Figure 1.--These two boys are wearing the uniforms of their secondary school in Tsarist Russia. Apparently all Tsarist secondary schools had military uniforms. We do not know where the school was located. There was no indication on the portrait.
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Figure 1.--These two boys are wearing the uniforms of their secondary school in Tsarist Russia. Apparently all Tsarist secondary schools had military uniforms. We do not know where the school was located. There was no indication on the portrait. |
We have found a few references to Tsarist-era military schools, but we do not yet know much about them. One of the earliest European military schools as we now know them was founded in Russia. Peter the Great fomded a miliary academy in 1698. We believe that this was the first Russian military school. We do not have, however, any detailed information about that school. Another source notes a military school founded in 1732, but again we have no detailed information. This subject is somewhat difficult to research in the photographic record because as best we understand, Russian secondary schools had military-styled warning. This in images we have found we believe they are regular school uniforms and not military schools. We notice quite a number of portraits of Russian boys wearing these school uniforms. We at first thought they were military acadany cadets, but we now realize that they are regular students and that their school just had a cadey-style uniform. We are not sure if the actual military schools had destinctive uniforms.
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