Dish dining room of the Alexander cadet corps

Porcelain, decal. Diameter 24 see Emperor Alexander II cadet corps, commonly known as just Alexander, led his story from the 3rd St. Petersburg military school, founded in 1873 To 1880, the school consisted of 560 students. In 1882, in the framework of the overall reform of military educational institutions of the Empire she was transformed into the Alexander cadet corps. In the early 1880s, it remained what it has been designed exclusively for cadet-external students are being prepared, i.e. the incoming students living in the houses. 14 Jun 1886, hull was commanded to convert 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". At the same time all the officials of the corps as encryption on the shoulder straps was rated the monogram of Emperor Alexander II, 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, probably because this color was the band of the caps and tabs in almost all of the Russian cadet corps (this feature later, in 1943, was recovered in the form of Suvorov military school students). 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.