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Captain of the armored car units, scarce speciality badge, though bad condition of the pogon, most probably from the civil war as it was acquired in Belgrade (where lot of White Russians came in 1921-22).

Captain of the armored car units, scarce speciality badge, though bad condition of the pogon, most probably from the civil war as it was acquired in Belgrade (where lot of White Russians came in 1921-22).

From left to right, first, second and third are from my collection Unfortunatelly the catalogue from the exhibition Official Dress in Serbia in 19th and 20th Century is out of print for very long time. It is still by far the best book that I participated so far.

From left to right, first, second and third are from my collection Unfortunatelly the catalogue from the exhibition Official Dress in Serbia in 19th and 20th Century is out of print for very long time. It is still by far the best book that I participated so far.

When speaking of the excellence in craftsmanship, it goes for this pair as well. Poruchik of the 14th IR Olonecki, with PI cipher of the Serbian king Peter I, it's honorary chief. Unfortunatelly, my bid at this auction was not high enough....

most recent acquisition for my collection, poruchik of 151 IR

More from the same source

From the Russian book "Five Centuries of the Russian Military Uniform" peaked caps and shoulder bords of the regiments from the 9th Infantry Division (33rd Eleckii and 34th Sevskii IR form 1st Brigade, 35th Bryanskii and 36th Orlovskii IR form 2nd Brigade). Also note colours of piping and peaked cap band for each particular Regiment of the Division

You should look into the shoulder board chart from the Mollo book that Claudius has posted. It is principle that highest ranks of each category (subalterns, staff officers, generals) has no pips (stars), like Captain (Cornet), Colonel and General (Polni General). If you watch carefully, on this page you have two more colonels, of Engineers and 17th Dragoons, same principle. Otherwise, if any was considered as elite unit, those were the LG Hussars, with zig-zag pattern lace and embroidered cipher. Shown above one from my collection. Here is another one, this time Cornet of Belorussky Hussars (equivalent to Captain in infantry). Hussars always had zig-zag pattern lace. This one is also from Belgrade military museum.

The rest of both articles is on other elements of the uniform, not on the shoulder boards in particular. However, there are some Russian books (in Russian of course) with very detailed schemes (no pictures) about gold/silver lace VS particular colour or facings/pipings. This time I am enclosing one page from my article published long time ago in great Russian magazine called Zeughaus. Article was about the Montenegrin Prince (later King) Nikola I, as a honorary chief of the Imperial Russian 15th Riffle Regiment. These pogoni are in the Museum in Cetinje (ancient capital of Montenegro).

a small correction, General Lieutenant according the thick fringes

and another article on the Generals's pogoni

Oko, Mollo book is fine, but here is more serious refference on Russian pogoni by another world expert Gerard Gorokhoff, printed in one of few English edittions of the excellent French Militaria magazine, published in 1996. I am limited to 150K for pics, so it can not be better that this.

And now, something very rare, Colonel of the 17th Gussarsky Belorussky Regiment, unfortunatelly, again from the Belgrade military museum...

Kapitan of the LG Kegsholmski regiments from Warsaw, Belgrade military museum collection

Colonel of the 17th Dragonski Nizhegorodski cavalry regiment, from my collection

The b&w is so called magnate, seniro civil official's uniform. Both are hungarian style, but it is not everything with horizonatl cords a hussar dolman.

1st squadron "His Majesty's" of the LG Hussars "fligel-adjudant" - aide de camp of the Imperial suite

Engineers' Colonel from the 3rd battalion that was stationned in peace time at Vilna and served with the III rd army corps, from my collection

Red and blue are both for the Infantry. If I remember corectly, red for 1st and 3rd Regiment within a Brigade and blue for 2nd and 4th.

12th Akhtirsky Hussar Regiment Poruchik, and pilot at the same time. This one is not from my collection, unfortunatelly, but from Belgrade military museum which had a huge Russian department in 1930s

The difference in style is because these were produced in different work shops. Emblem without the background and cloth in colour of arms of service, is not a type, it is a badge with missing part.

Artillery Grenadeer Colonel from my collection

From my article published in French Militaria Magazine in April 2001

I am new on this forum, though for a long time in this topic. Chetnik from Australia has posted some pics from the books I wrote on the subject, and the pair of shoulder boards with PII cipher he posted are fake. If you have any questions about this less known subject, here I am.