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Why do European monarchs wear Russian ‘kokoshniks’? (PHOTOS) – Russia Beyond
These sparkling diamond and emerald tiaras are modeled and named after the old Russian headdress.
At official functions, European royalty can often be seen wearing tiaras that resemble an old Russian headdress called the kokoshnik. In Russia, empresses and grand duchesses wore this kind of tiara beginning from Catherine the Great’s rule during the second half of the 18th century. Outside of Russia, the fashion for the tiare russe developed thanks to Queen Alexandra, the wife of King Edward VII and sister of the Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna, wife of Alexander III. Some of those tiaras still…
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