Figure 1.--Here we see young Leo wearing a kind of tunic outfit looking like what a boy in Westrn Europe might have worn in the 1830s. Leo would have been about 8 years old. There was a broad collar. It is worn with cravat or small kerchief. It is fastened at the waist with a narrow cord. There is a band around the edge of the cuffs and bottom. The trousers are knee length and they too have a band around the bottom. Stockings are worn with shoes that are difficult to make out.

We do not have a lot of information on how the young Leo was dressed. Photographt was not yet developed when he was a young child and did not reach Russia for several more years. Available images suggest that Leo was dressed much like a boy in Western Europe rather than as a Russian boy. The Russian aristocracy was obsessed with Frande and often looked on Russian customs, including clothing as little short of barbaric. A series of Russian illustrations provide some insight into the type of clothes a young aristocratic male child would have worn. The pictures show the boy at different ages and thus his attire a boy would wear at these ages can be seen. In the illustration here Leo would have been about 8 years old in the 1830s (figure 1). There was a broad collar. It is worn with cravat or small kerchief. It is fastened at the waist with a narrow cord. There is a band around the edge of the cuffs and bottom. The trousers are knee length and they too have a band around the bottom. Stockings are worn with shoes that are difficult to make out. We are not sure, however, about the accuracy of these drawings.