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Moscow Life Guards Regiment
Moscow Life Guards Regiment
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Army. Navy/Garrison
MOSCOW LIFE GUARDS REGIMENT, infantry guards regiment, formed in 1811 out of the 1st Life Guards Battalion of Preobrazhensky Regiment as the Life-Guards Litovsky (Lithuanian) Regiment, in 1817 named the Moscow (Moskovsky) Life-guards Regiment, the 3rd Battalion had been transferred to Warsaw, and the new Life-Guards Litovsky (Lithuanian) Regiment was formed on its basis. It participated in the wars with France (1812-14) and Turkey (1828-29, 1877-78), in suppressing the Polish insurrection 1830-31, and in WW I of 1914-18. Two of the regiment's companies took part in the Decembrist Revolt on 14 December 1825, after its suppression were dispatched to the Caucasus, its soldiers distinguished themselves in the Russo-Persian War of 1827-28. In 1817-90 the regiment was stationed in the barracks of the local corps (90 Fontanka River Embankment), afterwards in specially built barracks (63-65 Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Avenue). The regiment's chapel was Archangel Michael Cathedral Church, (61 Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Avenue; 1905-06, architect A.G. Uspensky). In the early 1918 the regiment was disbanded. References: Пестриков Н. С. История Лейб-гвардии Московского полка: В т. СПб., 1903-1904; Антонов Б. И. Императорская гвардия в Санкт-Петербурге. СПб., 2001. G. V. Kalashnikov.
Persons
Uspensky Alexander Glebovich
Addresses
Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 63
Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 65
Bolshoy Sampsonievsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 61
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 90
Bibliographies
Пестриков Н. С. История Лейб-гвардии Московского полка: В 2 т. СПб., 1903-1904
Антонов Б. И. Императорская гвардия в Санкт-Петербурге. СПб., 2001
The subject Index
Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment
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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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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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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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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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