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Dragoon Life Guards Regiment
Dragoon Life Guards Regiment
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Army. Navy/Garrison
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
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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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Bestuzhev A.A. (1797-1837), writer, critic, decembrist
BESTUZHEV (pen name Marlinsky) Alexander Alexanderovich (1797, St. Petersburg - 1837), writer, critic, decembrist, staff-captain (1825). Trained at the Mining Cadet Corps but never graduated (1810-15)
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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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Military Churches (entry)
MILITARY CHURCHES, churches attached to military units, emerged parallelly with the foundation of the city, set up as field churches in regimental settlements - garrison, infantry and guards quarters
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Petrodvorets, town
PETRODVORETS (until 1944 Peterhof), a town, centre of the Petrodvoretsky District, 28 kilometres southwest of Saint Petersburg; a harbour on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland; name of a railway station (Novy Peterhof)
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Uhlan Life-Guards Regiment
UHLAN LIFE GUARDS REGIMENT, cavalry guards regiment. Its origin goes back to the Odessa Hussar Regiment, formed in 1803, which served the basis of the Uhlan Regiment of His Highness which was formed the same year
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