During his coronation, which took place on 27th May (O.S. 14th) May, 1896, Emperor Nicholas II appeared before his subjects in the uniform of a colonel of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment.
The Tsar’s Coronation uniform has been preserved to the present, and is on display in the Armoury Museum of the Moscow Kremlin.
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