Swedish colors taken at Lesnaya, 28 September 1708

# 1 Karelska Rytter, company standard
(drawing by D. Schorr)

Recent I found an article by Bolotina & Novoselov which includes a list of Swedish colours taken at Lesnaya. I compared them with data about colours from Hoglund’s book. Drawings are made by D. Schorr & used with his kind permission.

I don’t identify 3 units (## 15-17). Their names are given as in original text (see scan in Russian)

#	Regiment	Number	Description	Hoglund	Image
Reitars
1	Abo och Bjorneborgs (Lewenhaupt’s)	1	White embroidered with gold	(1)
		1	Red embroidered with gold	(1)
2	Karelska	1	Red embroidered with gold	Red	#1
Dragoons
3	Skogh	1	White with fringe	White (2)
		2	Light-blue with fringe	Blue (2)	# 2
4	Upplands Ståndsdragonregemente (Wannerstedt)	2	Light-blue with fringe	Blue (3)
5	Schreitefeld	1	Blue	Blue	# 3
6	Unknown	1	White with fringe
Infantry
7	Närke-Värmlands tremänningsregemente (Stahl or Stael von Holstein)	1	White
		4	Red	crimson red with the arms of Närke	# 4
8	Abo, Björneborgs och Nylands tremänningsregemeate (Wrangel)	4	Blue	Blue with arms of lans (4)
9	Upplands tremänningsregemente (Lewenhaupt)	1	White	white with the arms of Uppland	# 5
		4	Red	red
10	De la Gardie	1	White	White
		3	Cornflower blue with yellow	Quartered blue and yellow with decorations in gold (5)	# 6
11	Sacken	1	White	ND (6)
		3	Blue	ND (6)
12	Björneborgs (Stackelberg)	1	White	White
		3	Yellow	blue and yellow (7)
13	Hälsinge (Knorring)	4	White with black	White with black (8)
		1	Red with light-blue
14	Osterbottens (Fittinghof)	1	Light-blue	Blue (9)
15	“Vesterbotten” (unidentified)	1	Light-blue
16	“Aplendine” (unidentified)	1	Yellow with light-blue	(10)
17	“Buchwald” (unidentified)	3	Red with yellow
18	Unknown	1	White with cross
19	Unknown	1	White with Swedish coat of arms
		49

# 2 Skogh Dragoons, company standard
(drawing by D. Schorr)

(1)    Hoglund writes that “Standards m/1686 were never issued to the regiment. Through Poltava the regiment carried those issued in 1684 (reconstruction) — feuille-morte field with lion, numbers, wreath, monogram and crown in gold, and palm branches in silver”. The regiment lost at least one company colour of m/1684 at Erestfer. Evidently after 1701 it got a new set of colours. By the way, Abo Infantry had red colors.

# 3 Schreitefelt Dragoons, company color
(drawing by D. Schoor)

(2)    Hoglund mentions that “Colors were identical with d'Albedyhl/Schreiterfelt” (unit # 5)

(3)    Hoglund mentions that “Company colors blue with blue fringe. The arms of Uppland, Skaraborg, Södermanland, Närke, Västmanland and Elfsborg”. Skaraborg & Sedermanlands companies lost their colours at Erestfer.

(4)    The previous set was red & was lost at Dorpat in 1704. The new one was blue

(5)    Hoglund mentions that “the original color suite [lost at Hummelshoff where the troop was ruined] was perhaps quartered blue and yellow with crown and monogram”. Evidently the new set made 1702-03 was the same.

(6)    Hoglund mentions that “Colors unknown, but possibly like those of C.R. Stackelbergs bataljon [blue]”.

(7)    Hoglund mentions that Stackelberg’s regiment in 1708 had company colours of m/1686. Their upper half was blue, inner – yellow. The colour was decorated with Bjorneborg lans arms. Four such colours were lost at Poltava.  

(8)    Colours m/1686 were lost at the capitulation of Mittau in 1705. Evidently the new colours made in 1705-06 were the same.

# 4 Narke-Varmland Tremmaning Foot
company color
(drawing by D. Schoor)

(9)    Osterbottens: Hoglund mentions that “colors issued 1682 and 1703”. The illustration presents m/1686 color.

(10)  Maybe Smålands tremänningsregemente?

Uppland Tremmaning Foot, colonel color
(drawing by D. Schorr)

De la Gardie Foot, company color
(drawing by D. Schoor)

Список шведских знамен, захваченных под Лесной 28 сентября 1708
Ист: Болотина Н.Ю.; Новоселов В.Р. «Взятое в баталии свейское ружье, и знамена, и литавры, и иные всякие воинские припасы принимать в палату Оружейную»: Документы РГАДА о трофеях, взятых у шведов после Полтавской виктории 27 июня 1709г. / Публ. подг. Н.Ю. Болотина, В.Р. Новоселов // Исторический архив. 2009. № 3. С. 14-35