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Guards
GUARDS, life guards, elite, privileged military unit. The Russian Guards were established by Peter I in 1700, when the Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky regiments gained the title of life guards
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Narva Triumphal Arch
NARVA TRIUMPHAL ARCH, built in commemoration of the Patriotic War of 1812 on Narvskaya Square (today, Stachek Square) in 1827-34 (architect V.P. Stasov). The arch replaced the old wooden gate (1814, architect G. Quarenghi, sculptor I.I
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People's Militia of St. Petersburg (1805, 1812, 1854-55)
PEOPLE'S MILITIA (VOLUNTEER CORPS) OF ST. PETERSBURG, recruited from city residents, state peasants and serfs of St. Petersburg and the neighbouring governorates at the times of large-scale wars for reinforcing the regular army
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