Hermitage Receives Aleksandra A. Radkevich's Dress

On 9 September, 2002, in the office of the Hermitage Director Mikhail B. Piotrovsky, the sisters Mrs. Nadine Gregoire-Bestougeff and Mrs. Helene Bestougeff on behalf of their mother Aleksandra Iosifovna Panaeva-Bestougeff, born in 1913, made the State Hermitage Museum a present of the wedding dress and rotunda once owned by their grandmother Aleksandra Alekseyevna Radkevich (1885-1962) whose wedding ceremony took place in 1910 in the Church of the Winter Palace.

Presentation ceremony

Mrs. Helene Bestougeff and Mrs. Nadine Gregoire-Bestougeff

The dress