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Boris Charnota-Boiarskii (1898-1940)
Lot 33

Boris Charnota-Boiarskii (1898-1940)

A collection of 88 Russian regimental uniform cards

Closed4 June 2018

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GBP 10,000

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Boris Charnota-Boiarskii (1898-1940)
A collection of 88 Russian regimental uniform cards
each signed in Cyrillic ‘Drawn by B. Charnota-Boiarskii.’ (lower right), inscribed in Russian with the uniform details (lower centre) and dated between 1930-1935 (lower left)
ink and gouache, heightened with silver and gold, on paper; unframed
7 ½ x 5 3/8 in. (19.2 x 13.6 cm.) and slightly smaller
(88)

Specialist note

This unique and important group of large-scale uniform cards by Boris Ivanovich Charnota-Boiarskii depicts the uniforms worn by the Russian army during the reign of Nicholas II in minute detail.
Each card is an enlarged version of those published by Colonel Shenk in 1910 and 1911 in his book Tablitsi form Obmundirovaniya Russkoi Armii [Charts of the Regimental Uniforms of the Russian Army]. With these works, created between 1930 and 1935, Charnota-Boiarskii advanced the study of Russian uniformology as the plates reproduced in Shenk’s book were small, lacked detail and were poorly printed.