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The historical Preobrazhenskiy Regiment was raised by Tsar Peter I in 1691 from servants and personal friends, and barracked them in the Moscow neighbourhood of Preobrazhenskoe where he and his mother lived. As the Tsar matured, so did the regiment and the various war-games it conducted. This regiment, alongside its sister-regiment Semenovskiy, formed the nucleus of the new westernized army Peter was creating (and displaced the hereditary Streltsy forces in the process). In 1700, before the battle of Narva against Sweden, he officially ordained both regiments to be "Leib-Gvardii," from the German for "body" and the Italian for "guard," thus marking their exception from the rank-and-file. In peace they protected the Romanov family and their property, while in war they could be deployed as a shock-troop to bolster the regiments of the line in times of dire need. They were the premier regiment of the guard, and therefore the premier regiment of the entire army, and the Emperors held the title of Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment at all times, though they were always commanded in battle by someone else. They were also a political weapon within the court: whomever had the support of the Preobrazhenskiy and Semenovskiy regiments could take the Imperial throne. Serving through the entire 18th and 19th centuries, the Preobrazhensky would last be deployed in the First World War before disbanding in 1917 with the abdication of Nicholas II and the dissolution of the empire.
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12 July, 2017
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