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Other Countries / Document of Petronella Merkurieff Declaration of Intent
« on: Sunday 23 March 14 03:27 GMT (UK)  »
Seamike, I have referred to this document.

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Here is the full front of the thick photo of Petranella.  Well, I'm having trouble loading the photos, am working on it, and will get them posted ASAP.

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Thank you China and Aj100, every comment helps to solve where this dress was worn and accepted as usual.  My grandmother was born 1893 or 1896. I am attaching 3 photos of the thick photo card, the full front with edges, full back and an edge shot. It is scanned in color, but as you see there is basically no color to it, or it has faded.  She gave birth to my father in 1917, in Kharkov, Russia, the day of the Russian revolution, so I believe that this photo was the last time she would wear what she considered her fine clothing.  She and my grandfather and my father had to leave Russia and did leave Russian soil after much privation and hardship in 1922. So, sometime preceding 1917 I am thinking that this photo had to be taken. She does look rather plump, perhaps ready to, or having given birth, or maybe that is just her normal size. But that style, that lace, belongs to a certain time, place and culture. It just can't be the only one on the planet. If only you could see the other photo I had mentioned. In my uneducated opinion, the overjacket does seem more eastern European, but the lightness of the fabric seems consistent with Edwardian times.  One other wild guess is that I always was told that this was our grandmother, but the hairstyle seems older than the dress style, and I recently had a thought perhaps it was a photo of my grandmother's mother, who would have been born 20 years earlier, and whose name was Salome Deines. And that my grandmother kept this photo because it was her mother, not herself.  It would be nice if you could rule out why this couldn't be my great grandmother so I only have one theory to follow up.

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This is my Grandmother Petranella Kira Gerulis (maiden name) Mekurieff (married name).  Would it be possible to date this photo, perhaps based upon her clothing?  Or hairstyle? I also need help to identify this style of dress.  I am sure it is typical of an ethnic area within or close to the Russian empire. But I am looking for the very localized area that this dress was from. I have read that lace, and lacemaking, and making dresses thereof, can be traced to very specific areas, as each culture has their own way of making lace.  I have searched fashions from the  Russian empire, but they are either folk costumes, or Imperial court dresses, or fashions that copy the European fashions of the day, and I am only guessing at the year as around 1915. I have only seen one other dress like this, in a book entitled: The Russian Empire, a portrait in photographs, by Chloe Obolensky.  I cannot reprint that photo here due to copyright restrictions, but if anyone has that book, it is photo number 56, and the caption to that photo is Teatime at the Semichoss house.  There is a lady, approximately 50 or 60 years of age wearing this very style, very thin, unlike my grandmother, but it is the same style of dress.  There are younger people in the photo which I think are contemporary with the time that photo was taken, and the other people seem to be in their 20's and thirties, so this style is an older style from the other dresses in that photo.  I would say that photo is taken approximately around 1915 to 1920 perhaps, but I am not an expert in photo dating. Semichoss does not appear to be an ethnically Russian name.  Anyway, I attach the photo of my grandmother without worry of copyright because I own the photo and copyright. The other photo I have applied for and wait for permission to reproduce it.

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Other Countries / family name Semichoss in Moscow
« on: Friday 14 March 14 17:59 GMT (UK)  »
Has anyone any knowledge of the family name of Semichoss, believed to be of the merchant class in Moscow around 1915 or so, or maybe even earlier?  Any guesses as to whether the name might have been russified, perhaps into Semichoff at some point, or could it possibly be an ethnic name from some other geographical area under the influence of Russia?

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Other Countries / Searching for Kharkov merchants around 1896 to 1917
« on: Monday 10 March 14 19:33 GMT (UK)  »
My grandfather, Andre Ivan Merkurieff, was born in Kharkov around 1888, my grandmother, Petronella Gerulis Merkurieff was born in Kharkov 1896. My father was born in Kharkov in 1917. They were a merchant family, until the revolution, then grandfather went into cavalry for the Tsar. My grandmother's family, Gerulis on father's side, and Deines on mother's side, were also in either business or politics (mayoral) in Kharkov district.  Can anyone help with any records or business journals that might confirm the presence of my ancestors in Kharkov 1888 to 1917?

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