Russian Imperial Military Bronze Badge with enamel order medal (#1940)

Badge of the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment for lower ranks. In Russia there is no other military unit as famous as the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment.

And this music is well known all over the world - the march of the Preobrazhensky Regiment. The history of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment began more than three hundred years ago. When the heir of the Russian Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, the young Tsarevich Peter was exiled to the village of Preobrazhenskoye and, for the sake of fun, gathered around him young falconers, courtyard servants and just peasants for military fun. From this composition, the future great Emperor of All Russia created two detachments, one of which he called the Semyonovsky regiment, and the second - the Preobrazhensky regiment.

It was this event, which occurred in 1683, that is considered to be the moment of the birth of the glorious Russian Guard. 1683 TSAR PETER ALEXEEVICH began to gather around him, in the village of Preobrazhenskoe near Moscow, for war games, the so-called Poteshny, from his peers - the children of boyars and courtiers. Contemporaries did not leave any notes about the original design of the amusing ones; it is only known that their number, which at first did not exceed 50, quickly increased, so that, due to lack of premises, some of them were transferred to the village of Semenovskoye.

1687 The Amusing Regiments begin to be called soldier regiments: Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky. Please carefully review the attached photos, if you need any additional photos please contact me. Pay Pal only Thank you.

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