саярова (Elya Sayarova)
Fucking beautiful shit. Why can’t I just have all of them…
more dresses to taunt Gemma with
(via 13th-deity)
First Consul jacket owned by Napoleon Bonaparte, 1800
From the Chateau de Malmaison Costume Collection app:
“This sumptuously embroidered jacket was given by the city of Lyon to the First Consul in 1800. He wore it on April 18, 1802 at the Te Deum ceremony held at the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris after the signing of the Concordat. Napoleon took it with him to St. Helena. He gave it to the young Hortense Bertrand (daughter of an Empire general) who, when she was older, passed it on to Prince Victor Napoleon, grandson of King Jerome, Napoleon’s youngest brother.”
Cape. 1912, French.
House of Worth.
Source: Met Museum.
(Source: travellinganachronism, via spottedjabot)
Dress uniform jacket belonging to Major General Prince Eugene, ca. 1812
From the Chateau de Malmaison Costume Collection app:
“Prince Eugene was the oldest son of Josephine and Alexandre de Beauharnais. He was appointed viceroy of Italy by Napoleon. This major general’s full dress jacket, embroidered at the neck, on the facings, lapels and flaps with oak leaves and acorns closes with seven gold buttons decorated with a trophy of arms. At each shoulder there is a bar and button designed to carry epaulettes which are now lost. At the lower back, there is a garland finishing in a grenade framed by two wings and surmounted by a flame and lightning. A yellow paper label has been sewn into the lining with a brown ink inscription stating ‘jacket worn by Prince Eugene in Russia’; this would have been in 1812 when he was commanding the Italian, French and Bavarian troops of the 4th Army Corps.”
