The headdress @the crown - Russian beauties

Kokoshnik @- the lost crown of Russian beauties.

When it is in Russian women"s costume was a headdress unknown. The name" kokoshnik" comes from the word" cocochi" – rooster, chicken. He was paid a fabulous sum, and passed from generation to generation. He was banned and revived again. In our review of the history of the Russian kokoshnik.


the woman"s headdress @-" кокошник@". The Vladimir province. The second half of the XVIII century

Headdress called ancient Russian headwear in the form of a rounded shield around the head or vane. First use of this word recorded in the XVII century. There are several versions of how the headdress came into Russian folk costume.


the woman"s headdress @-" кокошник@". Kostroma province, the first quarter of XIX century.

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the Girl in a Bridal headdress.

One of the most popular versions of the appearance of the headdress – Byzantine. In antiquity the noble Greek women decorated their hair with tiaras, which were fastened with ribbons. However, these crowns can wear only unmarried girls. Married women had to throw on the head of a special blanket. High probability that during the period of active trade between Rus and Byzantium the daughters of princes could meet c in Byzantine fashion. And went to a tradition of high women"s headwear.


the woman"s headdress @-" кокошник@". The European part of Russia. The end of the XVIII @- beginning of the XIX century

Imitate the upper class began and other segments of the population, and after a while the costume of the Russian beauty is not complete without a headdress, embroidered with beads, gold or pearls. Innovative features were girlish, not covering the hair, and female. The custom is to cover the hair of married women, since ancient times known to all the Slavic peoples of Eastern and Western Europe and is associated with pre-Christian religious beliefs. In the Russian village it was customary to assume that a woman with an uncovered head can bring unhappiness: to cause crop failure, livestock deaths, diseases, etc.


Maiden headdress" коруна@". Arkhangelsk province., S. Kholmogory. The end of the XVIII century


Russian costume with kokoshnik.

However, there is a Mongolian version of the origin of the headdress, the adherents of which argue that Mongolian women were similar headdress. Anyway, but the kokoshnik became an integral part of Russian costume, married rich women.


Vologda province of the XVIII century.


Russian beauty in the headdress.

the Main feature of the headdress is a comb. In various Russian provinces, his form was different. For example, in Kostroma, Pskov, Saratov, Nizhny Novgorod and Vladimir headdress was shaped like an arrowhead. In Simbirsk province used to wear kokoshniks-полумесяцы. In other areas, there was" Golden"," heels"," tilts"," coqui" and" magpies".


the woman"s headdress @-" кокошник@". Moscow province. The second half of the XVIII century.


beauty in a kokoshnik, embroidered with stones and pearls.

Headpiece snugly to the head and covered his hair in braids. In fact, the headdress was a sort of a fan of thick foundations, which were sewn to the cap. Behind him down the strip. The headdress was considered to be festive and even a wedding headdress. Weekdays were restricted to wearing a povoinik.


Arkhangelsk province of the XVIII century

Special attention was paid to the ornament that decorated the headdress. In the middle, usually housed stylized" лягушка@" – a symbol of fertility. on the sides of the @- S-образные figures of swans @- symbols of marital fidelity. The back portion was especially rich. It is traditionally embroidered stylized Bush, which symbolized the tree of life, every branch of which @- new generation. And this" Bush" was and poultry, and fruits with seeds and many other symbolic signs. Therefore, the kokoshnik was still a talisman, who wore luxurious Russian beauties in traditional costumes.


Kaluga lips. The end of the EIGHTEENTH century.


Embroidered headdress.

kokoshniki were Made in large villages, in cities or in monasteries the masters-кокошницы. First, they embroidered gold and silver expensive fabric, and then pulled her to birchbark Foundation. Dovolko often kokoshniki embroidered with pearls. The price of some products reached 300 rubles in banknotes, so the headdress is carefully kept in the family and passed by inheritance, they were often used by several generations.


Pearl kokoshnik.

Peter I forbade the maidens to wear this hat, but as a wedding attribute kokoshnik in Russian fashion has remained. And when Catherine, when revived interest in the Russian antiquities and Russian history, along with traditional sundresses have returned and some sort of headdress.


Russian beauties.

Nicholas I in 1834, issued a decree that introduced a new court dress with a kokoshnik. It consisted of open-narrow bodice with long sleeves" and-ля boyars" and a long skirt with a train. The order of wearing these dresses is preserved in Russia until February 1917.

Source: http://www.kulturologia.EN/blogs/151015/26722/

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