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Russian Infantry Facings - Inspection Era

Introduction

The outside of the pompon was colored by battalion, but the sequence was determined by the number of battalions in the unit.

NOTES

For aesthetic purposes, the miter head band of some regts varied:
1. black
2. blue¹⁴
3. as Inspection
4. lt.green
5. Kosmolinskii gives Stary Oskol a dk.green miter hat band, but Ulyanov has a dark band for Old Ingermanland instead and this seems more likely.
6. Saratov was displaced by Kura Jan. 10, 1803
7. Petrovsk took dk.green facings
8. becoming dk.green piped red Nov. 27, 1804
9. New regts created Sept. 10, 1805 displaced the existing regiments. The facings the latter had June 21, 1805 may indicate they took new colors in anticipation: Koporye - violet Volhynia - dk.green Galich - azure¹⁴
10. The new regiments had 5 buttons on the cuff, except the Yakutsk which had 3.
11. Yekaterinoslav was moved to the Crimea Inspection.
12. Most likely, Tver was displaced to this position when Vologda and Veliki Ustyug were raised Aug. 15 1804.
13. Some regiments used lt.green pompon centers to avoid clashes with battalion color, including all line regiments with lt.crimson distinctives.
14. Russian distinguishes between lighter and darker values of the blue hue. I have used azure for the former and blue for the latter.
15. Follows Ulyanov and Zweguintzow. Viskovatov gives red.
16. It is not clear if these facings changed when the Jaeger coat changed to dk.green on November 19, 1807.
17. It is not clear if the cuff and collar were piped, and if so whether in dk. or lt.green.

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