Could not help myself but to buy the lone pack sitting in the store's new bargain bin. It is ex-Victrix metal selection. Discovered upon getting home and, more importantly getting the reading glasses on - getting old just sucks - that they are of the earlier 1805 uniform with waist belt and round backpack. With the simple thought that the basic uniform is the same - a Russian is a Russian - I painted them up nonetheless, adding a Perry officer who, with swinging sword, also serves to fill in the extra gap in the line with the lack of numbers.
The regiment is famous for the continued wearing of the old-fashioned mitre headdress and was an elite unit and in 1813 was elevated to the Russian Imperial Guard. Officers wore shakos apparently allowing me to use the additional officer figure.
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