Russian irregular light horse. Officer 1 and cavalryman of the Don Cossacks, Kalmyk 3, Ural Cossack 4, Black Sea Cossack lancers 5, and Albanian infantryman with musket and pistols 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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