Art Nouveau design and extravagant Russian invitation

This nice paper can be an invitation at the beginning of the century, in 1902, or the memory of an event concerning this wife and men ? Unfortunately I am not able to read it. In any case, the design is incredible with all those magnificent form of the "art nouveau" period.

The quality of the paper is also perfect which is great for such a souvenir of this time, after the revolution.
Somewhere, this is fantastic to imagine the common trend of the "art nouveau" style in whole Europe including Russia with some extravagances given by the tradition and the culture there.

We can observe there a real complexity of flowers, mix of colors, creativity in the way to present two old photographies.
The tree or something which is resembling, seems connected to a dream like a vivid vegetable.

If you are able to give us more information about, especially our Russian readers, do not hesitate. ;-)

Old russian lace with the heraldic symbols of the Tzar

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Can you recognize the two eagles from the Tzar and the heraldic symbols with the crows, realized on this lace from the old time ? It was used in an Orthodoxe church in Russia, around the furnace bridge.

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Complex horses embroideries from Russian Empire time

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This is a nice embroiderie symbolizing two horses on a pillow. The work is very fine and coming also from the Russian period before the revolution. I am interested to know if this kind of design is related to a specific region in Russia.

The realization of this embroiderie on cotton can be from the late XVIIIe century to the XIXe or earlier, but I have no enough documentation to check it.

Couvre-chef pour l'épouse lors des mariages à Nijni Novgorod, XVIIIe century

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It was a magnificent hat, for a woman in Russia closed to the region of Nijni Novgorod. A mix of a complex design in gold and silver. We can perceived on it the image of the symbolized eagles. This object was collected before 1900 in the country.

The date of it seems to be closed to the end of the XVIIIe century.

We can imagine it was coming from the Brocard collection which is now partially in the Tretiakov gallery in Moscow.

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Happy new year with a nice Russian Art deco picture

A nice invitation from the old Russia looks like a print version of the Art Deco period. But regarding the year 1903, we need probably to connect it more to the Art Nouveau time.
I like the design of it, the marvelous architecture of the house behind, as the police used with a nice mix of grey, silver, green and brown.
Even if I am not re-opening the blog now, I would like to seize the opportunity to wish you an happy new year, inviting you to have a look on my another blog about some collections and especially in the last posts about some "aquarelle" from the conquest of Algeria in 1830.