Mark Conrad’s Home Page - Russian Military History

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My name is Mark Conrad and this is my home page. These are translations I have done.

• 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

  • Table of Ranks, 1722-1917 (Zvegintsov, Shepelëv, Dumani).

  • 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).

  • The Life-Guards Horse, christening parade in front of Emperor Johann Antonovich, 1741 (Kanutonov, Tseikhgauz 13, 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).

  • General Mikhail Vasil’evich Kakhovskii (1734-1800), commander in the 1793 Partition of Poland (Russkii Biograficheskii Slovar’).

  • General Johan Herman (Ivan Ivanovich German) (d. 1801), engineer and commander (Russkii Biograficheskii Slovar’).

  • Field Marshal Ivan Vasil’evich Gudovich (1741-1820), Russo-Turkish wars (Russkii Biograficheskii Slovar’).

  • Ivan Grigor’evich Bardaki, naval officer in the Russo-Turkish war of 1787-92 (from Rodoslovnaya kniga, Crimean Archives).

  • 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.)

  • Attestation of services rendered by the spy Hadji Ibrahim Aga at Anapa and Ochakov, 1791 (from Crimean Regional Archives).

  • Attestation of service, volunteer Mirgidich Argutinov Izmirskii, 1793 (from Crimean Regional Archives).

  • Attestations of service, Lt. Aleksei Grigor’ev, Taurica Jäger Corps and salt inspector (from Crimean Regional Archives).

  • The Aleksandrovsk Works; a Russian armaments factory since the 18th century (Sytin’s Voennaya Entsiklopediya).

  • Charles Gascoigne, (d. 1807), Scottish director of ironworks in Russia. (Russkii Biograficheskii Slovar’).

  • Adam Armstrong (1762-1818) and Roman Armstrong (1791-1864), Scottish directors of ironworks (Russk. Biograf. Slovar’).

  • Viskovatov Vol. 7 Part A - Organization of the Russian Army 1796-1801.

  • On being drafted twice; the case of Ankudinov and the Swedish war (Paul I, 1799). (Sanktpetrburgskiya vedomosti).

  • Graf Arakcheev’s “considerate” reduction of sentences by courts-martial, 1799 (Savel’ev, Russkaya Starina 1890).

  • 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).

  • On Entering Military Service under Alexander I (Non-conscripts), (Stoletie Voennago Ministerstva; Glavnyi Shtab.)

  • On transferring lower ranks, and classification as disabled, under Alexander I (Stoletie Voennago Ministerstva; Glavnyi Shtab.)

  • Generals Friedrich Wilhelm and Petr Buxhöwden (Sytin's Voennaya Entsikolpediya).

  • Major Pavel Vlasev Antunovich, recruits for the Danube front, 1806 (from Rodoslovnaya kniga).

  • Walachian Colonel Minotts, Volunteer Unit of Pandurs, Petitions for Promotion, 1808 (S-Peterburgskii Vedomosti).

  • 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).

  • Prince Bagration’s acceptance as an officer; his gratitude years later (1812) (from Russkaya Starina).

  • 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).

  • Lt. Gen. Raevskii’s report of the Battle of Borodino, 1812.

  • Markov’s Horse Artillery Company, 1812-1814.

  • 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).

  • Riddles of the Winter Palace’s Military Gallery: Generals Zass and Rosen (Kibovskii, Tseikhgauz 13, 2001).

  • 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).

  • General Pavel Petrovich Liprandi, 1796-1864 (Russkii Biograficheskii Slovar’ and Voennaya Entsiklopediya).

  • Bistrom officers in 19th century Russia, especially Adam Ivanovich Bistrom and Karl Ivanovich Bistrom.

  • Short biography of Baron Rodrig Grigor’evich Bistrom, commander of the L.-Gds. Semenovsky Regiment c. 1850.

  • Anecdotes regarding General Thedorenko, commandant of the Novo-Georgievsk Fortress (Russkii Arkhiv, 1886).

