A staff or personal adjutant's aide-de-camp RIA

In the old Russian army, adjutants were divided into three categories. Staff adjutants performed clerical duties at headquarters, personal officers carried out orders from military commanders, regimental, brigade and battalion officers were in charge of the offices of their units, and were also responsible for transmitting orders from their superiors to the executors. In addition, the regimental adjutant was responsible for the music choir (regimental orchestra) and the school of soldiers' children, if there was one in the unit. Since 1874, the silver aiguillette, consisting of two plaits (short and long), two loops and two ends with tips, served as the external distinguishing sign of all adjutants. In the upper part, the loops and wattles were connected by a cloth foot, fastened to a button sewn on the right shoulder of the uniform under the epaulette or shoulder strap. Since 1877, adjutant aiguillettes, to distinguish them from the aiguillettes of officers of the General Staff and the ranks of the imperial retinue, were ordered to be made of ulan etiquette cord – silver with black and orange silk. Lead pencils were once placed in the tips of the aiguillettes, but by the beginning of the twentieth century these details had become purely decorative. In practice, during the First World War, adjutants of all categories, for reasons of economy, often used aiguillettes woven from silver or white silk cord without black and orange holes. The silver curly tips of the aiguillettes were the same as in peacetime. The color of the foot corresponded to the color of the instrument cloth, which was red for staff and personal adjutants. Guarantee of authenticity.