Chasseur Life Guards Regiment

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CHASSEUR LIFE GUARDS REGIMENT, infantry guards regiment. Formed in 1796 as a battalion, in 1806 deployed into a regiment. Participated in the Napoleonic Wars of 1805, 1806-07, 1812-14, wars with Turkey 1828-29, 1877-78, in suppressing of the Polish insurrection of 1830-31, in WW I 1914-18. Until 1817 quartered in the Old-Chasseur Barracks (5 Zvenigorodskaya Street), afterwards - in a specially constructed group of buildings at 14-18 Ruzovskaya Street (architect A.E. Schubert, 1816-17). St. Miron's Church served as a regimental chapel. In the early 1918 the regiment was disbanded.

References: История лейб-гвардии Егерского полка за сто лет, 1796-1896. СПб., 1896; Императорская гвардия: Справ. книжка Имп. гл. квартиры. 2-е изд., испр. и доп. СПб., 1910; Зайончковский А. М. Лейб-егеря в Отечественную войну 1812 г. СПб., 1912.

G. V. Kalashnikov. Shtaubert Alexander Egorovich
Ruzovskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 18
Ruzovskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 16
Ruzovskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 14
Zvenigorodskaya Street/Saint Petersburg, city, house 5
Императорская гвардия: Справ. книжка Имп. гл. квартиры. 2-е изд., испр. и доп. СПб., 1910
Зайончковский А. М. Лейб-егеря в Отечественную войну 1812 г. СПб., 1912
История лейб-гвардии Егерского полка за сто лет, 1796-1896. СПб., 1896 St. Myron's Church