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Tango01	18 Jul 2025 4:15 p.m. PST
"As previewed a couple of posts back, this is another tricorn wearing regiment, dressed in red coats with yellow facings. According to my sources, the regiment was raised in 1642 as the "2nd Moskovskiy Selective Regiment" and it was along with 1st Moskovskiy one of the two oldest regular regiments of the Russian Army. At its creation in 1642, the regiment was one of the "new organization" (also called foreign organization) regular infantry regiments that were raised during the reign of Alexey Mikhailovich because the experience of the Russo-Polish wars and of the Thirty Years' War indicated that the old organization in irregular and semi-feudal units was quite ineffective. The regiment was completed with picked volunteers from the Strelets regiments and counted between 52 and 60 companies, each of 100 men. These companies were converged in a few battalions for action. Nevertheless, the regiment still retained some irregular characteristics, and its peacetime effective strength was lesser…" Bydand link Armand
Shagnasty	19 Jul 2025 10:45 a.m. PST
Very nice!
Tango01	19 Jul 2025 5:49 p.m. PST
Glad you like them my good friend… Armand