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# Shades of lilac as a mourning colour in eighteenth-century Russia and at the French court
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/paru-dnei-nazad-ia-rasskazyval-o-traurnom-garniture-gertsogini-omalskoi/
- Published: 2017-11-11T03:58:18.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:57:51.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Aristocracy, Monarchies, Observations, Mores

A few days ago I wrote about the mourning suite of the Duchess of Aumale.

[https://theparnassian.com/stulchik-iz-garnitura-gertsogini-omal-ili-frantsuzskoi-printsessy-marii-karoliny-burbon-sitsiliiskoi/](https://theparnassian.com/stulchik-iz-garnitura-gertsogini-omal-ili-frantsuzskoi-printsessy-marii-karoliny-burbon-sitsiliiskoi/?ref=theparnassian.com)  
[https://theparnassian.com/tak-etot-stulchik-vygliadit-s-iznachalnoi-obivkoi/](https://theparnassian.com/tak-etot-stulchik-vygliadit-s-iznachalnoi-obivkoi/?ref=theparnassian.com)  
[https://theparnassian.com/delo-v-tom-chto-po-drevnei-traditsii-posle-smerti-korolia-ili-chlena-korolevskoi-semi-pridvornye-i-dvorets-oblachalsia-v-traurnyi-fioletovyi-temno-sirenevyi-tsvet/](https://theparnassian.com/delo-v-tom-chto-po-drevnei-traditsii-posle-smerti-korolia-ili-chlena-korolevskoi-semi-pridvornye-i-dvorets-oblachalsia-v-traurnyi-fioletovyi-temno-sirenevyi-tsvet/?ref=theparnassian.com)

and then I came across a detailed description of mourning etiquette in eighteenth-century Russia, which shows that our own society, too, regarded shades of lilac as a colour of mourning