The Scent of Empires. Karl Schlogel

      

CONTENTS

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Dedication

      5  Extracurricular activity Notes

      6  The scent of the empire, or how Le Bouquet de Catherine from 1913 led to Chanel No. 5 and the Soviet perfume Red Moscow after the Russian Revolution Notes

      7  Scentscapes: Proust’s madeleine and historiography Notes

      8  When ‘the weakest link breaks in the imperialist chain’ (Lenin): the world of scents and the olfactory revolution Notes

      9  Departure from the belle époque and clothes for the New Woman: Chanel’s and Lamanova’s double revolution Notes

      10  Chanel’s Russian connection Notes

      11  French connection in Moscow? The ‘fatherland of workers’ and traces of Mikhail Bulgakov Notes

      12  Auguste Michel’s incomplete project: a Palace of Soviets perfume Notes

      13  The seductive scent of power: Coco Chanel and Polina Zhemchuzhina Molotova – two careers in the twentieth century Notes

      14  From another world: the smoke of the crematoria and the smell of Kolyma Notes

      15  After the war: man cannot live on bread alone – the New Look and Stilyagi Notes

      16  Excursus: the grande dame of German film Olga Chekhova, cosmetics and the dream of eternal youth Notes

      17  How One World smells Notes

      18  Not only the Black Square: Malevich’s perfume bottle Notes

      19  Bibliography

      20  Index

      21  End User License Agreement

      Guide

      1  Cover

      2  Table of Contents

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright

      5  Dedication

      6  Begin Reading

      7  Bibliography

      8  Index

      9  End User License Agreement

       List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 2Figure 1 Le Bouquet Favori de l’Impératrice (1913)Figure 2 Chanel No. 5 by Ernest Beaux, 1926 © akg-images / François GuénetFigure 3 Brocard bottle © Philip Goutell, ‘Perfume Projects’, www.perfumeprojects.com

      2 Chapter 4Figure 4 Konstantin Verigin, 1940. Irène Bizet Archive (France), from L’Émigration russe …

      3 Chapter 5Figure 5 Nadezhda Lamanova, 1880s © Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock PhotoFigure 6 Fashion design by Nadezhda Lamanova. From Tatiana Strizhenova, Soviet Costume an…Figure 7 Scene from Le train bleu by Jean Cocteau. © AFP / Getty Images

      4 Chapter 6Figure 8 Sergei Diaghilev painted by Léon Bakst, 1906. Saint Petersburg, State Russian Mu…Figure 9 Kitmir Broderie poster

      5 Chapter 8Figure 10 Paris World Expo 1937, Soviet pavilion on the right © AFP / Getty ImagesFigure 11 Model of the Palace of Soviets by Boris Iofan © ITAR-TASS News Agency / Alamy St…

      6 Chapter 9Figure 12 Polina Zhemchuzhina at her deskFigure 13 Gabrielle Chanel in a sailor top with her dog © UtCon Collection / Alamy Stock P…Figure 14 Polina Zhemchuzhina with her husband Vyacheslav Molotov, Moscow 1963 © TopFotoFigure 15 Polina Zhemchuzhina’s grave in Moscow © Alexander Perepelitsyn / Alamy Stock PhotoFigure 16 Gabrielle Chanel’s grave in the Cimetière du Bois-de-Vaux, Lausanne © Phil Rees…

      7 Chapter 12Figure 17 Olga ChekhovaFigure 18 Alexander A. BogomoletsFigure 19 Edition of the book by Alexander A. Bogomolets, The Prolongation of Life, Kiev, …

      8 Chapter