Tsarist Secret Police(okhrana) and Special Corps of Gendarmes info and uniforms

[drownte]

Does anyone have any information and pictures of members of either organization? You here a lot about the Bolshevik Cheka but virtually nothing about their tsarist counterparts. Any help would be awesome.

[cuprum]

Security forces were ordinary police and the gendarmerie (paramilitary police).
In addition, to stop the riots used the Cossacks and army units.



Policeman Yenisei province. 1883;
The mayor of the capital city in 1912;
The chief officer of police. 1908



The policeman in coat. 1911;
Private horsepolicing. 1914;
The chief officer of the river police. 1914



Staff officer Guard Gendarmes Field Squadron. 1914;
The chief officer of the gendarmerie in field uniform. 1916;
Palace chief of police. 1916

[joroas]

..and that's why I love this site! 

[drownte]

Wow! Thank you sir!

[cuprum]

There will be questions about Russia - please, try to help 
You can look at my blog - I'm there, spread the digitized articles on uniforms of Russian magazines. But I have to use Google translator.