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Another step in my Poltava project, the Russian Guards and
some Grenadiers (once again they are mostly Strelets with some Zvedza).
First of all the Preobrashenski regiment represented here
with four basis, one for battalion:
there were of course some variations in the uniform details, as
ever with the russians. I opted for the red socks/gaiters version. The
grenadier headgear is of the type introduced from 1709-10. At Poltava they had
more probably a grenadier cap of this sort:
The Semeonovski regiment which I painted in this shade of
blue:
A nice thing of the Russian is that one can paint different regiments in
various shades of the same color (indeed this happened at company level, many
times with different coat colors within the same regiment). In both cases the
flag were scanned from the Hoglund book. The regimental commander, Prince
Golytzin, was wounded at Narva. The regiment was on three battalions.
The DuBois grenadier regiment: according to Hoglund it was
raised in 1708 from the grenadier coys of
7 regiments.
Its full name was “General Enzberg’s Grenadier Regiment”
but at Poltava was know with the name of its commander, De Bois or Du Bois.
From 1712 it became the 4th Grenadier Regiment.
One of the various Strelets oddities is the so-called
“Streltsi Bonus figure”. In many boxes there is a single Streltsi miniatures,
the full list here. By collecting those I had I was able to muster also a Streltsi
regiment.
I choose the 12th Moscow regiment (Nechajev), an unit with a long
battle history, from Saladen (1703) to Poltava (1709) were it seems that it
garrisoned some of the redoubts.
A final view of the russian infantry painted thus far, the
equivalent of 37 battalions: to complete the Poltava OoB I need at least 14 more
battalions whose uniforms will be red, white, green, yellow and blue, just to
add some more uniform variations.
