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Dress uniform by Iosif Vissarionovič Džugašvili, better known as Stalin, composed of a silk jacket white with gold buttons bearing the symbol of the hammer and sickle and a visor hat. Measures 83 cm. for approximately 47 cm, the headgear has a diameter of 20 cm. approx.
Provenance: Italian diplomat in the USSR - Brescia private collection - exhibited in the exhibition " Silk between symbols and history", Brescia, Palazzo Martinengo, 8-31 October 1994 - the hat published in the Beretta Agenda 2005, compared to week 31 (August 2005).
Specialist Notes
BEAUTIFUL HISTORICAL RELIEF in perfect condition . The High Uniform of the Soviet revolutionary, politician and military man who headed the government of the Soviet Union after Lenin's death.
"The remarkable simplicity clothing is the result of a democratization process wanted by the great dictator, which will lead the military uniform to take on the most characteristic features of the Russian national costume. While in the past, in fact, the canons of fashion were dictated by the hegemonic classes and subsequently reworked from the subordinate ones, after the October Revolution the typical peasant's clothing - the people's jacket - is elevated to the uniform of the Russian Army and its leader. In this way, the primitive semantic value is replaced by another completely different expression, an expression of the revolutionary ideals of the time. In the uniform of the Marshal of the USSR the only decorative elements are the five buttons with the "pattern" of the hammer and sickle, which became an ornament symbol, and the gold thread chevrons ( razgovòri ) which give the dress a heroic aspect. On the chest stands the decoration with the red five-pointed star. (...) The cap with visor, similar to that adopted by the people's commissars, curiously recalls the chaffeur's cap of the Tsarist patrician houses. It too is made of silk and is fastened by a red cloth ribbon surmounted by a gold cord, fixed by two buttons identical to those of the jacket, but smaller. In the center, on a red background, stands the five-pointed star with the symbol of the Communist Party in gold. "(From the exhibition catalog:" Silk between symbols and history ". Brescia, Palazzo Martinengo, 8-31 October 1994.) .
"The remarkable simplicity clothing is the result of a democratization process wanted by the great dictator, which will lead the military uniform to take on the most characteristic features of the Russian national costume. While in the past, in fact, the canons of fashion were dictated by the hegemonic classes and subsequently reworked from the subordinate ones, after the October Revolution the typical peasant's clothing - the people's jacket - is elevated to the uniform of the Russian Army and its leader. In this way, the primitive semantic value is replaced by another completely different expression, an expression of the revolutionary ideals of the time. In the uniform of the Marshal of the USSR the only decorative elements are the five buttons with the "pattern" of the hammer and sickle, which became an ornament symbol, and the gold thread chevrons ( razgovòri ) which give the dress a heroic aspect. On the chest stands the decoration with the red five-pointed star. (...) The cap with visor, similar to that adopted by the people's commissars, curiously recalls the chaffeur's cap of the Tsarist patrician houses. It too is made of silk and is fastened by a red cloth ribbon surmounted by a gold cord, fixed by two buttons identical to those of the jacket, but smaller. In the center, on a red background, stands the five-pointed star with the symbol of the Communist Party in gold. "(From the exhibition catalog:" Silk between symbols and history ". Brescia, Palazzo Martinengo, 8-31 October 1994.) .
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