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Favorite decades: 1910's, 1800's, 1870's
Favorite artists: Anthony van Dyck, Giovanni Boldini, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Lawrence
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Mourning dress, 1902-04 US, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Source: metmuseum.org)
Portrait of Yulia Kustodievoy by Boris Mihaylovich Kustodiev, 1903 Russia
The artist’s wife and their dog
More from the Ball of 1903
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*I couldn’t fit her name on the line, but Czar Alexei’s wife was Maria Miloslavskaya.
Costumes worn to the Romanov Anniversary Ball in 1903. The theme of the lavish masked ball was the reign of Alexei of Russia, second ruler of the Romanov dynasty (1645-1676). Some guests went so far as to actually wear original costumes from the period that were being stored at the Kremlin.
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