#preobrazhensky

[martykai]

drunken bourgeois...

[bedbabayka-art]

A difficult conversation between Victor Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Professor Preobrazhensky on the topic:

"My son is a complete disappointment"

[garumlupus]

[diemelusine]

Portrait of Nikolai Islenev (1837) by Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets. Hermitage Museum.

[aquitainequeen]

Surrounded by a cheering crowd, with church bells ringing across the city, the empress walked down the Nevsky Prospect to the Winter Palace. There, an obstacle arose. The senior regiment of the Guards, the Preobrazhensky, had wavered. The majority of the soldiers favoured Catherine, but some of the officers, having sworn an oath to defend the emperor, were uncertain. After a debate among themselves, the soldiers buckled on their swords, snatched up their muskets, tore off their tight-fitting Prussian uniforms, and dressed in as many of their old bottle-green jackets as they could find. Then, more like a mob than a military body, they hurried to the Winter Palace, which they found surrounded and guarded by the guarded by the Izmailovsky and Semyonovsky regiments. The Preobrazhenskys shouted to Catherine, "Matushka, forgive us for coming last. Our officers held us back and, to prove our zeal, we have arrested four of them. We wish the same thing as our brothers." The empress responding by nodding, smiling, and sending the archbishop of Novgorod to administer the oath of allegiance to the latecomers.

Catherine The Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

[redarmyscreaming]

Uniform of the Preobrazhensky Life-Guard Regiment, 1855. The Preobrazhensky Life-Guard Regiment was one of the oldest and most elite guard regiments of the Imperial Russian Army.

[cuirassier]

Officer of the Grenadier Company of the Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment, 1793, Russia, Christian Gottfried Heinrich Geißler

[martykai]

Communist family