AUSTERLITZ 1805 THE MALAROSSIJA REGIMENT - 2nd FUSILIER BATTALION

One of the manin problem with Russian uniforms of the battle of Austerlitz is to understand if the Grenadiers Regiment wore the miter or not; I discussed this topic in the Miniature Page a lot of times; now I am facing another big issue: did the Fusilier Battalions of the Grenadiers Regiment wear the "Hessian" mitre (i.e. shorter) or not?

I was painting the Malarossija Regiment papersoldiers; at the very beginning I was quite distracted and I considered it a normal infantry unit, instead of a Grenadier Regiment. Therefore I started to paint and trim papersoldiers with normal shako.

When I realised it was a Grenadier Regiment I decided to remake the papersoldier with the "Hssian" mitre; I will consider that one (out of 2) Fusilier Battalions of this Regiment alreadt started to switch their cap from Hessian mitre to shako, so making a mixture of both headwears in the same unit (I could not thorw away all the work I already did.

In the above picture you can see the mixing of the 2 headwears.

The Malarossija unit is entering the village of Pratze in the morning of the battle

Here picture above the vision with the light

Here above you can distinguish them quite clearly.