The surprising history of семейные трусы (family underwear)

🔻This type of underwear originated in the Soviet Union back in the distant 1930s, and, strangely enough, it owes its emergence to the Soviet people's love for physical education and sports.

🔻At that time, a healthy lifestyle and sports were actively promoted in the country.

🔻Athletes wore uniforms consisting of a t-shirt or tank top and wide, short shorts – the very ones that became the forerunners of the famous "семейные трусы".

🔻Comfortable, not restricting movement, and not constricting the body thanks to the elastic waistband, they provided free ventilation and reliably covered all intimate areas.

🔻Unsurprisingly, what were then called "smooth, simplified shorts" quickly gained popularity not only among athletes. People far removed from sports also began to buy them – to wear at home, in the company of family, as ordinary home wear. Hence the name "семейные трусы".

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One of the episodes associated with Shuvalovsky Park (St Petersburg) is the romantic and sad story of the life of one of its owners – Countess Varvara Petrovna Shuvalova.

🔻Princess Varvara Petrovna first married at the age of 18 to Count Pavel Andreevich, who was 20 years her senior. The Count was a hero of the War of 1812. The marriage was happy, and two sons were born. But in 1823, Count Shuvalov died. Varvara Petrovna grieved, and went abroad.

🔻Three years later, she met Adolphe Polier, a handsome Swiss man, and married him. The couple loved each other and were happy. Adolphe put the estate's affairs in order, inspected the extensive holdings in the Urals, and discovered a diamond deposit there. But after this trip, he fell ill and died in 1830.

🔻The Countess's grief was immense. For the burial of her husband, a crypt in the Gothic style was built in the park in the same year, designed by the architect Bryullov. In the summer of 1831, a church was laid. Varvara Petrovna grieved for several years, to the point that her lifestyle began to be considered eccentric.

🔻This continued for several years. During this period, Adolphe's Alley was created in the park, and a bridge, the Polier Bridge, was built across the stream on this alley.

🔻After mourning her beloved husband for three years, Varvara Petrovna leaves St. Petersburg and goes to Europe. There she meets her new chosen one, the German Georg Wilding, Prince Butera, but her third husband also died five years after the wedding.
Varvara Petrovna died and was buried in Wiesbaden in 1870.

🔻There is a legend that Varvara Petrovna made a vow at Adolphe's grave, but broke it by marrying a third time. Therefore, she could not find peace, and her ghost appears near the crypt at night.

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