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caption_attribution_description: English: Girl with strawberries in Governorate Vologda. TITLE: Dievushka s zemlianikoi. [Rossiiskaia imperiia] TITLE TRANSLATION: Girl with strawberries. [Russian Empire]Русский: Девушка с земляникой. 1909 г. (Вологодская губерния, деревня Топорня) Автор: Прокудин-Горский, Сергей Михайлович. Одна из работ, выполненная в рамках проекта "Российская Империя" (1909-1915). Italiano: Ragazza con fragole nell'Oblast' di Vologda. Giovane contadina russa di fronte ad una tradizionale casa in legno, in una zona rurale lungo il fiume Sheksna vicino alla cittadina di Kirillov. Una delle prime fotografie a colori dalla Russia, creata da Sergej Michajlovič Prokudin-Gorskij come parte del suo lavoro per documentare l'Impero Russo (Progetto «Gli splendori della Russia» 1909-1915).
context_page_description: A sarafan, is a long, trapezoidal Russian jumper dress worn by girls and women and forming part of Russian traditional folk costume.
  Traditional Russian costume consists of straight, flowing lines. Beginning at the turn of the 18th century, the sarafan became the most popular article of peasant women's clothing in the Northern and Central regions of Russia. Sarafans were regularly worn until well into the 20th century, having first been mentioned in chronicles dating back to the year 1376. The origin of the term Sarafan lies in Persia. Old Russia cultivated especially during the era of Grand Principality of Moscow strong ties to Western Asia and countries of the Middle East and served also as an intermediary in the trade between Europe and Asian countries like Persia, as well as Turkey. Sarafan most likely originated from a kaftan-like costume which were worn in Russia by women and men. Sarafans became mostly popular in the Central and Northern Russian regions. Through trade with Central Europe the quality and colour of clothes became better.
  Sarafans had originally a tighter form but became wider through influence of the Russian Orthodox Church.
context_section_description: A sarafan (Russian: сарафа́н, IPA: [sərɐˈfan], from Persian: سراپا‎ sarāpā, literally "[from] head to feet"), is a long, trapezoidal Russian jumper dress (pinafore dress) worn by girls and women and forming part of Russian traditional folk costume.
  Traditional Russian costume consists of straight, flowing lines. Beginning at the turn of the 18th century, the sarafan became the most popular article of peasant women's clothing in the Northern and Central regions of Russia. Sarafans were regularly worn until well into the 20th century, having first been mentioned in chronicles dating back to the year 1376. The origin of the term Sarafan lies in Persia. Old Russia cultivated especially during the era of Grand Principality of Moscow strong ties to Western Asia and countries of the Middle East and served also as an intermediary in the trade between Europe and Asian countries like Persia, as well as Turkey. Sarafan most likely originated from a kaftan-like costume which were worn in Russia by women and men. Sarafans became mostly popular in the Central and Northern Russian regions. Through trade with Central Europe the quality and colour of clothes became better.
  Sarafans had originally a tighter form but became wider through influence of the Russian Orthodox Church.
  After the reforms of Peter the Great, which also introduced modern European cultural standards to Russia, only peasants wore the Sarafan, while the upper classes switched to Central European fashion.
  In many areas of the former Grand Principality of Moscow and today's Southern Russia also the poneva costume was worn by woman. Today the garment is most often seen at performances of Russian folk song, dance and is worn on Russian folk and religious holidays. Designers as well from Russia as from Ukraine are re-imagining the sarafan style with its old national heritage for the 21st century as summertime light dress that can actually be with its modern shape a part of today's woman's wardrobe.
caption: A peasant girl wearing a sarafan (1909), by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
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