Alesya Kalmykova, Traditional Dress

• Main Authors: Terbish, Baasanjav, Churyumova, Elvira
• Other Authors: Churyumov, Anton
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: Russian
• Published: University of Cambridge 2018
• Subjects: Dress; costumes; symbolism; belts; hats; boots; earrings; wedding; Buttons; The Waist; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.23854; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/276552

Alesya is engaged in the reconstruction of Kalmyk costumes based on the works by Irodion Zhitetskiy and Uryubdzhur Erdniev. She says that there is practically no research done on early costumes pertaining to the period when the Kalmyks arrived in the Volga region. Traditionally, children did not hav...