Guards Lancers Great War Uniforms, equipment and weapons Russian Imperial Army

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Before the First World War, the lancers were the youngest type of Russian cavalry: for the first time, a military unit with this name appeared only in 1803 – the Lancers of His Imperial Highness Tsarevich and Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich Regiment. From him the history of the Guards Lancers – L-GV. Her Majesty’s Lancers and L-gv. His Majesty’s Lancers regiments-was traced.
This type of cavalry was borrowed from the Polish army at the end of the XVIII century, in connection with which the traditional element in the uniform all this time was the Lancers ‘ cap – “confederate”, which was greatly modified over the 100 years of the existence of the Lancers as part of the Russian troops, but retained a number of its characteristic features and attributes, including the manner of wearing. The shape of the Russian Uhlans was strongly influenced by the appearance of the ranks of the Austrian Uhlans, from which both the details of style and cut, as well as some elements of the entire uniform, were borrowed during the XIX century.
Despite this, our lancers possessed a number of unique elements of uniforms, equipment and weapons, which distinguished them both among similar units of foreign armies, and in the total mass of Russian cavalry. The Guards Uhlan regiments, as the oldest, possessed by the beginning of the XX century not only a lot of “statutory” collective awards earned in battles, but also features in the form and armament, which were elements of traditions and special differences – such as, for example, the bamboo pikes of the life lancers of “Her Majesty”.
However, many of them remained in the tseykhaus and officers ‘ baggage trains – the marching uniforms, equipment and weapons of the cavalry were strongly unified by 1914. Perhaps only the Uhlan etiquette could catch the eye (and even if it was worn) in the ranks of soldiers dressed in gray-green (protective color) gymnastic or marching shirts, and by the regimental breastplates, the color of the cuff braid or colored shoulder straps, it was possible to recognize the belonging to a particular regiment. All the more valuable is the information about the uniforms, equipment and weapons, the differences between peacetime and wartime Guards lancers in the period 1914-1917, collected in this book based on the results of research in archives, regulatory documents, memoirs, museum and private collections.