Sapper Life Guards Battalion

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SAPPER LIFE GUARDS BATTALION, engineer guards sub-division, formed in 1812 of officers and low ranks of engineer troops, excelled in the Patriotic War of 1812. Participated in the wars with France in 1813-14, Russo-Turkish wars of 1828-29 and 1877-78, and WW I of 1914-18. From 1814, quartered in St. Petersburg, in the area east from Liteiny Avenue, from the middle of the 19th century, in barracks at 25-29 Kirochnaya Street). The Battalion chapel was the SS. Kosma & Damian Church (28a Kirochnaya Street; 1876-79, architect M.E. Messmacher, destroyed in the late 1940s). In 1899 a monument to field engineers was unveiled in front of the church, transported from the Peterhof camp (not preserved). In 1915 the Sapper battalion was deployed as a regiment. Disbanded in February 1918. The Sapper battalion gave its name to the Saperny Lane.

References: Габаев Г. С. История Лейб-гвардии саперного баталиона. СПб., 1912. Ч. 1; Его же. Сто лет службы гвардейских сапер: Крат. ист. очерк. СПб., 1912.

G. V. Kalashnikov. Messmacher Maximilian Egorovich
Kirochnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 29
Kirochnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 25
Kirochnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 28, litera л. А
Kirochnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 27
Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city
Saperny Lane/Saint Petersburg, city
Габаев Г. С. История Лейб-гвардии саперного баталиона. СПб., 1912
Габаев Г. С. Сто лет службы гвардейских сапер: Крат. ист. очерк. СПб., 1912