RARE RUSSIAN WWI UNIFORM GYMNASTYORKA, DATED 1916
Gymnastyorka or Russian military smock first taken into use by all branches of the Imperial Russian Army at the time of the Russo-Turkish War.
Originally intended as a fatigue dress, the gymnastyorka was subsequently adopted for ordinary duties and active service wear.
This fine example is probably for an officer or NCO and displays all of the classic features of a military gymnastyorka, being a pullover with placket breast opening, with a standing collar with two button-closure, two breast pockets with flaps, and cross-straps on the shoulders for the mounting of shoulder boards or epaulets.
It is made of a bluish-green, worsted serge, machine-sewn with fine, hand-finishing and worked buttonholes.
It bears a military tailor's or clothier's stamp in black ink inside the inner rear tail with an oval outline, bearing in Cyrillic text, partially decipherable as follows: “BY ORDER OF THE GENERAL STAFF [the firm name in italics] KRASILNIKOV 1916”.
CONDITION: Very good for age. Showing only light wear. The item is described to the best of our knowledge. Please refer to pictures and email with any questions.
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WIKIPEDIA: The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of more than 900,000 regular soldiers and nearly 250,000 irregulars (mostly Cossacks). The last living veteran of the Russian Imperial Army was Ukrainian supercentenarian Mikhail Krichevsky, who died in 2008.

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