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Fuseler of elected soldiers' regiments, 1698-1702. Russia
 
Creating a new Russian regular army, Peter I relied on only two Moscow elective (ie, selective) regiments: the 1st Regiment under the command of the Geneva-born Colonel Franz Lefort and the 2nd Regiment (Butyrsky) under the command of Scottish General Patrick Gordon. These regiments, collected back in 1642 under Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich as the "regiments of the new system", were the best infantry of the state. They also served as a model for the formation of the "amusing" regiments of Preobrazhensky and Semyonovsky.
The old elective regiments of Lefortovsky and Butyrsky, as well as the elected regiments of Preobrazhensky and Semyonovsky, who became Peter's Life Guards in 1700, served as a model for the formation of 29 new recruiting (composed of newly recruited people) regiments of soldiers.
In the summer of 1700, Peter declared war on Sweden and moved the newly formed army to the fortress of Narva. Novopribornye shelves, along with two "old" elected and five streltsy were divided into four general divisions: A.M. Golovin, A.A. Veide, Prince AI Repnin and Prince I.Yu. Trubetskoy. The regiments of the Life Guards Preobrazhensky and Semyonovsky were not part of the divisions. In addition, Petr had at his disposal another 35 streltsykh and 47 soldier regiments.
To bring his elected regiments in the proper order in combat formation and appearance, Peter I from the fall of 1698 as a single uniform introduces a caftan of the "Hungarian pattern". The caftan was rather short, reaching to the knees and widening considerably downwards, forming several folds in the sides. Sleeves had "Polish" cuffs in the form of inverted valves. On his chest, the caftan had several horizontal buttonholes of silver cord fastened on the side to silver buttons. Also, the caftan was lined with a silver lace over all the seams, the board and the hem. Winter caftans were frayed. The headpiece was a hat of red cloth, trimmed with fur (kurpei, lamb). On their feet they wore high boots made of soft red leather. The elected regiments differed in the color of the caftans: in the Transfiguration, dark green, in the Semyonov, blue; In the Butyrsky and Lefortovo regiments - crimson.
The ammunition consisted of a leather belt sling with a copper buckle and a forked leather blade, into which sheathing sheaths were inserted. The bandage for the cartridge bag was made of yellow morocco, stitched along the edges, with a copper buckle, a harness and a tip. The cartridge bag or lidunka was made of black leather and had inside a wooden shoe with 20-24 nests for cartridges and a pocket for gun accessories - tin cans with oil, spare flints, rattles and wrappers. A leather sheath for a baguette and a hornpowder powder natruska were hung on the belt.
The armament of an ordinary soldier consisted of a musket or a fuse without a shoulder strap, with a wooden ramrod and an iron appliance. Baginet was a sharp-cutting blade with a wooden handle, inserted into the gun barrel. Baguettes in the Russian army were actively used approximately from 1694 to 1702. A sword with a copper or iron hilt and a wire-wrapped handle. Sheath of unblacked leather.
The fuseler of the elected soldier regiment performs the drill "Baginet to the top" according to the "Military Statute" of 1698. This charter was drawn up on the basis of the drill charters of the best armies in Europe and presented to the king by the Major of the Preobrazhensky Regiment, Adam Wade.