#kokoshnik
Flowers in the Rain Tiara
A diamond set tiara in the Russian taste designed as flowers in the rain. The leaves, petals, and raindrops are open work. Made by Boucheron in May 1910. (Munn, p. 311)
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Kokoshnikis a traditional Russian headdress worn by women and girls to accompany the sarafan, primarily worn in the northern regions of Russia in the 16th to 19th centuries.
Кокошник - (от слав. «кокош», обозначавшего курицу и петуха,старинный русский головной убор в виде гребня (опахала, полумесяца или округлого щита) вокруг головы, символ русского традиционного костюма.
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The Tsarskoye Selo museum has Grand Duchess Olga Nikolevna’s kokoshnik! This just popped up on my facebook newsfeed and I had to share. From what I can gather on google translate (The article is in Russian) it was made for the Tercentenary in 1913.
Translated it:
Collection of the State Museum “Tsarskoye Selo” gained another valuable object - kokoshnik owned by Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna. The museum acquired it at his own expense in a private collection in New York. The object was worth more than 15 thousand dollars.
The kokoshnik was commissioned to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty in 1913.
Is made in the traditional style in the form of a crown, covered with peach velvet. On the external side is embroidered with silk and silver threads, decorated with rubies, emeralds, moonstone and pearl. At the central crown cloves - embroidery with double-headed eagle, the other with floral ornament. On the inside, the kokoshnik is covered with peach colored silk fabric, and long peach satin ribbons dress the sides.
The kokoshnik survives today in its original package. On the outside of the box has a metal plaque with the inscription in Cyrillic: “Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Nikolaev Starotorzhsky convent, Galich, Kostroma Province. 1913."
Similar kokoshniki were made to the four daughters of Nicholas II. Two of them (Olga and Marie) were sold abroad - presumably in the 1930’s. The other two, belonging to the Grand Duchesses Tatiana and Anastasia, survived and are now part of the museum collection in Pavlovsk. The location of Marie’s kokoshnik is unknown.
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