USSR artefacts: soviet placards of the approximately 1980s for peace

When I was a kid, on the streets of Voronezh, USSR, where I lived, it was no advertising, but a lot of soviet agitation placards. Many of them were for peace. I remember a popular slogan of that time "Peace to world". Another popular russian set expression of 1980s-90s was "fight for peace".

In this post you can see some of the Soviet Union placards relating to the theme of peace.

First USSR placard carries the slogan "Labour will be a lord of world". The placard illustrates the essence of the 1st decrees of the Bolshevik's power. These decrees were adopted after the October Revolution in 1917.

USSR artefacts: placards of the Communist Party of the 1980s

First 3 of these placards of the Soviet Union are devoted to the XXVII Congress of the Communist Party, which was in 1986. The placards were made in 1986-1990.

1st placard depicting Vladimir Lenin.

Soviet placard of the XXVII Congress of the Communist Party with V.Lenin

Antique women's pendants of Kievan Rus'

In this photo you can see an ancient russian woman's gold pendants. It had been made in XIIth century in Kievan Rus'.Such a ring-pendant was named kolt. Kolt is an old russian women's empty pendant. Pairs of kolts had been suspended to the headdress (kokoshnik) from the both sides. Woman had worn 3 pendants on each temple.

How men in Moscow state looks in the XV-XVII centuries?

You can read about Moscow state in Wikipedia, articles Grand Duchy of Moscow and the next one Tsardom of Russia.

Russian men of this period wore shirts and pants like in Kievan Rus. Over the shirt they wore a kind of clothes named zipun. You can see zipun on the left of the 1st image.
Kaftan had been worn over the zipun. You can see two models of kaftan in the image (in the center and on the right).

A look at Russian feudal woman of X-XIV centuries

Last time I have written about a costume of Russian common women in X-XIV centuries. And now it's time to see clothes of Russian feudal women of the same period.You can see the costumes of Russian noble women in X-XIV centuries in the picture.

Noble women wore shirts as well as common women. Besides it Russian feudal women wore models of clothes, which had come from Byzantine Empire: tunics, draping cloaks.

Source of information: a Russian book "The history of a costume (suit)" of  N. Kaminskaya. 

How Russian common women in X-XIV centuries looked?

Image 1.

In X-XIV centuries Russian common women wore long shirts, which was decorated by an embroidery or an application of a strip of a decorative fabric. The shirts were made from white linen or coloured silk. The shirts had been wearing with the waistband.

Over the shirt Russian women wore a skirt. The skirts were like in the image above. This ancient Russian skirt was named poneva. It was often made from chequered or diamond-shaped cotton fabric (image 1).

How Russian fighting men in X-XIV centuries looked?

In this picture you can see Russian fighting men (soldiers) of X-XIV centuries. They wore a short chain armour over a clothes. The chain armour had slits on each side.

Source of information: a Russian book "The history of a costume (suit)" of  N. Kaminskaya.