Pre WW1 Military uniform

This photograph was taken c1900-1910. Can anybody please offer an opinion on the uniform? Is it Polish Or is it Russian?

 

Hi,

I don’t know the answer but it can’t be a Polish uniform as the modern Polish nation wasn’t created until 1919 Treaty of Versailles if I remember correctly.

EDIT TO ADD INFO FROM MY EXTENSIVE PERSONAL LIBRARY

In 1795, Poland's territory was completely partitioned among the Kingdom of Prussia, the Russian Empire, and Austria. Poland regained its independence as the Second Polish Republic in 1918 after World War I, but lost it in World War II through occupation by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Steve

 

As the photo was taken just a few years before WW1, a good place to post it is also:
Great War Forum
There are plenty of uniform experts there.

 

He is wearing a Feldmutze (Field cap) which says German but the Imperial army had a cockade not a badge. However Willamene Germany loved uniforms and for example many social clubs wore military style uniforms (for example drinking clubs student societies - often the same thing - choirs even).Ethnic German communities in the East (like those in cities like Lodz) were also prone to this

 

Thanks to everyone for responding. The reason for my request is that the man in the picture came from a Polish family but lived deep in Russian territory. He had 12 children and 11 of them were sons, one of whom fought for Poland and later the Polish forces in exile in Britain. Although they were all of military age I can find no record of them in the military. After being born and raised in Russia, they may have fought in the Russian forces.

 

From 1907 Russian soldiers wore a peaked cap

 

Pre 1907

 

And I think those guys are Russian naval infantry anyway

 

1910 Feldmutze
Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 63 - Feldmütze

 

Yep look at the dates

 

How about Russian uniforms 1910 - 1911?? as a new project

TD