Questions and Answers;

My husband struggled with me for a long time, but he could not answer. Maybe someone will explain here... Why can’t you just write “Captain,” “Colonel,” and so on instead of all the stripes and stars on the pursuit? Or the abbreviations. Better to understand...

The IMHO. The differences did not appear today. The lower ranks in Tsarist Russia (I think, and in most armies of the time) were virtually illiterate. To tell a peasant about 10 variants of stars and stripes is much easier than to teach him to read. The army is a very hard-working structure, to try to change something established in it - the work of the Sisyphus.