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Guards Corps Staff

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GUARDS CORPS STAFF, the organisational authority of the guards. Set up in the late 18th century as the Chancellery of the Guards Commander, from 1817, known as the Guards General Staff, and from 1828 as the Staff of the Guards Commander. From 1843 was accomodated in a specially constructed building at 2 Palace Square (1837-43, architect A.P. Bryullov). Disbanded in 1918. At present the building of the Staff of the Guards Commander houses the Department and Staff for the Air Defence Troops of the Leningrad Military District.

G. V. Kalashnikov.

Persons

Bryullov Boris Pavlovich

Addresses

Dvortsovaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2

Bibliographies

Глиноецкий Н. П. История русского генерального штаба: В 2 т. СПб., 1883-1894

Chronograph

1843

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Bilding of the Life Guards corps.

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Benckendorff A. K. (1781-1844), statesman BENCKENDORFF (v. Benckendorff) Alexander Khristoforovich (Konstantin Alexander Karl Wilhelm Christopher) (1781, St. Petersburg 1844), Count (1832), statesman and military officer, Infantry General, Cavalry General (1829), honorary member of the St

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Bryullov A.P. (1798-1877), architect BRYULLOV Alexander Pavlovich (1798 - 1877, St. Petersburg), architect, aquarellist, architecture theorist, specialist in construction technique. Brother of K. P. Bryullov

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Garrison GARRISON of St.Petersburg, troops, stationed in St. Petersburg, under the joint command and assigned with functions of protecting and defending the city. The term garrison also implies a military administrative structure

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Millionnaya Street MILLIONNAYA STREET [until 1738 - German settlement, until the middle of the 18th century - Bolshaya Nemetskaya Street, in the 1740-1800s - Bolshaya Millionnaya Street, in 1918-91 - Khalturina Street, after worker-revolutionary S.N

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Palace Grenadiers Company PALACE GRENADIERS COMPANY, a special honour military unit, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Imperial Court. The company was formed in 1827 and staffed with enlisted guards who had distinguished themselves in the course of the Patriotic

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Palace Square PALACE SQUARE, St. Petersburg's main square, the traditional location for city-wide festivities, and is part of the central square system of the Neva River's left bank

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