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. 

A look at Russian peasant of X-XIV centuries

In this image you can see a Russian peasant of X-XIV centuries. He had worn a shirt (it had named in Russian rubaha) and pants (had named porti). The main colour of the suit's fabric was always bright. Ancient Russians had worn gauntlets and a bag at the belt. This bag had named kalita.

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

A look at Russian prince and his closes, XI century

In the middle of IX century Russia had accepted Christianity from Byzantine Empire. At the XI century Kievan Rus (Kievan Russia), also known as Ancient Russian state, was a strong country. We have already looked at the prince of Kievan Rus of this period. And here you can see clothes, that had been wearing only by prince and his closes feudal lords. These feudal lords had wearing cloaks corzno (looks like cloaks of Byzantine) and tunics made from expensive Byzantine fabric.

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

Russian ornamental patterns of X-XIV centuries

Here you can see Russian ornamental patterns of X-XIV centuries. These patterns had been pictured on fabric. The colour of a background was brown Holland. The colour of a pattern was most often cyan, green or cinnabar. The patterns often were decorated by pearls. The most widespread Russian ornamental patterns had contained geometrical elements. Some of these patterns you can see above.

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