Life Guard Horse Regiment
Unlike other dragoons, the regimental colour was red and their waistcoats had golden cords; they carried two pistols instead of one, and no axes.
The regiment was granted the timpani drums captured from the Swedish Horse Guards at the Battle of Poltava on 8 July 1709.
Empress Anna Ioannovna accepted the honorary rank of colonel or chief of the regiment; this title was subsequently held by Peter III of Russia, Catherine the Great and others.
The casual uniform of the horse guards was similar to the dragoons, differing only in the jacket's red color and the trousers.
The parade uniform consisted of a tunic, undertail and pants made from buckskin leather, an iron half-sleeve with copper elements, a broadsword on the waist belt, a carbine without a bayonet with a sash and two pistols.
After the death of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich in 1831, each successive regimental chief was a regent or heir to the throne.
In 1805, the regiment took part in the Austrian campaign against the Great Army of Emperor Napoleon, and on 20 November it participated in the Battle of Austerlitz.
All five squadrons of the regiment under the command of Major General Ivan Yankovich, along with the Imperial Guards' Hussars, attacked a battalion of French infantry.
Privates of the 3rd platoon of the 2nd squadron Gavrilov, Omelchenko, Ushakov and Lazunov captured an honorary trophy - the French battalion "eagle" of the 4th line regiment.
For this distinction, the inscription “For the capture of the enemy banner at Austerlitz on 20 November 1805” was added to the regiment standard.
Together with the Cavalier Guard Regiment it attacked Lorge's cuirassier division from the Latour-Maubourg corps at the Raevsky battery.
In April 1813, the regiment was awarded the St. George banner with the inscription "For distinction in the defeat and expulsion of the enemy from the borders of Russia in 1812."
During the Crimean War, the regiment was assigned to guard the coast of the Gulf of Finland from Peterhof to St. Petersburg in case of an Anglo-French landing.
On August 6, it participated in the battle of Kaushen where the guards attacked the German battery on foot, covered with machine guns.
On arrival in the Crimea from 1 May 1920, the unit became the 2nd squadron of the Guards Cavalry Regiment of the Russian Army under General Wrangel.
The regiment lost 18 officers in the White movement (5 were shot, 12 were killed and 1 died of disease), and according to other data 23.
Chiefs (honorary commanders): The lower ranks of the regiment were recruited from tall men with brown hair and mustaches.
1702 "(" For the glorious victory of the Great King of Sweden Charles XII over the Poles, Saxons, Tatars, Wallachs and other foreign peoples under Kleshov in Poland.
Belonged to the Swedish Mounted Guard, repulsed at the Perevolochny and granted to the Life-squadron of Prince Menshikov; after the formation of the Life Guards of the Horse Regiment, they were handed over to the arsenal, then they were kept in the Court Church in Strelna and on July 4, 1827, they were again issued to the regiment.
At the end of the reign of Catherine II, the building of the Horse Guards Regiment was transferred to the barracks of the Tauride Palace - the residence of Prince Potyomkin-Tauride , presented to him by the empress, and after his death in 1791, returned to the treasury (all palace property by order of Paul I was transferred to the new imperial residence, Mikhailovsky castle ).
Lancere, carried out the reconstruction of the arena under the OGPU garage: a second floor with leading ramps was built on it.
The building in the “ Russian style ”, designed by the architect Konstantin Ton , was demolished shortly after the church closed in 1929 under the pretext of “constraining the tram traffic”.
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