The Moscow Pioneer children made the kokoshnik, the pearl headdress, of the sarafan (folk dress) they gave Samantha.
She wore the costume when visiting the Central Pioneer Palace in Moscow, a meeting facility for the Young Pioneer groups in the city, and posed in it for the cover of Soviet Life magazine.
Samantha described the Young Pioneers as similar to Boy or Girl Scouts, "except that their activities teach them about communism instead of democracy."
