"Sergey Markov's Regiment was entirely made up of Officers (hence the name - "Officer's General Markov's 1st Regiment"), majority of which have served in the Russo-Japanese War as well as the Great War. Markov himself was the part of the "Iron Division" under general Denikin in the Eastern Front of Great War and has shared the prison cell in the famous "Bykhov's Sitting" where the idea of White Army came into existence. Markov's troops were the first to enter the battle during the famous first Ice March and were the main body of the White Guards army during that period. The uniform is symbolic of their demeanor - all black with white cap crown and white shoulder straps with silver or gold edging depending on the wearer's rank before the war and his relation to aristocracy. The black colour symbolised readiness to die for Russia, the Adam's Head, sometimes attached to the caps, was related to the same concept. White is the salvation of the soul and Russia, that will inevitably happen through sacrifice of war. The symbolism of the regiment's colours had inflicted a deep psychological wound on Red Army, so much so, that in all movies after the Civil War the most hated and most popular cinematographic enemies were wearing this uniform. Pshychological pressure that was inflicted on the enemy when the regiment marched forward in parade uniform and in echelons, bayonets reflecting the sun's rays, military march played by the band behind the ranks, not a single shot or a single word until the melee clash with the Red lines ahead, against vastly superior numbers of the enemy troops, has always broken even the sturdiest Red defenses. As opposed to other White Regiments, Markov's First was made up almost entirely of fatalists - even on the march the troops hardly spoke to each other and to others believeing that their actions speak for themselves. During the Crimean catastrophe, the regiment (by that time, a division of the "First Rifle Corps") has lost four out of five companies inflicting catastrophic casualties on the enemy ranks whilst securing enough time for the evactuation of the civilians."