NEW dress belonging to OTMA has been discovered

A BRAND NEW, never-before-seen dress belonging to one of the Grand Duchesses has been discovered by the Hermitage Museum and exhibited for the first time.

It has not yet been identified who the pink and red dress belongs to. The sisters used to have their first name and patronymics stitched into the waist of their dresses in order to differentiate between them. Similarly, the dress maker is not yet known, though it is highly likely that it was produced in the workshops of either Olga Bubenkova or August Brizak, two of the Romanov family’s favourite designers.

The dress, alongside many other pieces of clothing and personal items, can be seen at the Hermitage Museum’s new exhibit, ‘OTMA & Alexei’.

Sources and photos: Дети последнего российского императора. Выбор куратора, Hermitage Museum, RomanovsOneLastDance 

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Perfume Coty of the Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna

In 1904, the French perfumer François Coty (1874-1934), created a perfume brand under his own name. The design of the bottle for his first fragrance was developed by the French company “Baccarat”. At first, few people were interested in the perfumes of an unknown perfumer, but once Francois Coty broke a bottle with them in a Parisian store, his luck changed. The scent filled the room and immediately attracted buyers. A few weeks later, Coty’s perfume was already on sale in department stores, boutiques and hairdressers throughout Paris.

François Coty became one of the most popular perfumers of the time. Before him, perfume was a luxury item available only to wealthy people. Coty created a line of fragrances in which the cost depended on the size and type of bottle. He said, “Give a woman the best product you can create, wrap it in simple but elegant packaging, set a reasonable price, and you have a business of a scale the world has never seen.”

The collection of the Museum of the Family of Emperor Nicholas II contains a glass bottle of perfume “Corsican Jasmine”, which was used by Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna. This fragrance was created by François Coty in 1906 and named after his homeland – the island of Corsica. The scent of “Corsican Jasmine” was also loved by the famous Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941).

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Doppelgänger

Xavier Valcárcel

Translated from the Spanish by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

I did not come to solitude

she packed my suitcase and said go. She put an egg in my suitcase she put leavening in my suitcase she put salt in my suitcase flour, sugar, and warm water.

I came to my mother’s house to sleep for days. I closed all the doors. I took off my clothes, my watches. I left the suitcase on the floor unopened.

Now hungry, with my eyes I rummage through the things I brought. They have taken everything.

All that’s left is the egg, there, intact beside the bed and, when facing the mirror, I feel strangely committed to its care.

And in times like this

I'd really wish

To bring my belongings

Into the basement

And forget about them

Again

Preserved perfumes belonging to the last Imperial Family

I have labelled who each bottle belonged to. A case of Maria's favourite perfume 'Lilas Pourpre' was also donated to the museum, but not pictured here.

SOURCE: Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve on behalf of the Association of Slavic Culture "Svetoch" (Canada)

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tiny-k: Looks like I personalized and shopped while buzzed again. I haven’t put my pledge name on anything since college!

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