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Shuba, the ultimate Russian winter coat The garment that shows how cold (and warm) Russia is at the same time.
“I feel good in my old man s fur coat, it’s as if you’re wearing your own house. They ll ask if it s cold outside today, and you don t know what to say, maybe it is, but how do I know?” – Osip Mandelstam wrote of a Russian shuba. Indeed, a good shuba helps to stay warm even in the harshest cold.
Expensive warmth Embassy of the Grand Duke of Moscow to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II in Regensburg, 1576 etching. All Russian envoys in the picture a seen wearing posh shubas