Product Description
Life Guard Cossack Figure. Beautifully detailed, lovingly recreated and painted carved figure of an aide-de-camp uniform circa 1900 - scarlet cherkesska with gold edging and pipings, beshmet, blue breeches with yellow stripes, and papakha. The Life Guard Cossacks were an elite unit of the Imperial Russian Army which belonged to the Guard Corps and the escort of the Tsar (Собственный Его Императорского Величества Конвой). The convoy of the Tsar consisted of the 1st and 2nd Kuban Life Guards and the 3rd and 4th Terek Cossack Life Guards. Head swivels and arms are poseable. Everything is wood, including saber, which can be placed into the right hand of the figure. Bogorodsk or Sergiev Posad, circa 1997. Initials of the artist on the bottom of the boots. 8¾" in height, 1 only.