Uniforms of Russian army of Peter I the Great: from the reign of peter I to Catherine I peter II Anna and Ivan VI. 1682-1741 (Soldiers Weapons & Uniforms 700)

Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the histoThry of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . This issue is related to the army during the Peter the Great era. The Viskovatov’s enormous work is based on a great quantity of archival documents and contains four thousand colored and b/w illustrations. It is composed by 30 or 34 volumes (1st edition 1-30, St. Petersburg, 1841-62, and 2nd edition Vols. 1-34, St. Petersburg - Novosibirsk - Leningrad, 1899-1948). The topics discussed start from the early czars until the late nineteenth century. Soldiershop edition add at this important work several new enriched and colorful plates, which together with the unedited publication in English make this collection extremely interesting !