Waistcoat
Clothes for Men
Inventory number
2022.9.29.5ac.CM.WT.1910.RUDescription
Men's waistcoat in black wool, with notched lapels, embellished with a double row of five metal silk-covered buttons, on either side of the opening, all accompanied by four pockets including two for pocket handkerchief. The back, in black silk satin, can be adjusted using a metal martingale. The vest is lined with white silk with blue stripes. This lining is accompanied by a wide and large pocket closing with a bone button, on the left side and two removable linen lapel linings, each fixed by three linen-covered metal buttons.The waistcoat comes from the wardrobe of a Russian noble gentleman Vladimir TRIPOLSKY (1883 - 1942), and was worn by him on his wedding day October 10, 1910.
Vladimir Rodionovich TRIPOLSKY was born on January 1, 1883 into a noble family of Rodion Pavlovich and Maria Feliksovna TRIPOLSKY in the county town of Zenkov, Poltava province. Having graduated, like all the men of his large family, from the Petrovsky Poltava Cadet Corps, he did not follow the military career, but entered the Tomsk Technological Institute.
In Tomsk, on October 10, 1910, Vladimir TRIPOLSKY married the daughter of a private attorney of the District Court, Anna Vassilievna MOLOTKOVSKAYA, whose family came from the city of Mirgorod, Poltava province. From 1907 to 1910, while studying at the institute, Vladimir also worked in the Ministry of Railways as a foreman in the research and construction of railways. In 1912 he graduated from the Tomsk Technological Institute with a degree in civil engineering.
From 1913 to 1920, he worked at the Murgab Sovereign Estate of the Specific Department (Bayram Ali) as an assistant manager, civil engineer and director of factories. And also in Ashgabat and Samarkand on research, construction and operation of irrigation systems and cotton ginning plants. In the early 1920s, the family moved to Baku, and from 1921 to 1935 Vladimir Rodionovich worked on the construction and operation of factories, railways and irrigation networks in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
He was repressed in 1935, and died in a Stalinist concentration camp in Kazakhstan on September 18, 1942. He was rehabilitated posthumously on December 23, 1959.
Materials
WoolSilk
Steel
Origin
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