Imperial Russian Forest Guard

Unusual. Any ideas on colour of the uniform?

Maybe!

Students of elementary forestry schools, 1892-1917.
Uniform regulations confirmed 30 November 1892.

Tunic (kaftan) - no buttons, closed by small hooks, military uniform pattern, gray cloth, with a standing rounded collar of green cloth, green cloth piping down the tunic frontand cuffs, stamped metal (silvered) oak leaves in the corners of the collar.
Pants - Short, for tall boots, of the same cloth as the tunic, without piping.
Overcoat (plashch) - dark-gray army cloth, to 5 inches below the knees, closed by small hooks, without collar tabs, with green piping on the fold-down collar, in the corners of the collar the same insignia as on the tunic collar.
Forage cap - Black cloth with a green band and green piping around the top, with a visor; on the crown a metal (silvered) badge of crossed oak leaves.
Working or classroom shirt - of gimnasterka pattern, of black guards cloths.
Belt - black lacquered leather, with an blackened iron buckle.
Boots - with long shafts to the knees, black, personnally procured.
Hood (bashlyk) - Camel-hair cloth, trimmed with worsted tape of the same color. [You can see the ends of the hood wrapped bandolier fashion around the torso of the figure on the left - M.C.]
For practical exercises in summer, the work shirt and pants are of unbleached cloth.
Source: Complete collection of laws of the Russian empire, 1892, No. 9088.

Below: Hornist, c. 1840.


Below: 1855. By regulation, the shako is the naval pattern.




In the 1860s the Forestry Guards were "demilitarized."



Badges for forestry guards had various organizational specifics in the writing.


"The forest must be protected!"

Holy mackerel, that's fantastic. Thank you very much for all the information.