Do you know who was hiding behind figures on the popular deck of cards in the USSR? You would never guess!

All you know this deck of cards.
You can see it in every post- SSSR  houses !  

At the first sight , it is usual cards and nothing special..
We used to see it and all this card hero seems like usual and boring.

Butt…

A little kind of people know that prototype of card heroes are members of last costume party Romanovych in 1903

Сlub lady  and her prototype — princess Elizabeth Fedorovna

Heart lady and her prototype —  princess Ksenia Aleksandrovna

Prototypes of Сlub lady and Jack of Diamonds

Cards "Russian style"

Costumes designed by the artist Sergey Solomko, and sewed them to the best tailors of the Russian Empire.