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Russian Army :
Lefortovo Palace: the Russian Military History Archive in Moscow (From Nashe Nasledie, 19/1991).
Russian battle paintings and artists, Artillery Museum (Slava Russkogo Oruzhiya, 2003).
Pre-Petrine
Andrei, a 13th century Galician boyar (Russkii Biograficheskii Slovar’).
17th-century Muscovite Select Soldier Regiments, Part 1 - Organization (Malov, Tseikhgauz 13, 2001).
17th-century Muscovite Select Soldier Regiments, Part 2 - Commanders (Malov, Tseikhgauz 14, 2001).
18th Century
Richard Cozens, shipbuilder to Peter the Great (Obshchii Morskoi Spisok).
Peter the Great’s regiments in the Caucaus, 1721-1725 (Yudin, Voenno-Istoricheskii Sbornik, 1912).
Historical Notes on the Orenburg Cossack Host (by P.I. Avdeev, 1873).
Lt. von Münchhausen and forage for Brunswick’s Cuirassiers, 1741 (Kapitonov, Tseikhgauz 14, 2001).
Field Marshal Saltykov loses his dog, 1759 (Yegorov, Tseikhgauz 14, 2001).
Expenditures of the Life-Guards Semenovskii Regiment, 1767 (Val’kovich, Tseikhgauz 14, 2001).
The Life-Guards Horse Regiment: Everyday life in barracks, 1800 (Val’kovich, Tseikhgauz 13, 2001).
Service Record of surveyor Ensign Petr Vasil’evich Getmanov, 1791 (from Crimean Regional Archives.)
Patent of Rank, Collegiate Registrator Semen Terekhovskii, 1793 (from Crimean Regional Archives.)
Viskovatov Vol. 7 Part A - Organization of the Russian Army 1796-1801.
Paul I’s warning against unfounded denunciations (Sokolovskii, Russkaya Starina, 1910).
19th Century
Organization of the Russian Army 1801-1825 (Viskovatov Vol. 10 Part A)
NEW FEBRUARY 2009 Geval'diger (Russian provost marshal) (from Sytin’s Voennaya Entsiklopediya).
The Yelisavetgrad Hussar Regiment (from Sytin’s Voennaya Entsiklopediya).
Generals Friedrich Wilhelm and Petr Buxhöwden (Sytin's Voennaya Entsikolpediya).
Major Pavel Vlasev Antunovich, recruits for the Danube front, 1806 (from Rodoslovnaya kniga).
Capture of the Akhalkalak Fortress in the Caucaus, 8 December 1811 (S-Peterburgskii Vedomosti).
Major General Yakov Petrovich Kul’nev, killed in 1812 (Russkii Biograficheskii Slovar’).
Don Cossack Opolchenie (Mass Levy) 1812 (Frantseva, Istoricheskie Zapiski, 1954).
Cossacks and other irregular cavalry, 1812 (Dr. v. Baumgartner, Zeitschrift für Heereskunde, 1943).
Crimean Tatar patriotism in 1806 and 1812 (Tavricheskiya Gubernskiya Vedomosti, 1851)
Sakovich and Jewish spies on the Polish-Russian border, 1812.
Bagration’s orders to abandon Borisov, June 1812 (Russkaya Starina, 1902).
The fighting at Vilkomir, June 1812 (from Bogdanovich’s history).
Petition of persons under arrest to be allowed to join the army, 1812 (from Russkaya Starina).
Operations of the Yamburg Dragoon Regiment around Vilkomir, June 1812.
Antonovskii’s memoirs: a grueling retreat march, June 1812 (Kharkevich’s 1812).
Three reports from Lt. Gens. Wittgenstein and Uvarov, June 1812.
Gross-Eckau, July 1812. Church records. (Russkaya Starina, 1912).
A report by A.G. Shcherbatov on the operations of the 6th Infantry Corps at Dresden, 1813.
Draft evaders in Trubchevsk District, 1813 (Russkaya Starina, 1907.)
Cases of rape by Russian soldiers in Germany, 1814 (Russkaya Starina, 1907).
Aleksandr Ivanovich Chernyshev in the Napoleonic Wars (Voennyi Entsiklopedicheskii Leksikon, 1859).
Sublieutenant Kalinin’s supposed conspiracy (S.A. Panchulidzev, Russkii Arkhiv, 1905)
Mikhailo Liparaki, Greek officer in the Russian army, 1808-1845 (Crimean Regional Archive).
St.-George medals awarded to lower ranks, 1807-1829 (from Spisok kavaleram...1829).
The Pskov Infantry Regiment, 1815-1862 (from Geniev’s regimental history).
