11 March 1834, Nikolai I approved the "Regulations on civilian uniforms"

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11 March 1834, Nikolai I approved the "Regulations on civilian uniforms" In the early years of the reign of Nicholas I, it turned out that there was no unification in the system of uniform sewing in various departments. In addition, officials did not always wear uniforms for them installed. In particular, in August 1828 of the year, the Russian emperor visited the Senate, where he found many civil servants mostly in colorful uniforms and “striped trousers”. Nikolai Pavlovich wrote a letter to the Prosecutor General, Prince DI Lobanov-Rostovsky, on this occasion, where he said that he wanted and required proper order everywhere, prudence and decency worthy of the Senate. The emperor ordered the officials, who put uniforms, to come to the Senate only in them, for which the chief prosecutors should have followed (L. Ye. Shepelev. Titles, uniforms, orders in the Russian Empire. M. 1991).

Back in April, 1828, the sovereign ordered to deliver samples of all forms of civilian government (apparently, uniforms were meant) to the First Division of the Imperial Chancellery. The first office of His Own Imperial Majesty's Office was engaged in the preparation of state decrees, orders and rescripts, led the control over their execution, the presentation of reports and petitions to the king.

It should be noted that the practice of wearing uniforms (uniforms) by civilian officials and noblemen dates back to the 1780s. It was explained not only by the need to externally distinguish civil servants, but also by the desire to limit the luxury of noble robes. At the beginning of the 19 century, departmental uniforms appeared in the empire of ministries. During this period, they were made in the French fashion: narrow, single-breasted, with a standing collar, with pocket flaps at the hips and a cut in the front below the belt.

In 1829, the own E.I.V. Office received the task of developing a draft “General Provision on Civilian Forms”. The assignment was executed only by May 1833, which was explained by the workload of the office in the affairs of the Russian-Turkish war 1828-1829 that ended. The manager of the in-house office, A. S. Taneyev, explained the reasons and goals of the reform with the need to establish uniformity. It was also said that “there are no decent differences in the degrees of positions, especially the highest ones,” and they are almost the same. Therefore, instead of private and incomplete provisions that existed before in some departments, one general provision was developed.

11 March 1834, Nikolai Pavlovich approved the Regulations on Civil Uniforms prepared by his own E. I. V. Office. At the same time, the emperor approved the “Description of Ladies' Dresses”, which concerned solemn events at the Imperial Court. Thus, in Russia, one of the first official clothing codes was approved, which was mandatory when visiting certain organizations, institutions and events.

The main theses of the new "Regulations" were as follows. The new law covered the officials of state institutions. As a rule, all institutions of each department in the center and in the field received uniform uniforms. The provincial uniforms of civil servants were abolished. The uniform of the French model was retained, but its cut has changed somewhat due to a clearer cutout in the front. In most cases, the previously established colors of uniforms and sewing patterns were preserved. From this point on, uniforms corresponded only to the rank of the position, and not rank. For the majority of departments, the 10-ryazryadnye division of posts was introduced, it corresponded to the same completeness of sewing on the uniform. This gradation was fixed in staff schedules.

Uniforms were dark green or dark blue, and red was assigned to the senators. Most of the departments received dark green uniforms. Dark blue uniforms were among the employees of the Ministry of Public Education, the Academy of Fine Arts, the mining department, the department of communications and public buildings, and the Department of Cultural Affairs of Foreign Confessions.

Only the Chairman of the State Council, the Chancellor of Russia and the Chancellor of the Imperial and Tsarist orders could wear the uniforms of the 1 class. The uniforms of the 1-th rank corresponded to the largest amount of sewing. Sewing was located on the collar, cuffs and pocket flaps, along the shoulders and back around the collar (this sewing was introduced for the first time), under the flaps (feather), along the sides, floors and folds in three rows (garlands), along the edges of the rear cut and above it (Kapik), but also at the seams of the back and sleeves. There was no sewing and a third garland on the uniforms of the 2 discharge. The uniforms of the 3 category were deprived of sewing around the collar and the second garland, and the “feather” was a simplified form. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had full and half sewing on the collar and cuffs of the uniforms.

On the uniforms of the 4 discharge, sewing was maintained only on the collar, cuffs and pocket flaps, and 5, only on the collar and cuffs. The uniforms of the 6 category had half-embroidered collar and cuffs. The uniforms of the 7 category received half-sewing on the collar and sewn edging on the cuffs, and the 8-i had the same, but without the edging on the cuffs. Sewn edging on the collar and cuffs had the uniforms of the 9-th category, and 10-th had only a edging on the collar.

