Russian School Uniform: Tsarist Era Uniforms


Figure 1.--This Russian school boy wears a military style uniform. The postcard back portrait is undated, but looks like the 1910s to us, posibly during World war I. Note the very plain belted tunic-style jacket. Also notice the boots. A Russian reader tells us that the boy may be Estonian. A stamp on the back reveals the photographic studio was A. Teyn, Ravel (modern Tallinn), Pevcheskaya st. #18 (name of the street is Russian). Estonia at the time was part of the Tdarist Empire.

Russian revival style bloused tunic or military-style uniforms were often worn to school. A Russian artist has left us a fascinating image of a rural school about 1865. We are unsure at this time about the uniform regulations. Images of rural primary school show the children wearing their ordinary dress. Uniforms seem much more common in urban schools. We are not sure about primary schools. But all of the secondary schools we see shows the children wearing military uniforms. There does not seem to have been one national style. Apparently each school established its on uniform. And the syles chasnged over time. We see a range of styles, some were fancier than others eith more military features. The caps in particular were military styles.








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