1st Guards Infantry Division (Russian Empire)

The 1st Guards Infantry Division of the Russian Imperial Guard

Russian Imperial Guard

The Russian Imperial Guard, officially known as the Leib Guard were military units serving as personal guards of the Emperor of Russia. Peter the Great founded the first such units following the Prussian practice in the 1690s, to replace the politically-motivated Streltsy.- Organization :The final...

comprised two brigades: the first with the Preobrazhensky Regiment

Preobrazhensky regiment

The Preobrazhensky Regiment was one of the oldest and elite regiments of the Russian army. Along with the Semenovsky regiment also served as a gendarmie unit for the state Secret Chancellery in the 18th century, headed by the Prince Fyodor Romodanovsky.It was formed by Peter the Great in the late...

(Leib-Gvardii Preobrazhenskii Polk) and the Semenovsky Regiment

Semenovsky Regiment

Semenovsky Life-Guards Regiment was one of the two oldest guards regiments of the Imperial Russian Army.- History :...

(Leib-Gvardii Semenovskii Polk), and the second, with the Izmaylovsky Regiment

Izmaylovsky Regiment

Izmaylovsky Regiment was one of the oldest regiments of the Russian army, a subdivision of the 1st Guards Infantry Division of the Imperial Russian Guard. It was formed in Moscow on 22 September 1730. The first colonel of the regiment was appointed Adjutant general Count Karl Gustav von Löwenwolde...

(Leib-Gvardii Izmailovskii Polk) and the Guards Jäger Regiment (Leib-Gvardii Egersky Polk). The division was stationed in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

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