CONTRIBUTIONS-Balzar- Russia1812
RUSSIA 1812
RUSSIA 1812
by Egbert Balzar
Late summer 1812,
somewhere in Russia on the way to Moscow ... after the Battle of Borodino ...
A troop of French "Red Uhlans" (2e régiment de chevau-légers lanciers de la Garde Impériale), stopped at the small, remote farm and took a short break to water the horses. The cavalrymen are just about to leave.
You are wearing your red uniform skirt (Kurtka) again after your boss, General Colbert, had received a "rebuke" from Napoleon personally: "He had paid good money for the red uniforms and he insisted on seeing that they were also worn "" During the Russian campaign, the cavalrymen had taken off their red uniform jackets.
The Russian Cossacks had fun, because of their conspicuousness, to hunt the "reds" as soon as they saw one. Hence the lancers preferred to wear their simpler, light blue work jacket. An old farmer's wife, just coming from the field, looks at the strangers with great suspicion. Meanwhile, her granddaughter feeds that dear "poultry".
Since I had planned for a long time to depict a small scene with the Guard Uhlans in Russia, I used the beautiful figures by Franznap Miniatures with corresponding minor modifications and changes to the uniforms.
