Peterburg - stolitsa russkoi gvardii - Almazov Boris Aleksandrovich

St. Petersburg is a unique city. Most of the events in three centuries of imperial history took place here! Here served, from here went to war, here returned the winners. Here rest in forgotten cemeteries or the characters of the past times are cast in bronze. In the Northern capital, there are thousands of unique sites, hundreds of names on the map of the city and, in addition, entire neighborhoods and neighborhoods that can serve as an occasion for the creation of many books. Some city names are: Connogward Boulevard, Cavalergard Street, Grenadier Bridges, Sapper Lane, Artillery Lane and other "Guardian" names. In St. Petersburg constantly housed guard regiments, in each - dozens of heroes worthy of a separate story, not to mention the history of each regiment. But the modern citizen, who lives a century later, after the last Lab Guards left St. Petersburg, has much to explain. For example, what distinguished hussars from ulans, dragoons from cans-rangers or conno-pioneers, grenadiers from rangers ...
The story about the Guard is not limited to the story of the capital. St. Petersburg, Volynsky), the Hrodna Hussar Regiment, the Ulan's Hussar Regiment' Lab Guard are in Warsaw, and you will also learn from this book...