Photos of privates and non-commissioned officer of the army corps of RIA

Cabinet-portrait. The perfectly illustrates the appearance of an army corps for more than a quarter of a century (1881 – 1907), in cold and warm season. Standing soldier on the left wearing Barashkova cap with the emblem and insignia of a part of, a uniform without buttons, with clasp on hooks, wide trousers and boots with "charges". On the collar are visible cloth flaps the same color as the cap band (this measure when it was adopted in order to save, and the soldiers sometimes joke that "the king did not have enough colored cloth"). Color combination valve (light blue) and shoulder strap (red) suggests that SolDat is in the second regiment infantry division. Uniform belted waist belt black leather with smooth jeleznodorojnoe badge. Standing to the right of a non-commissioned officer instead of a uniform dressed in a gym shirt in white cloth, which from 1869 allowed to have on all ranks of the permanent structure of peace. From 1896, these shirts were allowed to wear in hot weather instead of a coat and to wear on their shoulder-straps, the same uniformed, with all provisions of the insignia. The white shirt was lifted only in the early 1900s in connection with the emergence of uniforms of a protective color. The guarantee of authenticity.