pelisse

The soldier wears a fur pelisse and holds a cymbal, which meant he was very likely to have belonged to a cavalry regiment, Ms Lavelle said.

A photograph from that time shows him proudly wearing his uniform, with its heavily tasselled pelisse, mostly unchanged since the Napoleonic Wars, and later favored by Jimi Hendrix.

Exhibits will include the author's silk pelisse coat, her purse and sewing box.

The lure of the bygone is represented at the start, where Thomas Cole’s 1838 painting “The Past” is paired with an 1820s golden silk pelisse, or coatdress.

Ask any Russian, and they will of course tell you your pelisse goes over the left shoulder.