Sunday 3 November 2019

1756 Ekatharina the Great and her army ...

Helen Mirren and HBO are baffling us with a series on said Zarina at the moment, so what better time finish painting my Seven Years War army of Russian "peasants", ready put a little fear back into Fredrick the Great and his (tin-) soldiers to come...

enjoy ...


The whole lot 

The Viyatsky Dargoons

The Garde a cheval 

The first cavalry brigadier with staff officer

the Artillery brigade with 1st and 3rd Pandurs skirmishers

The artillery brigadier with staff officer and some 6pdrs

The 1st Grenadier regiment ...

and the Preobrazhensky Life Guard 

The Novgorod and Schlusselburg regiments with infantry brigadier 

The Novgorod and Schlusselburg regiments with a howitzer 

the Moskovskiy and Ingermanlandskiy regiments with howitzer

The CinC with staff officer

The Georgian Hussars 


The Life Guards (Cuirassiers)

The second cavalry brigadier with staff officer

3 comments:

  1. Wow, superb units, love the impressive Grenadiers...

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  2. Amazing! Cannot wait to see them on the table.

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