Uniforms and Fates

Visitors to the museum will be presented exhibits related to the life and work of officers of the Russian, Soviet army.

A special place in the exposition will be occupied by the caftan (uniform) of the highest command staff of the General Staff of the Red Army of 1920, owned by Vladimir Nikolaevich Egoriev (1869-1948). After graduating from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff in 1901, he held command positions during the First World War, in 1917 he voluntarily entered the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA), commanded the front in the Civil, and then served in the General Staff of the Red Army. A specially designed uniform for the “Red General Staff” was approved in August-September 1920 and was canceled already in 1922. The light-green caftan with a turn-down velvet collar decorated with a gold soutache worn by Egoriev is one of two known surviving specimens (the second is in a private collection).

The exhibition also will feature a tunic of 1943, which belonged to the first cavalier of the Order of Suvorov, tank lieutenant general Vasily Mikhailovich Badanov (1895-1971). After graduating from a teacher’s seminary, he was drafted in 1915 into the ranks of the Imperial Army and sent to the Chuguev Military School, and then to the South-Western Front with the rank of lieutenant. In 1919 he joined the ranks of the Red Army, fought on the Eastern and Western Front. After the end of the Civil War, he served as commander of the regiment and division as part of the troops of the Cheka and the OGPU. During the Great Patriotic War he commanded tank formations and was awarded the Order of Suvorov II degree No. 1 for successful actions during the Middle Don offensive operation.

Maximilian-Robert-Wilhelm Gotgardovich Nebo (1881-1967), descended from a family of honorary citizens of St. Petersburg province, wore a set of uniforms for the head captain of the 3rd Elisavetgrad Hussar Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of the 1907 model regiment. After graduating from the Nikolaev Cavalry School in 1902, he participated in the Russo-Japanese and World War I, and had numerous awards. 1917 forever divorced him on opposite sides of the front with two other heroes of the exhibition. After 1920, having accepted Finnish citizenship, Heaven settled in Helsinki, where he lived the rest of his life.

In addition to uniforms at the exhibition, it will be possible to see works of painting and graphics, weapons and numismatics.