  • Cossack General Yakov Petrovich Baklanov’s autobiography (c. 1810-1860) (Russkaya Starina, 1871).

  • K.F. Butenev (1805-1869) and N.Th. Butenev, Russian mining engineers (from Russkii Biograficheskii Slovar’).

  • 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).

  • Angelii Georgievich Sideri, officer in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-29 (from Taurica manuscript Rodoslovnaya kniga).

  • Major General Aleksandr Vasil'evich Viskovatov, 1804-58. Military historian (Voennyi Entsiklopedicheskii Leksikon, 1859).

  • Skirmish in the Balkan, by Capt. Alexander, 16th Lancers (United Service Journal, 1831).

  • Nicholas I annouces the death of the Tsesarevich Constantine Pavlovich to the Guards, 1831 (Russkii Arkhiv, 1886).

  • Regulation for reorganzing infantry regiments, divisions, and corps, 1833 (Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov, 5943).

  • Regulation for releasing lower ranks on indefinite leave, 28 February, 1834.

  • Regulation on length of service and releasing lower ranks on indefinite leave, 30 August, 1834 (Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov).

  • 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).

  • Runaways sentenced to labor on the Sevastopol fortifications, Vilna Province, 1839 (Vilenskiya vedomosti).

  • 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).

  • Reports of Medals Lost, St. Petersburg 1848 and Podolia 1853 (Russkii Invalid and Provinical Vedomosti).

  • Spiski, or the Periodic Lists of Russian Army and Navy Officers and Civilian Officials (from Volkov’s Russkii Ofitserskii Korpus). 

  • 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 Russian Occupation of the Danube Principalities: Initial Preparations and Forces (from Bogdanovich, 1877).

    • 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).

    • Tula arms for sale in St. Petersburg (newspaper notice).

    • 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).

    • The French frigate Jean d’Arc at Singapore and Admiral Sterling’s squadron, May-June 1854 (newspaper article).

    • Fighting at Arta and Peta towards the end of the Greek uprising, April 1854 (from Allgemeine Zeitung).

    • 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).

    • General Liprandi’s report on the Battle of Balaklava, 1854.

    • Prince Menshikov’s report on the Battle of Balaklava, 1854.

    • 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).

    • Lord Raglan’s report of the Battle of Balaklava.

    • Lord Lucan’s report of the Battle of Balaklava.

    • General Colin Campbell’s report of the Battle of Balaklava.

    • Memoirs of an Ingermanland Hussar Officer (Arbuzov, Voennyi Sbornik 1874).

    • The Ingermanland (Saxe-Weimar) Hussar Regiment in the Crimean War (from Genishta’s 1904 regimental history).

    • 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).

    • Eupatoria (Yevpatoria) (from Voennaya Entsiklopediya).

    • The Battle of Eupatoria (Memoria sobre el viaje militar a la Crimea... 1861).

    • Panaev’s account of the Battle of Eupatoria (Russkaya Starina, 1877).

    • Exchange of notes between Urusov and Panaev regarding 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).

    • Archive Notes: Headquarters of the 4th Infantry Corps 1848-55 (Russian State Military Historical Archive).

    • 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).

    • Sardinian Infantry Uniforms, 1843-1860 (Dall'Armata Sarda all'Esercito Italiano, Ales and Fiorentino, 1990).

    • Austrian Corps-Level Order-of-Battle, 1854-56 (from Militär-Schematismus des Österreichischen Kaiserthums).

    • Biography of Field Marshal Heinrich von Hess (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, 1880 [German and English texts]).

    • Field Marshal Hess on the deployment of Austrian forces to the Danubian Principalities (Akten zur Geschichte des Krimkriegs).

    • Austrian supply train troops in the occupation of Moldavia and Walachia (Breitwieser, 1904).

    • Austrian cuirassier picture, 1859 (Ottenfeld). Austrian infantry, 1859 (Ottenfeld).