The Vitebsk Regiment, 1815-1856 (from Galkin’s regimental history).
“Bagaderan” - Russian deserters in the Persian army, 1802-1839 (Kibovskii, Tseikhgauz No. 5, 1996).
General-of-Cavalry Graf Pavel Khristoforovich Grabbe, 1789-1875 (Voennaya Entsiklopediya).
Cossack General Yakov Petrovich Baklanov’s autobiography (c. 1810-1860) (Russkaya Starina, 1871).
Organization of the Russian Army 1825-1855 (Viskovatov Vol. 19 Part A).
Sevastopol no longer Akhtiar, Eupatoria no longer Kozlov (Russkaya Starina, 1902).
Saratov Governor Golitsyn’s critical evaluations of civil servants, 1829 (Russkaya Starina, 1905).
Skirmish in the Balkan, by Capt. Alexander, 16th Lancers (United Service Journal, 1831).
Regulation for releasing lower ranks on indefinite leave, 28 February, 1834.
The Russian Soldier—the conscripted serf (from United Service Journal, 1835).
The release of Russian captives from Khiva, 1837 and 1839 (Modestov, Russkii Arkhiv, 1915).
Mikhail and Nikolai Alekseevich Birilev, naval officers c. 1830-1880 (Obshchii Morskoi Sbornik).
Instructions for the Chief of Artillery of the Don Cossack Host, 1844.
Ivan Matveevich Manto, naval officer c. 1850-1885 (Obshchii Morskoi Sbornik).
Regulation for cadres of reserve and replacement battalions and squadrons, 18 December, 1848.
A battle between Russian and Hungarian hussars, 8 July 1849 (Voronov, Tseikhgauz 13, 2001).
Regulation for a permanent cavalry and horse-artillery reserve, 15 January, 1851.
Skoptsy for Invalid Company No. 94, 1850 (Svod voennykh postanovlenii).
Navy staffs (an article from the 1854 Russian military dictionary).
Crimean War
Organization, Tactics, and Weapons of the Russian Army (from Bogdanovich, 1877).
Russian Plans to Seize the Bosphorus, 1852-53 (from Zaionchkovskii, 1908).
The Aleksandriya Hussar Regiment at the Battle of Citate, December 1853 (Russkii Invalid, 1904).
Protection of the Russian empire, early 1854 (from Bogdanovich, 1877).
Patriotic donation by the Moscow English Club (newspaper notice).
Tula gunsmiths donate labor to the war effort (Russkii Invalid, April 1854).
Hawaiian neutrality and the visit of the Russian frigate Diana, May 1854 (newspaper article).
The slave trade in Brazil and the weakened British naval squadron, 1854 (newspaper article).
Petition from a Frenchman for Russian Citizenship, Odessa, 1854 (Sanktpeterburgskiya Vedomosti).
English prisoners from the Tiger at Moscow University (Russkaya Starina, 1896).
Cavalry march squadrons pass through Focsani to the Danube front, 1854 (from Russkii Invalid).
Gunner Horn of the Royal Horse Artillery on the Battle of the Alma (from The Times).
Memoirs of a Don Cossack artillery officer in the Crimean War (1907).
The Moscow Infantry Regiment in the Crimean War (from Smirnov’s 1890 regimental history).
The Imperial Guard in Poland, October 1854 (from L’Indépendance Belge).
Ushakov’s account of the Battle of Balaklava, 1854 (Artilleriiskii Zhurnal, 1858).
Koribut-Kubitovich’s account of the Battle of Balaklava (Voennyi Sbornik, 1859).
Kozhukhov’s account of the Battle of Balaklava (Russkii Arkhiv, 1869).
General Ryzhov’s account of the Battle of Balaklava (Russkii Arkhiv, 1870).
Kozhukhov’s critique of Ryzhov’s account of the Battle of Balaklava (Russkii Arkhiv, 1870).
Memoirs of an Ingermanland Hussar Officer (Arbuzov, Voennyi Sbornik 1874).
Egyptian naval shipwrecks in October, 1854 (newspaper notices).
Letter from Jewish convert Private Zaimulin on the Battle of Inkerman (Russkii Invalid).
The Great Storm of 14 November 1854 - How Big and How Often? (by Mark Conrad).
Russian widows sent as nurses to the Crimea (newspaper notices).
The Battle of Eupatoria (Memoria sobre el viaje militar a la Crimea... 1861).
Panaev’s account of the Battle of Eupatoria (Russkaya Starina, 1877).
Battle of Eupatoria: Deployment and report of the Azov Regiment (Russian Military Archive). (Cyrillic for Windows text).
