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The subject index / Dragoon Life Guards Regiment

Dragoon Life Guards Regiment


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DRAGOON LIFE GUARDS REGIMENT, Cavalry Guards Regiment, raised on 3.4.1814 in Versailles near Paris as a Horse Chasseur Regiment, on 30 April 1814 was designated the Horse Chasseur Life Guards Regiment and was granted the privileges of the New Guards. In 1825, March 19 – the date of the Russian Army’s entry into Paris in 1814 was established as the regiment's holiday. In 1833 it received the name of the Dragoon Life Guards Regiment. The regiment was quartered in Old Peterhof. The regiment took part in the Russo-Turkish Wars of 1828-29 and 1877-78, in quelling the Polish Insurrections of 1830-31 and 1863-63 (for distinguished performance was granted the privilege of the Old Guards). During WW I 1914-18 within the 2nd Guards Cavalry Division the Regiment was dispatched to the North-Western Front. Disbanded in early 1918.

References: Ковалевский М. А. Пятьдесят лет существования Лейб-гвардии Драгунского полка... Новгород, 1870; Кучевский И. М. Памятка лейб-драгуна,1814-1914. СПб., 1914.

A. N. Lukirsky

Bibliographies
Ковалевский М. А. Пятьдесят лет существования Лейб-гвардии Драгунского полка... Новгород, 1870
Кучевский И. М. Памятка лейб-драгуна,1814-1914. СПб., 1914



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