Introduction
Barend and I hope in the next while to add to Pygmy Wars a number of
pages that allow wargamers to locate and paint units from the Russian
Civil War.
We will start with the Cossack hosts and non-Russian ethnic units.
Caucasian Dress
What many think of as the "Cossack" dress was in fact the traditional
style of the mountain peoples of the Caucasus.
Only two Cossack
hosts, the Kuban and the Terek, dressed this way.
However, these two hosts and the Caucasian "mountaineers"
themselves formed a considerable part of the White armies of southern
Russia, especially the early Volunteer Army, which was largely formed
in the Kuban.
Steppe Hosts
All other Cossack units wore a uniform basically similar to standard
Russian military dress.
Notes on Steppe Cossack
dress
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