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Russian women of the 1900-1910s (PHOTOS) 

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These were some of the festive and everyday outfits of peasant, gymnast and noble women of the tsarist Russia in the early 20th century.  
Women in national Russian costumes 
Diveyevo Convent photo studio/Museum of Sarov

Pedestrians on Nevsky Prospekt, St. Petersburg
Alfred Eberling/V.A. Nikitin collection
A woman at home
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF

A young pianist
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF

A woman in front of a country house
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF

A portrait of a young woman and a girl
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF

A lady’s portrait
Unknown author/The Russian Union of Art Photographers

Anna Vyrubova, a lady-in-waiting of Empress Alexandra, the wife of Nicholas II
Karl Bulla photo studio/Central State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents of St. Petersburg

Duchess Zinaida Yusupova
Unknown author/Arkhangelskoye state museum-estate

A woman at a water pump
Alexei Mazurin/MAMM/MDF

Russian types - a peasant woman
Alexei Mazurin/MAMM/MDF

A portrait of a lady in a hat 
Unknown author/The Russian Union of Art Photographers

A girl’s portrait 
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF

A lady with her child
Boris Vostryakov/Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

A woman in a dacha garden 
Alexander Grinberg/MAMM/MDF

The Russo-Japanese War. A sister of mercy and an officer by some ruins
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF

A portrait of a gymnasium student
Bazahnova of ‘Danilov I,’ photo studio/MAMM/MDF 

A portrait of an unknown woman
Mikhail Rubanchik/Mikhail Zaikov archive

An actress
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF

A woman on a stroll
Alexander Grinberg/MAMM/MDF

A woman with a tennis racket
Unknown author/MAMM/MDF

Two women posing in hats
Fedor Orlov/MAMM/MDF
Two women in military uniforms and a dog 
Shalov Nemtsovich/Vladimir Karlov archive 

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