Russian serf, Mararmoros County, Kingdom of Hungary, 18th century. Cattle farmer in large black sheepskin bonnet, shirt, leather belt with small axe, pantaloons, half boots. Russniac peasant of the Palatinate of Marmoros, Paysan Russiaque du Comte de Marmarosch. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by William Alexander from J-B. Eyries’ L'Autriche: Costumes, Moeurs et Usages des Autrichiens, Austria: Costumes, Manners and Mores of the Austrians, Librairie de Gide Fils, Paris, 1823. Jean-Baptiste Eyries (1767-1846) was a French geographer, author and translator.

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