Officer Assemblies

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OFFICER ASSEMBLIES, administrative associations of officers serving in the same regiment, including the quarters. Administrative committees of officer associations were established in the 1870s and engaged in administrative issues with capital turnover, comprised of obligatory contributions of its members, which provided for food, officers' recreational activities, and holiday celebrations and ceremonies. The buildings of officer assemblies (associations) were constructed or re-built from the barracks; the construction was paid for by the internal funds or contributions of the regiments' commanders. The buildings of officer assemblies housed officer clubs, regimental chancellories and a number of services and from the 1880s housed regimental museums. The Officer Assembly of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment was located in what is now known as the Officer House (20 Liteiny Avenue), Semenovsky Regiment Museum was located at 48 Zagorodny Avenue, Izmaylovsky Regiment Museum at what now is 26, First Krasnoarmeyskaya Street.

References: Снигирев С. Ф. Деятельность офицерского собрания - проявление традиций общественных институтов Вооруженных Сил // Санкт-Петербург и Вооруженные Силы: Науч.-практ. конф.: Сб. ст. СПб., 1995. Вып. 2. С. 29-35; Макаров Ю. В. Моя служба в старой гвардии, 1905-1917: Мирное время и война. СПб., 2001. С. 63-74.

G. V. Kalashnikov. 1st Krasnoarmeiskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 26
Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 20
Zagorodny Avenue/Saint Petersburg, city, house 48
Макаров Ю. В. Моя служба в старой гвардии, 1905-1917: Мирное время и война. СПб., 2001 Officers' House