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Once I took part in Russian horse hunting and want to share with you how it was. Russian horse hunting with greyhounds was once a cult, a grand amusement for aristocrats, for which costumes were made, unique breeds of dogs, and horses were bred. Today such a hunt has turned into a theatrical performance, the opportunity to try on beautiful costumes and feel like an aristocrat and show off in front of numerous cameras.

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Gods and Foolish Grandeur: The glamorous uniform - Ladies-in-waiting and Russian court dress, circa 1830s-40s Russian Dress, 1830s Fashion, Winter Palace, Hermitage Museum, Court Dresses, Lady In Waiting, Russian History, Historical Painting, Costume National

Ladies in the "Blazon Room" of the Winter Palace, by Adolphe Ladurner, 1838. (Detail of below.) Ladies in the "Blazon Room" of the Winter Palace, by Adolphe Ladurner, 1838. Unknown lady (Anna Alexeievna Okulova?), by Pimen Nikitich Orlov, circa 1835-37. Henrietta Bodisco, by Johann Konrad Dorner, 1844. Maria Petrovna Kikina, later Volkonskaia, by Pyotr Feodorovich Sokolov, 1839. Princess Elisaveta Alexeievna Paskevich, née Griboyedova, by Nikolai Gustavovich Shilder, circa 1830s-40s…

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Gods and Foolish Grandeur: Prince Alexander Konstantinovich Gorchakov, by Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky, 1904. Russian Painting, Art Of Man, Imperial Russia, Russian Artists, Russian Art, Male Portrait, Classical Art, Portrait Gallery, Male Art

I've been unable to find very much on the life of this handsome Prince Gorchakov. Born on 17 September 1875 in Vaud, Switzerland, he was the third son of Prince Konstantin Alexandrovich Gorchakov - Russian ambassador to, variously, Switzerland, Saxony, and Spain - and Princess Maria Mikhailovna Sturdza. In 1904 - the year this portrait was painted - he married Daria Mikhailovna Bibikova (1883-1962), a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Fighting in World War I, he was…

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