Its not that odd of a photo when considering the uniforms that were available at the time; often Tsarist uniforms ( like here) had the boards removed, and were simply issued as "Red Army" uniforms. No time to make Soviet style buckles and such, they used what they had. I have had in some really odd Civil War era uniforms. Its a good photo though, showing such contradictions. Kim should jump in on this, he has alot of good civil war uniforms.
06-25-2005, 07:13 PM (This post was last modified: 04-16-2014, 05:36 PM by CtahhR.)
It’s pretty interesting how internet is working.
This is military cadets of Petrograd’s Red Army artillery school, so called Lenin’s junkers “Ленинские юнкера”.
Since this school was based on former Constantine’s artillery college, soviet cadets continue to officially wear this particular college tsarist cadets uniform up until 1924.
It was several red army military schools that were continue to use tsarist college uniforms. Most impressive were uniforms of 1st Tver soviet cavalry commander’s school.
Original picture looks like this and I have put these two guys together for better viewing.
I just picked up a photo of a general. The wierd thing is that it is glued to a card and there are various measurements and such around it. The guy I got it from said the markings indicate that it was a photo used in a newspaper, etc. He also tells me that he originally acquired from Paul McD. Thoughts?
Also, the buttons dont seem to have the hammer and sickle--anyone know why?
If someone can translate what it says on the back, that'd be appreciated too :)
I think it's possible, that it was used in a publication of some sort. I can't quite figure out all the text, but looks like "2nd cliché"; "S.P. Ivanov, Chief of Staff of Voronezh..."
The Lt.General is wearing an M1943 generals pullover, with green painted buttons; the buttons are the generals buttons with state seal on them, but smaller.
