Dish dining room of the Alexander cadet corps

The cadet corps of Emperor Alexander II, colloquially known as just Alexander, led his descent from was founded in 1873 3rd St. Petersburg military school, what to 1880, consisted of 560 students. In 1882, in the framework of the overall reform of military educational institutions of the Empire, the gymnasium was transformed into the Alexander cadet corps. In the early 1880s feature of the case stayed the same, otlichie from other buildings of the Empire, representing a closed military schools, he was exclusively on cadet-external students are being prepared, i.e. the incoming students living in the houses. 14 Jun 1886 building was converted to common cadet corps bases in the form of so-called boarding school (pupils lived directly in the building), with a staff of 300 cadet. 19 Feb 1903, in honor of its 30th anniversary, received the official name "Cadet corps of Emperor Alexander II corps" in memory of the founder, while in use continued to be called "Alexander". Then all the officials of the corps was rated the monogram of Emperor Alexander II on epaulettes and shoulder straps, rendered of the cadets and lower ranks of yellow paint on the stencil, and the officers visualise gold cantel. Presumably, it was the anniversary on the factory of M. S. Kuznetsov, was commissioned a full set of dishes for the body, in order to use it at a gala dinner. It is characteristic that on the plate stated that the abbreviated new official name of the case. The red color is selected for application, as this color was the band of the caps and tabs in almost all of the Russian cadet corps (later, in 1943, this feature was restored in the form of Suvorov schools). Durable Kuznetsovsky porcelain was in operation until the closing of the corps in late 1917 Despite this, and the plate, and the image is preserved perfectly. Kollekcionnoe excellent condition. Diameter of 250 mm Guarantee of authenticity.