Photo. His Majesty's life guards cuirassier regiment, 2nd squadron.

Photo. His Majesty's life guards cuirassier regiment, 2nd squadron.
Tsarskoe Selo, 1910 Format 22.5 x 14.5 cm. The condition is satisfactory; minor loss on the lower edge; on the front side of the photo there are traces of glue, on the back there are traces of mounting the photo on a substrate and printing by the photo Studio of K. Bulla.

Original photos of the beginning of the 20th century from the collection of the KGB General. Years in the ownership of the Ark auction.

[His Majesty's life guards cuirassier regiment (Yellow or Tsarskoye Selo cuirassiers) is a selected life guards regiment of heavy cavalry of the Russian Imperial army.

Seniority of the regiment: for the army cavalry - from June 21, 1702, for the Young Guard - from 1813, for the Old Guard - from 1831. 

The regimental holiday is June 21, the day of the Holy Martyr Julian of Tarsus.

Chief of the regiment: 02.11.1894-04.03.1917-Emperor Nicholas II.

Regiment commander: 29.03.1908-08.06.1912-major General (since 1911 in his Majesty's Retinue) von wolf, Konstantin Mavrikievich.

Karl Karlovich Bulla (1855-1929)-portrait photographer and master of documentary photography, who went down in history as the "father of Russian photo reportage". In 1875, Karl Bulla opened his own photo Studio, which at the beginning of the XX century was located in the building of the Passage on Nevsky, and in 1908 he acquired a photo Studio on Nevsky, 54. Since 1897, Karl Bulla's photos were published in the mass and popular magazine "Niva". Since that time, his name has become known throughout the Russian Empire. After 1916, Karl Bulla passed his photography business to his sons, and settled on the island of Saaremaa, where he died in 1929.