Slav Collection

Costumes of Hungarian peasantry, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1847

Medieval costume, from left to right: Byzantine Emperor Justinian with court officials and guards, Empress Theodora with court ladies, three people in Slavonic and Russian costume. Date: 6th century

Macedonian Comitajis - Macedonia
Macedonian Comitajis (Slav-Macedonian and Bulgarian gangs) the activist bodies of a local nationalist and terrorist organisation founded in 1893

Princess Paul of Yugoslavia in traditional costume
Princess Paul of Yugoslavia (1903 - 1997), formerly Princess Olga of Greece, eldest daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna of Russia, sister of Princess Marina

Iron tools. 11th-12th centuries
Iron tools. Scissors, key, knife, spoon auger, chisel, fishing spear and sickle. 11th-12th centuries. Neues Museum (New Museum). Berlin. Germany

A Serbian soldier invoking his saints before going to war
A Serbian (Servian) soldier confesses his sins, prays to his saints and leaves a candle burning before the sacred ikon before going to battle during the first week of the Great War. Date: 1914

Scenes on the Eastern front in silhouette, WW1
Silhouettes by a Russian cavalry officer depicting scenes a Cossack food convoy being attacked by Uhlans (ultimately a fruitless exercise). Date: 1915

The struggle of the Slav. Illustration shows a Russian man standing on a rowboat, using an axe labeled Nat l Assembly to battle an octopus labeled Bureaucracy, wearing a crown and royal robe

Rurik and Prisoners
Rurik receives a deputation of Slav prisoners

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