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and in January of the following year was renamed His Majesty's Guards Militia Battalion and, in April, His Majesty's Finnish Battalion. Reinforced and reorganised, in October 1811 the battalion was enlarged to become the Guards Finnish Regiment of three infantry battalions. The first battalion, still
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should they mutiny. Because the original battalion had taken part in much of the Napoleonic wars, the new regiment inherited the rights of the "Old Guard" and was included into the Guards Corps rather than the general army.
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and decided that Nicholas must abdicate. Faced with this demand, which was echoed by his generals, deprived of loyal troops, with his family in the hands of the
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to try to restore order, but it was impossible to turn the tide of revolutionary change. The Duma and the Soviet had already formed the nucleus of a
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and fearful of unleashing civil war and opening the way for a German conquest, Nicholas had no choice but to submit. At the end of the "
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Withdrawn from the front to Saint Petersburg, the soldiers of the regiment rebelled, killed their officers, and participated in the
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Unlike many older units of the imperial Russian Army, the Volinsky Regiment neither was attached to nor originated from the land of
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with its heavy artillery was in the hands of the insurgents. By nightfall 60,000 soldiers had joined the revolution.
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including many veterans of the original militia unit, was then mentioned in dispatches for its role in the
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Handbook of the Russian Army 1914 by the British General Staff. Battery Press reprint edition, 1996.
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On 12 October 1817 (Old Style), this battalion was reorganised as the Volinsky Guards Regiment (
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Order broke down and members of the Parliament (Duma) formed a
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Officers and soldiers of the Volinsky Regiment in Warsaw. 1864.
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had issued orders forbidding the populace from assembling in
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Russian military units and formations of the Napoleonic Wars
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as part of the XXIII Army Corps and in the inconclusive
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infantry regiment. Created out of a single battalion of
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The regiment took active part in many battles of the
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1917
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Russian Imperial Guard
Finnish Guard Regiment
Polish-Russian War
Crimean War
January Uprising
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Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia
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Battle of Guttstadt-Deppen
War of the Fourth Coalition
Battle of Friedland
Battle of Leipzig
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