Ulanka - square headdress lancers, light cavalry soldiers, who in the XVI century. appeared in Lithuanian and Polish troops, and then in other European armies. In the Russian army Ulanka were red, but differ in that each regiment had its own band of color. The square shape of caps has been borrowed from the Tatars, and the name came from the Turkic word oɣlan (boy, boy, young man), then penetrated into Polish and German, as ulan (from the time of Frederick the Great), and then in Russian.
Ulanka
Ulanka - square headdress lancers, light cavalry soldiers, who in the XVI century. appeared in Lithuanian and Polish troops, and then in other European armies. In the Russian army Ulanka were red, but differ in that each regiment had its own band of color. The square shape of caps has been borrowed from the Tatars, ...