Photo of a retired officer in civilian clothes with a miniature Shoe awards

The old man with the typical strong-willed person, preserved, despite his age, military bearing, dressed in a black frock-coat, beneath which is visible a high standing collar, V neck vest, black tie and a piece of white shirtfronts. "Napoleonic" pose with one arm behind and the second behind – the imitation of retired French officers of the era of Restoration. After the abdication of Napoleon, the reduction of the army and dismissed most of them to resign, they began to wear black coats, which became for them a kind of corporate sign. For levomu Board coat fortified collected in the pad is reduced, the so-called "frachnyh" awards, specially manufactured to order for wearing civilian clothes under the costume. Among them we can consider the order of St. Stanislaus 3rd St. and SV. Anna of the 3rd century, as well as three medals. The presence of the latter together with the bearing and allows you to define a character as retired military, not official. According to awards, in active service he was promoted, most likely, to the captain, after years of command of the company after retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. So in the early twentieth century graduated from his military career most of the officers of the Russian army, which education has had only a cadet (not even military!) school. The rank of captain for them usually was the ceiling of promotion. Getting a small pension, my last jacket, which is retired, they did not wear ever. He lay in the chest, interspersed with tobacco from moths, as one of those retirees, "on the subject of an honourable death – that though in the earth to lie a soldier." The coat was practical, hard-wearing and at least a little, in contrast to the business suits of suits and business cards, resembled a military uniform. Cut off the edges of the Cabinet-portrait. Great rare footage, ornament to any collection.