    • Sublieutenant Glehn on Murav’ev’s 1854 Amur Expedition, and posting to Alaska (Istoricheskii Vestnik, 1889).

    • 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  

  • General Ya. I. Rostovtsov - witticisms, military education, and the freeing of the serfs (Russkaya Starina, 1907).

  • 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.

  • N. A. Verevkin (d. 1878); a general in the Khivan campaign of 1873 (Sytin’s Voennaya Entsiklopediya).

  • N. P. Lomakin (1830-1902); a general in the Caucasus and Transcaspian (Sytin’s Voennaya Entsiklopediya).

  • A. V. Komarov, general in the Trans-Caspian, victor at Kushka in 1885 (Fedorov, Zakaspiiskaya oblast).

  • 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).

  • Major General M.V. Alekseev’s misgivings during the Russo-Japanese War (Voenno-Istoricheskii Zhurnal, 1992).

  • The 3-inch mountain guns M1904 and M1909 (Sheps, Tseikhgauz 13, 2001.)

  • Russian assessment of German intentions, 1912 (From Sergeev and Ulunyan, Ne podlezhit oglasheniyu, 1999).

  • The Phanagoria Grenadier Regiment’s privilege of marching with bayonets leveled (Popov, Tseikhgauz 14, 2001.)

  • Peacetime order-of-battle, Russian Army, July 1914.

  • 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

  • K.P. Trubnikov: From Life-Guards ensign to Soviet Colonel-General (Proshlyakov, Tseikhgauz 13, 2001.)

  • Soviet Intervention in Sinkiang, 1934-37, by Pavel Aptekar’. 2000.

  • After-action technical report from the 10th Tank Division, August 1941 - covering tanks, equipment, organization, logistics.

  • Rocket Artillery in the First Phase of World War II, by Lt .Gen. Degtyarev and Col. Gurkin (Dec.1976 Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal) .

  • Three random biographies from the many in Kabardans on the Fronts of the Great Patriotic War, by V. S. Beslaneev.

  • List of 174 Kabardans from Upper Kurp who served in World War Two, most being killed (from Beslaneev).

  • Some women awarded the medal “Hero of the Soviet Union”

  • Petr Yakovlevich Artsybashev - his World War II army experiences, including a mission behind enemy lines in May, 1942.

  • Hero of the Soviet Union Guards Sergeant Major A.P. Marchenko, 63rd Guards Tank Brigade (L’vov Kholm Slavy).

  • 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).

  • Hero of the Soviet Union Guards Major Abdul Teifuk, 175th Guards Rifle Regiment, Crimean Tatar (L’vov Kholm Slavy).

  • Hero of the Soviet Union Guards Corporal V.Ye. Churkin, 177th Guards Artillery Mortar Regiment (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).

  • Proposed fanfare trumpets of 1944, and tsarist trumpets in Berlin in 1945 (Durov, Tseikhgauz 14, 2001).

  • Historian and uniformologist Petr Fedorovich Kosmolinskii, 1950-2001 (Tseikhgauz 14, 2001).
     

• Military Uniforms (Russian & Soviet)

  • Uniform changes in the Life-Guards Semenovskii Regiment, 1725-1770 (from Kartsev’s regimental history).

  • 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).

  • Uniforms and material supply under Alexander I, (Nesterov-Komarov, from Voennaya Odezhda Russkoi Armii, 1994).

  • Major General Cozens’ request regarding hats and helmets for the Kharkov Dragoons (Val’kovich, Tseikhgauz 14, 2001).

  • A.O. Orlovskii’s model drawings of dragoons, 1808 (Val’kovich, Tseikhgauz 14, 2001).

  • Hussar Uniforms 1812-1816; New Information (Val’kovich, Tseikhgauz 1991).

  • Text of O.K. Pakhaev’s 1990 set of cards on the Army of 1812: Set 4 - Arms, equipment, accouterments.

