Figure 1.--This appears to be a very young Russian boy from a nobel family photographed in Berlin, probably in the 1870s. He wears a white dress with tartan trim.
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Figure 1.--This appears to be a very young Russian boy from a nobel family photographed in Berlin, probably in the 1870s. He wears a white dress with tartan trim. |
As in Western Europe, younger boys wore dresses, although social and economic factors significantly affected the clothes actually worn by Russian boys. We have little information on the dress styles worn by Russian boys. We have only a small archive of images, but the photigraphic images we do have seem very similar to the styles worn in Europe at the time, at least the styles worn by boys from middle and upper-class families in the major cities. There were social-class factirs here. The situation was very different for working-class and serf boys. Our limited archive, however, does not yet permit to address Russian trends in detail.
The portrait here is one of a number of photosfrom a collection of photographs taken mainly in Russia that featured the family of Count Paul Beckendorff who was a Marshall of the Imperial Court of Tsar Nicholas II and his brother, Alexander, was Russian Minister in London from 1900 to 1917. The photos are believed to have come from his son, Constantine, who was a naval officer in both the Imperial Navy and later, the Red Navy, after which, he retired to Sosnofka, South East of Moscow, where many of the photos are believed to have been taken.
This one is a trimmed cabinet card featuring what appears to be a boy in a dress. It is 5 1/2 by 4 inches (140x102mm). Interestingly it was taken by a Berlin photographic studio, Loescher and Petsch of Berlin.
Thus we are not sure if this is a Russia boy in Germany or perhaps a German relation.
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