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Grenadiers Life Guards Regiment
Grenadiers Life Guards Regiment
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Army. Navy/Garrison
GRENADIERS LIFE GUARDS REGIMENT, Guards Infantry Regiment, formed in 1756, from 1775 – Life Grenadier Regiment, in 1813 designated Grenadiers Life Guards Regiment and assigned to the New Guards, in 1831 -assigned to the Old Guards. Participated in the Seven Year War of 1756-63, Russo-Turkish wars of 1768-74, 1828-29, 1877-78, Russo-Swedish wars of 1788-90 and 1808-09, Napoleonic Wars of 1805, 1806-07, 1812-14, WW I 1914-18. From 1790 stationed in St. Petersburg in Yamskaya Sloboda Settlement, from 1800 - on the Fontanka River Embankment by the Semenovsky Bridge, from 1811 - in the so-called Petrovsky (Peter's) (Grenadier) barracks (44 Petrogradskaya Embankment, 2 Karpovka River Embankment). Disbanded in early 1918. Designations of the Grenadier Bridge and Grenadersky Street originate from the name of the regiment. Reference: Судравский В. К. История Лейб-гвардии гренадерского полка, 1756-1906. СПб., 1906. G. V. Kalashnikov.
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Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city
Karpovka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Petrogradskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 44
Bibliographies
Судравский В. К. История Лейб-гвардии гренадерского полка, 1756-1906. СПб., 1906
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Decembrist Revolt of 1825
DECEMBRIST REVOLT OF 1825, the first overt armed revolt against autocracy and the ownership of serfs in Russia. It was prepared by the Northern Decembrist Society
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Fullon I.A., head of the city administration in 1904-1905
FULLON Ivan Alexandrovich (1844-1920), statesman, infantry general (1908), adjutant-general (1904). He graduated from Nikolaevskoe Cavalry School in St. Petersburg (1862). A participant of the suppression of the Polish uprising of 1863-64
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Grenadier's Bridge
GRENADIER'S BRIDGE (formerly Sampsonievsky), across the Bolshaya Nevka, joining Chapaeva Street and Petrogradskaya Embankment (on the left, the bank of the Bolshaya Nevka) with Grenadierskaya Street and Vyborgskaya Embankment
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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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Guards' Case
GUARDS' CASE (Spring case), one from the series of cases fabricated by the Joint State Political Administration Board against former officers of Imperial and White Armies
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Kakhovsky P.G. (1797-1826), Decembrist
KAKHOVSKY Peter Grigorievich (1799 - 1826), Decembrist, retired poruchik (lieutenant). Educated at Moscow University Boarding School. From March 1816 served as a cadet in the Chasseur Life Guard Regiment of St
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Maneges (general article)
MANEGES, or riding-schools, (exerzirehaus), buildings with a large interior space, intended for troop drill exercises and cavalry dressage in fall and winter. Maneges were built in St
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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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The Life-Guards 2nd Tsarskoselsky Rifle Regiment
The Life-Guards 2nd Rifle Battalion was established on March 27, 1856 on the basis of the rifle companies of the 2nd Guard Division. The Battalion was made a part of the Old Guard and given all rights and privileges of the Old Guard
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