Photo of the lower ranks of the army infantry RIA

A characteristic feature of the "revolutionary army" after February 1917 – periodically occurring in the lower ranks of the badges covered in red cloth. The soldiers wear the cap of a fabric khaki military tailoring (without beading) and infantry overcoat sample of the 1911 Coat of this type with minor changes in the cut and the color of the cloth served the Russian soldier outerwear, a total of more than a century, and only at the end of the twentieth century were abolished completely. In 1914 to reduce the cost of canceled the patch on the collar of his cloak of colored cloth valves (buttonholes) on his chest ceased to sew decorative buttons and shoulder straps were made of overcoating. Waist straps – cavalry type. A characteristic feature of the uniforms of a sample of 1911 – collar with sharp corners and sew (not otborochnye as the previous models) cuffs.