The Battle of Eupatoria (“Memoirs of a Sevastopol Veteran”, Niva 1873).
Allied Operations out of Eupatoria, 1855 (Memoria sobre el viaje militar a la Crimea... 1861).
French Imperial Guard find white crossbelts unsuitable (L’Etoile Belge, 1855).
Wearing of the mass-levy uniform by children (St.-Petersburg City Police Gazette).
Mysterious Russian high-trajectory cannonballs at Sevastopol (Constantinople Journal).
Reasons for the fall of the Malakhov (A. Orda, Voennyi Sbornik, 1858).
The state of the Russian forces in the war (Voennyi Sbornik, 1858).
The Sevastopol Bratskoe Cemetary (Deacon Ioann Bystryakov, 1902).
Father Evgenii Nikolaevich Popov and the Russian prisoners at Lewes (Russkii Invalid, 1856).
The Sardinian Army and Navy of 1854 (from Annuario Militare Ufficiale).
Austrian supply train troops in the occupation of Moldavia and Walachia (Breitwieser, 1904).
Austrian cuirassier picture,
1859 (Ottenfeld).
Austrian infantry, 1859
(Ottenfeld).
Ensign Baranov on Murav’ev’s 1854 Amur Expedition, and voyage to Alaska (Russkaya Starina, 1891).
Conscription Resistance in Egypt; Said Pasha and the Sheikh Class (Newspaper reports).
A post-armistice exchange of coins: Russian-English-French (from Russkii Invalid).
The Russian Crimean War Medal: Official manifesto and War Ministry regulations, 26 August 1856.
Post-Crimean War
Prince N. A. Orlov and the abolition of corporal punishment (Russkaya Starina, 1902).
Russia and the Serb Wars for Independence, as seen by the Soviet Military Encyclopedia.
Russian Army Life in Finland in the 1870’s and 80’s (L. L. Drake, Russkaya Starina, 1909).
Cadet Kuprin and his drinking problem, 1887 (Tyapkov, Tseikhgauz 13, 2001).
20th Century
Russian operations in the Boxer Rebellion (Kersnovskii, Istoriya Russkoi Armii, 1994).
The 3-inch mountain guns M1904 and M1909 (Sheps, Tseikhgauz 13, 2001.)
Distribution of corps to armies, 1914-1917 (From a 1979 Putevoditel' to the Army Archive).
Life and Death in Narva, 1918-20 (Kreenholm Orthodox Church records).
Soviet
Soviet Intervention in Sinkiang, 1934-37, by Pavel Aptekar’. 2000.
Soviet spy
N.I. Kuznetsov in the L’vov Region, 1944 (L’vov Kholm
Slavy).
Guards Colonel V.B. Borsoev, Buryat
anti-tank artillery commander (L’vov Kholm Slavy).
Guards Colonel V.S. Gaev, 42nd Separate Guards Heavy Tank Brigade (L’vov Kholm Slavy).
Guards Lieutenant P.A. Yegorov, 152nd Guards Signal Battalion (L’vov Kholm Slavy).
Guards Captain V.M. Zaichik, Jewish technical officer (L’vov Kholm Slavy).
Guards Colonel A.L. Kuznetsov, 31st Separate Guards Flamethrower-Tank Brigade (L’vov Kholm Slavy).
Major K.M. Naumenko, 5th Mobile Tank Repair Platoon, postwar casualty (L’vov Kholm Slavy).
Guards Major General B.I. Shneider, 7th Guards Army, Georgian (L’vov Kholm Slavy).
Historian
and uniformologist Petr Fedorovich Kosmolinskii, 1950-2001
(Tseikhgauz 14, 2001).
Military Uniforms (Russian & Soviet)
Some uniform innovations of Paul I, especially hair styles (Pulyaev, Staryi Peterburg).
Uniforms of the Mines Administration 1745-1855 (Shepelëv, Tseikhgauz 13, 2001).
Uniforms of the Forestry Administration 1803-1855 (Popov & Shepelëv, Tseikhgauz 14, 2001).
“Under the Halberd”. Municipal Police Uniforms 1800-1860 (Popov, Tseikhgauz 2002).
A.O. Orlovskii’s model drawings of dragoons, 1808 (Val’kovich, Tseikhgauz 14, 2001).
Hussar Uniforms 1812-1816; New Information (Val’kovich, Tseikhgauz 1991).
Viskovatov Vol. 7 Part A - Organization of the Russian Army 1796-1801.
Viskovatov Vol. 7 Part B - Grenadiers, Musketeers, and Jägers 1796-1801. (Text.)
