Here is a translation of tacicus from Swedish into English, with the help of goggle ..
http://www.tacitus.nu/karoliner/slag/Narva/ryssar.htm
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Russian uniforms in the Battle of Narva
Peter the Great has been honored for the following Western models to create the modern Russian army. At the time of the Battle of Narva had still an Oriental look. Western uniforms began not be awarded until the 1702nd The first years of the war was because the Russian army still dressed in traditional kaftans of the Hungarian average. An idea of how this early Russian Army looked at the battle of Narva is provided on this page. Unfortunately I have neither uniform data or even the names of the cavalry regiments that participated in the battle. For the infantry, there is a uniform data in Lars-Eric Hoglund's book "The Great Northern War 1700-1721, III" and the General Staff's "Charles XII on the battlefield," there is a statement of the Russian regiments that participated in the battle.
I have in good faith attempted to identify the regiments General Staff Administration cites with those described in Höglund's book. With the exception of the two gardesregementena I have with green text, set the name of the regiments, in Hoglund's book, and if such absence, they are not included in his book. Höglund mentions the other hand, several regiments of participants in the battle of Narva, which is not in the General Staff's statement. These are reported at the bottom of the page. One big question is also about Gordon's regiment under General Staff Office should have fought in the left wing (and been the only one with that name). According to Hoglund, there were but two regiments, led by Gordon at the time of Narva (Butyrska and Astrachanska) and both have participated in the battle. I have chosen to illustrate this mysterious Gordon's regiment with Butyrskas red caftan. Astrachanskas uniforms at this time is unknown, but in 1711 they had green coats with red spreads
There are very few data on the Russian uniforms at the time of the Battle of Narva and they usually only mention the color of the cassock engines. In cases failing altogether, I have chosen to illustrate them with the same colors as their western uniforms had. With few exceptions seem namely regiments have kept the old colors when they exchanged the cassock are the coats. But anyway, these highly speculative uniforms have a gray background.
The color of the trees are located at caftan keys are in all cases guesswork on my part. Among the known streltseruniformer Höglund mentions that there is only red or black cords. I have therefore chosen red braid if the regiments western uniforms had red leads and black cords if unresolved was a different color. Even the colors of boots in all cases is unknown. By judging from the known Strela ster uniforms seem to yellow have been the dominant color. Red and green boots also occurred but only in combination with yellow or orange kaftans.
Among Strela States and apparently even among the Western regiments were red hats the dominant color (raspberry red or cherry red). However, dark gray, dark green, green and brown caps was also used. No correlation between the color of the hat and caftan was not, not even between the two shades of red (12th Moscow Strela States had, for example, raspberry hat but cherry red caftan).
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The Great Northern War 1700 - 1721, II.
Sweden's allies and enemies. Colours and uniforms.
By Lars-Eric Hoglund, Ake Sallnäs and Alexander Vespalov .....
http://www.acedia.se/engbok.htm
