Lot of two photos of a soldier of the Russian guard and, subsequently, Estonian army

One of the photographs, earlier, shows the ordinary guards infantry regiment. Even during the war, the guardsmen proudly wear their differences on marching uniforms – the covering of colored ribbons on the cuffs and chest slit shirt. Color the chest ribbon can be defined as light blue, which might indicate belonging to one of the three regiments of guards infantry: Semenov, Grenadier or Kexholm. The shoulder straps are red, the sample times of peace, without any encryption. Cloth shirt – presumably, sample 1912, and the location of the closure is the result of printing a mirror image of the negativity that in time of war?

In the second photo is the same character depicted with the insignia of the Estonian army 1919 sample of Light blue hexagonal shoulder straps with white edging repeat two of the three national colors of the Estonian flag. The badge is of the earliest type, in the form of stylized five-pointed rosette with the center in the colors of the national flag, mounted immediately after the start of the liberation war, in December 1918, In March 1919 it was replaced with the oval badge, but the old furniutre continued to be used until 1920. All other clothing (a cloth shirt, cap and trousers), no doubt left over from the service of the old Russian army. In the Soviet years service in the armed forces "white governments" (which was equal and Estonian) could cause serious problems, so in our days, similar sets of photographs are extremely rare.