Freak Soldiers.
Visitors to Russia me no longer regaled with the sight of freak regiments. When Frederick Leveson-Gower went to Moscow in 1851) for the coronation of Alexander IL, he noticed “opposite our house, as the procession passed, a regiment called Paulovski, all the men having turned up noses, and therefore resembling him. It seems it was the fashion here to compose regiments of men all having the same features. The late Emperor told recruits off according to their looks. There is one regiment of men all marked with the small pox. This Paulovski regiment did a thing which amused me. Just before the cortege came up they all blew their noses at the word of command. This was in order that none of them might sneeze when the Emperor passed, as their doing 80 would bring him bad luck.” > , •-*•
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 2
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140Freak Soldiers. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 2
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