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The regiment was divided into eight companies. A Reiter regiment (heavy cavalry) of about two thousand people was formed from Russian people. This regiment consisted of 14 companies of 125–130 men each. By 1657, 11 Reiter and soldier regiments were formed in Russia. Gradually, the regiments of the new system forced out the old army.
The Landed Army (Russian: Поместное войско, romanized: Pomestnoe voisko) was the feudal cavalry of the Grand Principality of Moscow and Tsardom of Russia in the 15th to 17th centuries. [1]
The regiments of the new order, or regiments of the foreign order (Полки нового строя or Полки иноземного строя, Polki novovo (inozemnovo) stroya), was the Russian term that was used to describe military units that were formed in the Tsardom of Russia in the 17th century according to the Western European ...
The army was created by the Russian Tsar Peter I on the basis of the Zheldaks (Russian: Желдаки), later called by historians, that began to appear in Russia during the reign of his father, regiments of the new (foreign) system, Streltsy army and Cossacks, taking into account the latest European achievements in the field of military art.
The Preobrazhensky Regiment was one of the oldest infantry regiments in Imperial Russia, along with the Semyonovsky Regiment. Among the two, the Preobrazhensky Regiment was the first to be formally established by Peter the Great from his so-called " toy army " in 1690, and became part of the Western-style regiments in the Russian armed forces.
Infantry regiments of the Russian Empire (30 P) This page was last edited on 2 April 2018, at 22:15 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Peter the Great at a young age. Peter the Great was born on June 9, 1672, to Tsar Alexis I and his second wife Natalia Naryshkina.The tsar had more than 14 children between the two marriages, but only three of the males, Feodor and Ivan by his first marriage and Peter by his second, survived into adulthood.
This painting by Bogdan Willewalde depicts the meeting of officers of the Russian Guards cavalry with the residents of one of the European cities in 1813–1814. It depicts (left - right) officer of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, chief- and staff officers of the Life Guards Horse Regiment, chief-officers of the Life Guards Uhlan and Chevalier Guard Regiments.