Seven forms of clothing were introduced and cases when they were to be worn: formal, festive, ordinary, everyday, special, road and summer. In 1845, the “Schedule on which days in which form to be” came out. Uniform uniforms were usually indicated on agendas, where officials were invited to various events and meetings.

Part of the dress uniform was a triangular black hat with small silver tassels at the ends and a buttonhole with a small button. Officials of the 1-5 classes had a twisted buttonhole similar to the general's, other classes - from a smooth braid. The buttonhole blocked the cockade (it was considered an important element of the uniform, indicated the nationality) in the form of a rosette of three circles of moiré ribbon of black (in the center), orange and white colors. Somewhat later, the cloth cockade was replaced with a metal one. At the beginning, it was made in the form of an ellipse and secured on the band in the front, then it became round, and it was moved to the crown. In addition, an indispensable part of the uniform was a civilian sword with silver lanyard. It must also be said that the civilian uniform was considered incompatible with the presence of a beard and even a mustache. In 1837, an order was issued to all bosses to ensure that their subordinate beards and mustaches were not worn.

A retired government official could have kept his uniform if he served in the department for at least 10 years and his service did not cause any complaints.

Preparation of drawings was entrusted to Academician I. A. Ivanov, who was known for “his perspective views and landscapes”. Ivanov already had experience of similar work: in 1815, he performed the album Image of Changes that followed in the armament and attire of the Russian army from half of the 9th to the beginning of the 19th century. ” His new work was approved, and the artist received a considerable reward for those times - 3 thousand rubles. The originals of the drawings were sent to various departments, where they were to make copies of them, then they were transferred to the Senate for storage. New uniforms were to be made within one year, during this period it was allowed to wear old ones.
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  1. predator.3
    +4
    11 March 2013 09: 18
    Civilian uniforms, this is of course a good thing, but they must be different from the military uniform! No pagons, just buttonholes with a distinction mark and the color is different, otherwise we’ll tell you who the hell there is, a naval officer or a bailiff - the same black uniform and pagons with a blue edging, and the cops were given a black uniform, the Navy was smoking to the side, about the prosecutor’s silence, almost like the Air Force and so in all departments. stop

    here he is the "colonel-general" of the bailiff troops! wassat
    1. +1
      11 March 2013 10: 28
      predator.3,
      Not a state machine, but a herd of parrots. A military man cannot be distinguished from a bribe taker.
    2. Zorro1955
      -3
      11 March 2013 14: 11
      Now Colonel-Generals wear one large Marshall star.
      1. Hon
        +1
        11 March 2013 16: 30
        Quote: Zorro1955
        Now Colonel-Generals wear one large Marshall star.

        And then how many stars does an army general have?
        1. Zorro1955
          +1
          11 March 2013 16: 33
          Sorry was wrong. Army generals instead of four stars carry one large
          1. -1
            11 March 2013 18: 01
            Zorro1955,
            God, where are we going, soon the orders will be like in tsarist times, on the chest, so that you could see parrots per mile.
            They would still have to fold the crease on the pope, so that it would be immediately clear who she was.
            1. +1
              12 March 2013 09: 45
              With a chain - "brother".
              With the chain - chancellor.
              On the chain is Tarzan.
              With medals - rottweller.
              With the order "For Service ..." - United Russia.
              With Fingal - an oppositionist.
              With two fingals and an order - United Russia deserter.
          2. Nik one
            0
            12 March 2013 13: 46
            this was just done to unify civil and military insignia
    3. +1
      12 March 2013 09: 34
      Let some hens and camels peck and peck at me, but I would, by my decree, forbid everyone to wear a vest, except for those who walk in water and wash.
      I wear a mustache ever since I grew up. I should not be a civil servant.
      1. 0
        12 March 2013 11: 15
        shurup,
        In general, I work with a beard and a mustache, only according to the regime it is not supposed :).
  2. fweadcSZ
    0
    12 March 2013 00: 38
    It seems to be so bad, but no, we have to do worse. The authorities do not cease to amaze. This site just recently came across: http://search-russia.org/main.php?s=20177 where information about each of us has been posted publicly. I don’t know why to do this, but it personally scares me. Nevertheless, I somehow managed to delete my data, though I had to register, but no one could "dig up" anything on me.
  3. Nesvet Nezar
    0
    12 March 2013 09: 22
    Oh! It was good, but heaven ahead!
  4. 0
    12 March 2013 09: 27
    In fact, History underestimates the significance of Tsar Nicholas I.
    It is generally accepted that he was a tyrant and a retrograde.

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