Printed by: Drawings of clothes and weapons of the Russian troops: In 30 parts. H. 21. St. Petersburg: lit. Red. Ross . Military. Chronicles; Paris: Imp. Lemercier, 1860. [2],151 l. il. Multivolume work "Historical description of clothing and weapons of the Russian troops, with drawings, drawn by the highest order", published in St. Petersburg in 1841 - 1862, and to this day is one of the most popular publications on the history of military costume In it, magnificent illustrations are presented and accompanied by a detailed description of military and civilian costumes for the period from 862 to the reign of Emperor Nicholas I, military uniforms, weapons, flags of various military units, military insignia. The beginning of work on this work dates back to 1830, when, by decree of Emperor Nicholas I, a special Committee was founded to compile a historical description of the clothes and weapons of the Russian troops, the chairman of which was appointed by P.. A. Kleinmichel . In the course of the work of the Committee, materials and archival information were collected, chronologically covering the period from the Middle Ages to January 1835, subsequently systematized by kind and type of troops by Colonel Bibikov .. The continuation of the work was entrusted to the mathematics teacher of the 1st Cadet Corps of the Staff Captain . Alexander Vasilievich Viskovatov (1804 1858). He independently prepared the first part of the publication, the subsequent ones were a tested, corrected and supplemented version of the draft materials. Bibikov . Perhaps this is why Viskovatov did not point to the title page of the most capital of his labors of his own name .. The work was also attracted by the artist-bathalist, court painter .. ) K. Pirate, under the direction and with the personal participation of which illustrations were created. Among their compilers and masters included a whole galaxy of famous names: this is the famous artist and archaeologist. G. Sun, Engraver and . P. Friedritz, as well as employees of the Military Topographic Depot of the Main Staff, one of whose departments was specially devoted to engraving. The publication was published from 1841 to 1862 in the form of notebooks with attached illustrations in two versions. in expensive (text on Vatman, and drawings on Chinese paper) - with partially painted illustrations, and in cheaper (text on veleneva, drawings on French paper) - with black and white illustrations . The text was printed in the Military Printing House at the General Staff, drawings until 1842 - in the lithograph of the Department of Military Settlements, and then - in the lithograph of the Main Directorate of Communications and Public Publications .. The publication of 1841-1862 was the property of the War Ministry and was not widely distributed, although it immediately won public recognition and in 1843 was awarded the Demidov Prize. Imperial Academy of Sciences . Printed in a small print run, by the end of the 19th century it had become a great bibliographic rarity, since only the largest metropolitan collections possessed a complete set of notebooks. Partly in 1899-1902, and partly in 1944, a reprint of this work was undertaken in a cheaper version with black and white illustrations. The publishing house "Alfaret" presents to your attention a reproduction of the first and most complete edition of this work with partially painted illustrations. consisting of thirty parts "Historical description of the clothes and weapons of the Russian troops" and thirty parts "Pictures to the historical description of clothing and weapons of the Russian troops" .