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All the president’s horses
Published: 20 March, 2010, 21:22
Edited: 22 March, 2010, 15:32
For the first time, Russia's renowned presidential cavalry escort of honor is performing outside the Kremlin. The show is taking place at an exhibition hall in one of Moscow parks.
Among the stunts on display are standing on a riding horse, leaping from horse to horse, mounting and dismounting a horse in full gallop, riding a horse upside down and hanging down on its side.
The highlight of the performance is going to be the so-called “pyramid,” a stunt displaying riders standing on the back of horses and leaping onto each other’s shoulders.
All the riders are wearing exact replicas of the costumes of Cossacks from the 18th century.
The presidential cavalry includes two squadrons of Cossacks. Among other requirements, a successful applicant to these squadrons must be tall, strong, have a distinctly Slavic appearance and be a fully registered Cossack.
Twice a year 25 young men come to Moscow from the Kuban region in the south of Russia to join the special cavalry.
The cavalry regiment was first formed in 1962 especially to take part in films. The first picture in which the regiment appeared was the film adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel “War and Peace.”
Since then the cavalry has appeared in many films and was financially supported by Moscow’s film industry up through the 1990s. Because of financial difficulties the size of the regiment was significantly decreased, but it didn’t disappear completely. In 2002 it was turned into a special cavalry escort within the presidential regiment.
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I do not think that unity of the country is an issue here. Historic accuracy is more important when re-creating a military unit from the past. Political correctness is a disease that afflicts the USA so bad that when a group of Americans trying to depict an antebellum plantation life of 1850, at an Historic site they are forced ( by the US Govt.) to hire black Americans as plantation owners and WHITES as the slaves... LOL!! Ridiculous! What's next, Czar Nicholas portrayed in a film by a black man from Africa and his wife a Mayan from Central America?
N.G.: "Political correctness is a disease that afflicts the USA" PC is a disease that the American people are too afraid to eradicate.