Everyone knows that one of the greatest Catherine’s commanders, General Suvorov, was not very good at the arrival of Paul I. And this is not surprising .... After all, the new sovereign was so “strange” that he completely refused to look to the future. All of his consciousness was "infected" with Prussian parades from the time of Frederick the Great. In addition, he was known as a loud and arrogant ruler. The first unsuccessful decree was a change of military uniforms. Already under Potemkin in the late period of the reign of Catherine II, the Russian soldier became similar to the European.
That is, on the head a sown shako, topped with fur, wigs have already become very rare, whiskers have spread, and the form itself was comfortable and of high quality. There were not all these braids, make-up lips, gay accessories and other lewdness. But for some reason Pavel was impatient to reintroduce idiotic wigs with braids and grenadiers-miters. Moreover, he urged everyone to shave off buoys or beards, to powder again, to take care of themselves, to wear wigs and to dress up like muslin. One involuntarily recalls the words of one of the peasant elders in the notorious historical film - “I saw new army of the king Pyotr! Sho is this now ?! Men... in stockings!”. But for Pavel, Potemkin’s newest uniform was a reference to Catherine, whom he hated inside. Therefore, it took him a second time to get the old one back. The old, which has long gone out of fashion. Already, even the Prussian warriors switched to a shako and a completely modern uniform, and Pavel made the Russians flaunt in glittery-miters, with pigtails and wigs. Naturally, this reform caused discontent with Suvorov and his fighters. An interesting fact is that during his campaign against France, Suvorov even forbade any wigs and braids. During the Alpine crossing, his soldiers wore mostly non-statutory feed caps, more reminiscent of Phrygian caps with tassels. The general used the old Potemkin proverb. "The soldier's boudoir is like this: that he stood up, he was ready."
And this is why he didn’t work with Emperor Paul. Many enemies in every way reported on the emperor to Suvorov, but nevertheless, the general as he was and remained the most prominent of Russian commanders, so it didn’t just work to wipe him off the track. And after all the truth .... What is this indecency? Guys and wigs, stockings and braids, and even with powder and scarlet lips. By golly ... Marquis de Sade and then dressed up more modestly. Such an interesting historical fact can be made up about the military form of the times of Paul I. Perhaps the emperor paid for such tyranny and at the end of the government.
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