Since 1732 Russian infantry had different staffs for peace & wartime. In the case of hostilities each company increased on 16 privates (160 per company). The full staff was 1 566 (1 410 in peacetime) men after Leonov [1]. Russian historian Maslovskiy wrote that it was 1 496 [3]. I believe, that at the beginning of WPS (August 1733) Russian regiments were of full strength, because the preparing for invasion in Poland began in spring 1733 & they had time to reinforce up to the full staff.

The staff of the Russian Field Infantry regiment.

(Ordinance of 1732)

Source: [1] page 255

Russian infantry regiments had own regimental artillery of 2 3-pdr cannons & 4 6-pdr mortars. It was served by crews from fusilier companies except for 2 Bombardiers & 4 Cannoniers (gunners) from Artillery Corps.

Uniform of the Russian Infantry didn�t change much during the reign of Empress Anna in comparison with Peter the Great ages. Most changes applied to the more strict regulation of the some uniform details.

Russian infantry wore dark-green coat with horizontal pockets. Red turn-down collar, round cuffs, lining & facing of the buttonholes. Buttons: 3 on each cuff & flap of the pocket, 2 on bodice, 8 on coat-breast. The coat skirts could be turned back & sewed. Since the end of the 1720-ths on the left shoulder of the coat appeared a colored lace. This was an initiative of regimental commanders for marking their soldiers because of Russian regiments didn�t have any regimental distinguishes till the 1760-ths & the color of the lace was chosen by colonels. The tint of coat could be various, from dark-green to the emerald, & this depended on the suppliers.

NCOs wore the same uniform as soldiers, but with narrow lace on the borders of collar & cuffs. Corporal had 1 lace, ensigns & fouriers � 2, sergeant � 3.

The uniform of the musicians were differed in small �wings� on the shoulder & embroidery. Till the 1734 they were decorated with the lace of the regimental arms color. In summer 1734 new uniform for musicians was adopted, but regiments in Poland continued to wear old coats. New uniform was cut after Prussian one & decorated with colored buttonholes (20) & tassels (28). Their color was chosen by colonels, most often it was red.

Long-sleeved vest was red with 18 small buttons. Color of cuffs & small turn-down collar was chosen random, but most often it was also red. In hot weather Russian infantry often wore only vest, without coat. In this situation their color changed from green-red to red & infantry didn�t differ from artillery.

Soldiers & NCOs wore red trousers, officers � dark-green. Lace-up boots were white & canvas.

Epancha (a kind of cloak) was red with red lining.

Neckcloth was white.

All stab-officers & ranks of the fusilier companies wore black tricorn trimmed with white lace & white rosette/cockade on the left side of tricorn. It played a role of Russian cockade.

Grenadiers wore the same uniform as Fusiliers except a headgear & ammunition. In 1731 a new Grenadiers cap was adopted in infantry regiments. It was worn without changes till 1756 & during SYW many grenadiers continued to wear caps of this pattern. This grenadier cap was a green cloth cap with two red flaps. The front flap was decorated with cooper plate with Russian or regimental arms, the rear � with cooper grenade. Stitches were white, the top of the cap was decorated white tassel. Officers cap was with gold lace & tassel.

Russian Infantry during the reign of Empress Anna used colors of 1731 pattern. New flags, adopted on October 28, 1731 partly repeated the previous pattern of 1727. Each infantry regiment received 4 colors, 2 in each battalion. One color was �white�, other 3 were �colored�.

"White" or "regimental" color was carried by the 1 battalion. It had white field with Russian eagle & cross of St. Andrew in the centre. On the eagles chest was regimental or state (if regiment didn�t have own arms) arms. Table of the regimental arms will be placed later. In the corners of the flag were red �flames�.

Other 3 colors were colored, decorated with with regimental or state arms in the centre. The combinations of field/�flames� were following:

• orange/green
• yellow/red
• blue/yellow
• azure/red
• green/red
• red/yellow

Left: "Colored" color of the Boutyrskiy Fusilier regiment 1731-42 

All three "colored" flags in regiment had the same combination of field/"flames".

Unfortunately, Wiskovatov gives only one example of the "colored" combination - for Boutyrskiy regiment, & this provokes questions about other regiments. Zviagintsev in his work about Russian colors and standards gives following table for individual regimental combinations:

As you can see, in this table Boutyrskiy is shown as green/red, while in Wiskovatov - red/yellow. Theoretically, the combination was not directed by the War Ministry & regimental commanders chose it themselves, so a combination could change in time. Zviagintsov is based on the Table by Bibikov, while Wiskovatov used State Archive and it's difficult to define who is correct.

Source:

1. Leonov O., Ulianov I., The Regular Infantry, Volume 1 1698-1700, Moscow 1995.
2. Manstein C., Notes about Russia (1727-44), Moscow, 1997.
3. Maslovskiy D., Attack of Danzig by FM count Minikh in 1734. Collection of relations & orders by count Minikh, Peterburg, 190?
4. Wiskovatov, Historical description of the Russian Military uniforms, Vol. II,