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"Unknown Woman" is a painting by Russian artist Ivan Kramskoy, painted in 1883. The canvas depicts a young woman riding in an open carriage along Nevsky Prospect near the pavilions of the Anichkov Palace. The Alexandrinsky Theatre can be seen behind her to the right. She is dressed in the latest fashion of the 1880s. She is wearing a velvet hat with feathers, a coat decorated with fur and ribbons, a muff and thin leather gloves. Her look is regal, mysterious and a little sad. Her outfit, a "Francis" hat, trimmed with elegant light feathers, "Swedish" gloves made of the finest leather, a "Skobelev" coat decorated with sable fur and blue satin ribbons, a muff, a gold bracelet, all these are fashionable details of women's clothing of the 1880s, claiming expensive elegance.