while i agree with you that while both of hoglunds books are exellent. his information on the greatnorthern war russian cavalry is not the best and dosn't at time correspont with other sources, condry and kostam .while even his information on the swedes at time can be confusing regarding certain regiments.Tacitus wrote:The question mark and grey background in my site is my way to tell that only the coat colour is known and that the colour of the facings is speculative.
I used Höglund's book on the Russian uniforms (vol. 2 in the trilogy) as source. He actually does not mention any horse grenadiers uniforms in volyme one. The one Kropotov regiment in that volyme is an ordinary dragoon regiment (Troitski), oddly enough described as having grenadier caps which may be a result of confusion with the real Kropotov horse grenadiers. In the second volyme (which is more comprehensive and contradict facts given in the first volyme) he mention not one but two Kropotov regiments of horse grenadiers. The uniform of the first one (A. Kropotov) is unknown and the other (G. Kropotov) is described simply as: green coat and green grenadier cap.
Angus Konstam only mention one Kropotov regiment. The other one seems to be called Roshnev. I have no idea which of Höglund's Kropotov regiment correspond with Konstam's Kropotov regiment. On my site I have just made a wild guess that G. Kropotov is identical with Konstam's horse grenadiers. Unfortuneatly Konstam's book is the only one I have who give individual names for the horse grenadier regiments in the Poltava order of battle. My main source only writes "a horse grenadier regiment" in each place in the OOB.
All the things I have written above is mentioned in the Swedish text in my site.
I would generally rely more on Höglund than Konstam since the Russians I have come in contact with do not hold Konstam's books in high esteem. They criticise him for having used outdated and unreliable sources. Add to this that his book show clear signs of being written in haste with many mistakes as a result (there are quite a few regiments who are missing in his OOB:s for example).
Höglund collaborated with the Russian historian Alexander Bespalov when he wrote the second volyme. But even Bespalov may be unreliable. This blog have some very worrying information about his "research":
http://rusmilhist.blogspot.se/2012/04/n ... -been.html
I am not familiar with Condry and do not know what he has written, but if his information is consistent with Konstam then it may be becaues he has used the same sources as him. And, how am I going to put this gently, the Russians I have come in contact with does really not have any nice things to say about Konstam's books....turrabear wrote:while i agree with you that while both of hoglunds books are exellent. his information on the greatnorthern war russian cavalry is not the best and dosn't at time correspont with other sources, condry and kostam .while even his information on the swedes at time can be confusing regarding certain regiments.
Could you give us a link to your site please?Tacitus wrote:The question mark and grey background in my site is my way to tell that only the coat colour is known and that the colour of the facings is speculative.
It's a pity you hadn't posted earlier, I was gaming with Angus last night and could have asked him where and what sources he used. He's off killing 1866 Austrians at the weekend so I'll try and ask him the next time I see him.Tacitus wrote:I just looked in Konstam's book and both Condry and Zweguintzow are listed as sources in his book. They may in fact be the very same outdated and unreliable sources the Russians criticised Konstam for using.
thanks for that i wasn't aware of this.Tacitus wrote:I am not familiar with Condry and do not know what he has written, but if his information is consistent with Konstam then it may be becaues he has used the same sources as him. And, how am I going to put this gently, the Russians I have come in contact with does really not have any nice things to say about Konstam's books....turrabear wrote:while i agree with you that while both of hoglunds books are exellent. his information on the greatnorthern war russian cavalry is not the best and dosn't at time correspont with other sources, condry and kostam .while even his information on the swedes at time can be confusing regarding certain regiments.
It's OK I've just realised what your site is and already have it bookmarked.obriendavid wrote:Could you give us a link to your site please?Tacitus wrote:The question mark and grey background in my site is my way to tell that only the coat colour is known and that the colour of the facings is speculative.
Cheers
Dave
In your post you can also find the reason why I have avoided until now to say that Konstam's books are not good. This is a forum where Angus Konstam himself has posted in. And him being a Scottish wargamer and this a forum filled with other Scottish wargamers... Well, it is not really enjoyable to publicly criticise a guy in front of his friends. This is especially true if you only have shallow knowledge about the subject you are criticising him for having shortcomings in.obriendavid wrote:It's a pity you hadn't posted earlier, I was gaming with Angus last night and could have asked him where and what sources he used. He's off killing 1866 Austrians at the weekend so I'll try and ask him the next time I see him.