According to Boris and John Mollo's Uniforms of the Imperial Russian Army the uniform changes 0f 1913 meant that artillerymen wore the same greenish Khaki as the rest of the army - even when in parade uniform when a black plasteron with red piping was worn. If the colour sketch is accurate the breeches would be a slightly darker shade than the jacket.
Most sources agree with Cent's description above, but several contributors on the HäT site have painted officers' breeches a sort of royal blue.
According to Pierre of that ilk, some officers of all arms continued to wear the peacetime cap and breeches as late as 1916. The breeches were blue with red piping. How widespread this practice was I can't be certain. There is a b/w photo of the crew of a 1909 howitzer wearing trousers that are much darker than the tunic, but no date is given.
These pics from the Osprey book show several men wearing blue. And another bloody Madsen.
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In 1904 the idea of summer (white jacket) and winter uniforms was dropped and in campaign the jacket was khaki and the trousers green (for infantry) and light blue (for cavalry) Not sure hove artillery fitted into this.
I've mentioned before that there was a book in my local library for years called something like Uniforms of the Great Powers, describing the state of play pre-WWI. I remember it had a photo of Japanese troops on the front. It disappeared a while ago, and they can't trace it and nor can I find anything about it.
Anyhoo, this is from a Russian reenactor site: (The 1907 uniform) replaced the old uniform of a white tunic and dark green trousers although these items were still in use by many militia units at the outbreak of the war
That's for infantry. The Funckens aren't much help. From what Centurion says, it sounds as if the various arms were differentiated by colour. Maybe the artillery wore blue. Could there be a clue in Russo-Jap uniforms? Why not ask on the HäT Forum where the painters got their info?
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The White tunic (and green trousers) was the Summer infantry uniform discontinued officially in 1904. (mainly because they had been easily spotted by Japanese machine gunners) I guess that the unused summer uniforms got handed down to mililitia units
These links should go to the Osprey book on the RJW. Perplexingly, there is no mention of blue trousers, only the dark green of the 1881 uniform, which was so dark as to appear black. There's a lot of info about improvisation to attempt some camouflage, but nothing specific about artillery uniforms.
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Uniforms of the Imperial Russian Army definitely shows blue trousers for the cavalry and green for the infantry. The book was written by Boris Mollo and illustrated by John Mollo and is primarily based on research by their father Eugene (who edited) a life long researcher into the Imperial Russian Army
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