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"Krasnaya Moskva" (Красная Москва / "Red Moscow") Eau de cologne flacon
Object/Artifact
Flat, wide flask-form bottle in colorless pressed glass with rounded shoulders and a short externally-threaded neck. A molded "jagged arch" (зубчатая арка) relief band — the brand's signature crenellated/Kremlin-wall motif — spans the upper body above the label. Cream/ivory ribbed-top plastic screw cap (vertical knurling on the rim, smooth body), aged and yellowed. A small residue of oxidized amber cologne remains pooled at the base; the bottle is otherwise empty. A figured red paper label with white lettering is centered on the front: "ОДЕКОЛОН" across the top, "КРАСНАЯ МОСКВА" arched around a large stylized white "M."
2025.6.30
Belonged to Mirta Martínez
"Krasnaya Moskva" is the most famous and enduring fragrance of Soviet perfumery. Its formula descends from a pre-revolutionary composition (popularly tied to the Brocard/Henri Brocard house and a 1913 scent associated with the Romanov tercentenary, "Lyubimy buket imperatritsy" / "the Empress's favorite bouquet"); after nationalization it was reworked and relaunched by the Moscow factory Novaya Zarya, with the launch of "Krasnaya Moskva" most commonly dated to 1925. The eau de cologne (одеколон) version was a cheaper, lower-concentration, mass-market staple sold for decades and widely recognized across the socialist bloc.
The Martínez Suquet family collection
Mirta Martínez Forteza collection
2025.6
Mirta Suquet
Gift
Novaya Zarya
Moscow
U.S.S.R.
Eastern Europe
Europe
Red Moscow
Flacon design: signature "jagged arch" element credited to Novaya Zarya's in-house artist A. Evseev (design attribution; not a mark on this object). Date: Soviet-era circa 1960s–1980s. The cream (non-red) plastic cap argues against a post-mid-1990s production (red plastic caps post-date that point), and the relief figured label and molded arch read as vintage. However, this flat flask form does not match the standard documented rectangular "jagged-arch" Novaya Zarya flacon series.
Label
ОДЕКОЛОН, КРАСНАЯ МОСКВА
Russian
cologne, red moscow
Molded glass: "jagged arch" relief band, no legible molded text (no volume, GOST/OST, or price visible in this view). Label (lithographed, white on red): "ОДЕКОЛОН / КРАСНАЯ МОСКВА" around a stylized "M." No factory logo (no ТЭЖЭ/TEZHE mark).
14 cm
8 cm
2.5 cm
Glass flask body; threaded screw cap.
Glass
Plastic
Colorless pressed/molded glass; cream/ivory plastic (celluloid- or bakelite-type) screw cap; lithographed paper label; trace residue of cologne liquid.
Fair
Mirta Martínez Forteza
owner
Pinar del Río
Pinar del Río
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
ownership
Moscow
U.S.S.R.
Eastern Europe
Europe
production
Sources: Wikipedia (EN/RU) on Krasnaya Moskva and Novaya Zarya history; Novaya Zarya official shop listings for the current odekolon; Fragrantica/Parfumo brand histories; and especially collector Viktoria Vlasova's dated typology of "Krasnaya Moskva" flacons (fifi.ru, "Хронология Красной Москвы"), which establishes the no-red-caps-before-mid-1990s point and the figured-label/screw-cap dating signals — though her typology documents the standard rectangular flacon, not this flask form, which is why the date here stays tentative.