  • 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. 8 - Cuirassiers, Dragoons, Hussars, Artillery, Engineers, Garrisons 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. 11 - Cuirassiers, Dragoons, Horse-Jägers, Hussars, Lancers, Gendarmes, Train 1801-1825. (Text.)

  • Viskovatov Vol. 12 - Artillery, Sappers, Engineers, Military Laborers, His Majesty’s Suite, Topographers 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. 22 - Gendarmes, Train, Foot and Horse Artillery, Sappers, and Horse Pioneers 1825-1855. (Text.)

  • Viskovatov Vol. 23 - Engineers; Garrison, Line, Invalid, Military-Labor and Penal Units 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.

  • On uniforms and material supply under Nicholas I (M. A. Terovkin in Voennaya Odezhda Russkoi Armii, 1994).

  • Heraldry, Flags, and Civil, Court, and Military Uniforms under Nicholas I (Shepelëv, Geral’diya Rossii, 2003).

  • The white fatigue smock, or kitel’, and its antecedents, 1796-1907 (Sytin’s Voennaya Entsiklopediya and Zvegintsov).

  • Permission to export “soldier cloth” to China, 1834. (Russkii Invalid.)

  • Price list for officers’ military accouterments, St. Petersburg merchant A.S. Migunov, 1849 (Advertisement).

  • The officer-soldier greatcoat of the 1853-1856 war (Gvozdikov, Russkaya Starina, 1895).

  • Russian civil service uniforms (from Istoriya Russkoi Material’noi Kul’tury, by L. B. Belovinskii., 1996).

  • 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).

  • The Pskov Dragoon Regiment’s quest to regain the cuirass, 1898-1910 (Kilovskii, Tseikhgauz 13, 2001).

  • _Riflemen, c. 1910 (photo).

  • “Dark-green” color for lower ranks’ uniforms, c. 1914 (recollection of Michael Hitrovo).

  • _The opolchenie - photo and organization, c. 1914.  _Photo, c. 1910.

  • _More Russian photos: 196th Insar Infantry Regiment; Libau; Group of four; Anchor insignia.

  • _Still more Russian photos: Cavalry trooper; private; family group; trio.

  • _A Russian officer and his men, c. 1900.

  • White Russian medals and insignia, from Kharitonov and Gorshkov, Russkaya Armiya 1917-20.

  • Soviet insignia - East Siberian Army (1920), Labor Companies of Latvia (1919), Medics (Stepanov, Tseikhgauz 13, 2001).

  • 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

  • The Europeanized regular army of Persia, first half of the 19th century (Kibovskii and Yegorov, Tseikhgauz 1996).

  • 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.

  • Cuba:   Officers and civilians, c. 1930.

  • Germany:   Landsturm group, World War I.   Cuirassiers in barracks,1910.  

  • Great Britain:  Officer, volunteer rifle corps, c. 1870.

  • Japan: Japanese 67th Infantry Regiment, 1912.

  • Latvia: Latvian army photos, pre-World War II.

  • Monaco and San Marino: Soldiers of the Principalities of Monaco and San Marino.

  • Norway: Photo of a Norwegian army private, c. 1890.

  • Rumania:  Army album, c. 1905.

  • South Africa: Photo of a ceremonial guard, Capetown, 1996.

  • Sweden: Guard Grenadier Regiment, c. 1900.

  • 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.

  • United States: 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.

  • Peacetime order-of-battle, Belgian Army, August 1914.

  • Peacetime order-of-battle, French Army, August 1914.

  • Peacetime order-of-battle, Russian Army, July 1914.

  • Peacetime order-of-battle, British Army, August 1914.

  • Peacetime order-of-battle, United States Army, August 1914.

• Eatontown, New Jersey

  • From my own library. A catalog of Russian military history items.

    Please feel free to drop me a line with any questions, corrections, or comments. Thanks for stopping by!

    My email is box004, at gmail.com.

    Mark Conrad

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    Mark Conrad / Bel Air, Maryland