Viskovatov Vol. 10 Part A - Organization of the Russian Army 1801-1825.
Viskovatov Vol. 10 Part B - Grenadiers, Musketeers, Marines, Jägers, Carabiniers 1801-1825. (Text.)
Viskovatov Vol. 19 Part A - Organization of the Russian Army 1825-1855.
Viskovatov Vol. 19 Part B - Grenadiers, Marines, and Infantry 1825-1855. (Text.)
Viskovatov Vol. 20 - Carabiniers, Jägers, Rifles, and Cuirassiers 1825-1855. (Text.)
Viskovatov Vol. 21 - Dragoons, Horse-Jägers, Lancers, and Hussars 1825-1855. (Text.)
Viskovatov Vol. 24 - Guards Infantry and Guards Cuirassiers 1825-1855. (Text.)
Viskovatov Vol. 29 - Don Cossacks and Black-Sea Cossacks 1825-1855. (Text.)
ERRATA in earlier printed versions of my 1996-98 translations of Viskovatov’s Vols. 10, 11 & 19.
Permission to export “soldier cloth” to China, 1834. (Russkii Invalid.)
The officer-soldier greatcoat of the 1853-1856 war (Gvozdikov, Russkaya Starina, 1895).
Grenadiers 1867
Gendarmes 1872
Generals 1873
Grenadier 1874
Artillery 1878 (Piratskii).
Hot weather and white kepi covers, 1877 (from the 137th Nezhin Infantry’s regimental history).
Long-service
non-commissioned officer, Warsaw, c. 1890 (photo).
Badges and jetons of the Yelisavetgrad Cavalry School (Petrakov, Tseikhgauz 14, 2001).
“Dark-green” color for lower
ranks’ uniforms, c. 1914 (recollection of Michael Hitrovo).
_The opolchenie - photo and
organization, c. 1914.
_Photo, c. 1910.
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_More Russian photos: 196th Insar
Infantry Regiment; Libau; Group of four; Anchor insignia.
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_Still more Russian photos:
Cavalry trooper; private; family group; trio.
White Russian medals and insignia, from Kharitonov and Gorshkov, Russkaya Armiya 1917-20.
Guards cap tallies of the Soviet navy (Stepanov, Tseikhgauz 14, 2001).
Headdress emblems of the Russian Federation Navy, 1992-98 (Stepanov, Tseikhgauz 13, 2001).
New insignia for the Russian Federation General Staff 1997-2000, by Oleg Kuznetsov. (Tseikhgauz 10)
Other Countries
Austria-Hungary:
Artillery private, c.
1910.
Marksman, c. 1910.
Marksman, 1915.
Bavaria:
Chevauleger trooper, c.
1890.
Private, Ingolstadt, c.
1900-1910.
Thirteen enlisted men, 1914.
Belgian Congo:
_The Belgian Congo in the
1930s.
Bulgaria:
Officer candidate, 1914.
Officers, 1910.
Cadet, 1900.
Canada:
Buglers of the 27th Lambton
Regiment (St. Clair Borderers), Canadian Militia, 1912.
Germany:
Landsturm group, World War
I.
Cuirassiers in barracks,1910.
Great Britain:
Officer, volunteer rifle corps, c.
1870.
Monaco and San Marino:
Soldiers
of the Principalities of Monaco and San Marino.
Rumania:
Army album, c. 1905.
South Africa:
Photo of a ceremonial guard, Capetown,
1996.
Switzerland:
Swiss Infantry in peace and war,
1900-1914.
Turkey:
Officer, World War I.
Officer, World War I.
Two
officers, former POWs in Russia.
NEW FEBRUARY 2009
Turkey:
Turkish
soldiers in the field, Balkan Wars 1912-1913.
United States:
Photo
of a Toledo, Ohio, National Guard unit, c.1900-1910.
United States:
On parade down Main Street,
c.1900-1910.
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Three photos of the U.S. 14th
Infantry Regiment, c. 1910.
United States:
Company Portraits of the 21st Infantry,
c. 1913.
NEW JANUARY
2009 United States:
West Point Musician, c. 1910.
United States:
Photo of
officers of the 2nd Regiment, New York National Guard, c. 1910.
United States:
Enlisted man of the 2nd Regiment,
Pennsylvania National Guard, c. 1910.
NEW
FEBRUARY 2009United States:
Enlisted man of
the Kansas National Guard, c. 1910.
United States and France:
Poilous and a Doughboy,
c. 1918.
United States:
Girlfriend models the sergeant's
uniform, c. 1930.
Eatontown, New Jersey
From my own library. A catalog of Russian military history items.
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Mark Conrad