Russian Imperial tradition gave each adult member of the royal family an honorary colonelcy in a Russian Army regiment, complete with a parade uniform that they wore on state occasions. Grand Duchess Olga, the eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, held the colonelcy of the 3rd Elisavetgrad Hussars; her younger sister Grand Duchess Tatiana, the colonelcy of the 8th Voznesensk Uhlans. Both women trained as Red Cross nurses during the First World War and worked in military hospitals in St. Petersburg through 1916, assisting with surgery and tending the wounded. They were 22 and 21 years old when they were killed with the rest of the Imperial family at Yekaterinburg in July 1918. The figures depict them in life — in the parade dress of their respective regiments — at the height of court ceremonial.

This K&C set is a two-figure rendition of the two eldest Romanov sisters in the parade uniforms of their regiments: Olga (left) in the light-blue dolman of the Elisavetgrad Hussars with red gilt frogging and a long burgundy skirt, Tatiana (right) in the dark navy and gold of the Voznesensk Uhlans holding a regimental baton. Both wear the formal plumed shako or busby of their unit. The figures are unusual in any toy soldier line for being civilian women — even royal women — in military dress rather than fighting men, and they belong with K&C's Queen Victoria & Prince Albert Royal Wedding set as the European Royal pieces in the K&C TR series Breagans carries.

1/30 scale, matte-painted, two-figure set boxed. Catalog number TR004. As with the rest of the King & Country range, the painting captures period detail intended to read well in display.