Photos of soldiers L-Guards of the Preobrazhensky regiment at the front

The postcard format is the best demonstration of what was the appearance of the soldiers at the front, already had time to participate in the fighting. Most of the images – the lower ranks of the army's light artillery, as evidenced by their weapons (Dragoon checkers sample 1881 and revolvers). Standing in the center of elder while flaunting epaulets peacetime, made of red cloth, with three stripes of white braid, which can be considered artillery emblem in the form of crossed cannons and the number (unfortunately unreadable). Draws attention to the manner of carrying revolving cord shoulder girth (the soldier standing third from the left). Such a regulation method was quite popular among gunners and armed with a revolver technical ranks of the armed forces; presumably, this was done in order to loop from the cord did not cling to protruding parts of the guns and mechanisms. In addition, among the images there are several soldiers of the Preobrazhensky Life guards regiment. To distinguish the guards (standing fourth and sixth on the right, and both sitting in the center) on the hull of colored ribbons on Hiking shirt: white on the cuffs, denoting the 1st guards infantry division, and the scarlet on the breast strap that is assigned to the first regiment in the division. In addition, standing sixth from the right is clearly visible the regimental badge of the Preobrazhensky regiment, which was approved in 1909 is Interesting is also the age depicted. Two lying in the foreground is a typical forty-year "the beard" called out of stock already on the slope of the maximum age (one of them visible honoured before the war, medals "For diligence" in memory Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905 and during the campaign in China 1900-1901). Standing on the extreme left, the so – called "young volunteer" (this term during the First world war called those whom we are accustomed to call "son of the regiment"). On the back of the photo inscription Dating. Beautiful story, a kind of social snapshot of the Russian army of that time. Recommended!