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. Bryullov Boris Pavlovich
Dvortsovaya Square/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Глиноецкий Н. П. История русского генерального штаба: В 2 т. СПб., 1883-1894 1843