Photo of Lieutenant (?) The 3rd Infantry artillery brigade (division?)

By the early twentieth century all the infantry was completely unified for equipment, weapons and tactics division of the regiments of the Grenadier, infantry and infantry remained only as a tribute to tradition. Numbered infantry regiments (all of them were 20) to 1916 had twice shorter than infantry (two battalions instead of four). So the connections where infantry regiments were reduced to four, was known infantry divisions and infantry brigades. Accordingly, light field artillery attached to the infantry brigade also had to half the number (three light batteries instead of eight), and was called "small arms artillery battalion", whose number coincided with the number of the rifle brigade. Ranks of this division wore the uniform, obsahu for field artillery, but the encryption on the shoulder straps in the form of numbers and letters "S.". Before the war the division was stationed in the Kiev military district, in the city of Lityn (the County town of Podolia, now a district center of Vinnitsa region of Ukraine). The pictured officer, judging by the two stars on the shoulder straps, has a rank not below that of Lieutenant, and probably managed to graduate from the full (not accelerated) course artillerijskogo school before the war. He is dressed in a cloth shirt, a marching soldier's specimen, which many officers preferred the jacket because of its practicality and cheapness, and dark green "very dark shade" trousers, which were supplied with artillery unlike the infantry, who wore khaki trousers. Cap – in peacetime, sample 1913, with the crown and rim khaki and red edgings. The photo clearly visible shoulder straps of the officer of the rig mod. 1912, worn over the shoulder straps, and a revolving leather braided cord attached to the belt. Size 95*137 mm Guarantee of authenticity.