Preobrazhensky Guards | Russian military unit | Britannica (original) (raw)

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• administration of Russia
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    In Russia: The Petrine state
    …in the chancery of the Preobrazhensky Guards, the tsar’s own regiment, which became a much-dreaded organ of political police and repression. Under different names the police apparatus remained a permanent feature of the imperial regime. The police were also the instrument of the ruler’s personal intervention, an essential function for…
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• Mussorgsky
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    In Modest Mussorgsky: Life and career
    …a lieutenant, Mussorgsky joined the Preobrazhensky Guards, one of Russia’s most aristocratic regiments, where he made the acquaintance of several music-loving officers who were habitués of the Italian theatre. During this same period he came to know Aleksandr Borodin, a fellow officer who was to become another important Russian composer.…
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• Peter I
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    In Peter I: Youth and accession
    …from which, in 1687, the Preobrazhensky and Semyonovsky Guards regiments were formed—to become the nucleus of a new Russian Army.
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