Regulations on the Officers' Meeting of the Life Guards of Jaeger Regiment

Life Guards Jaeger Regiment his seniority refers to 1796, when the nominal decree of Emperor Paul I of Jaeger teams Guards Semenov and Izmailovsky regiments, as well as company Gatchina Jaeger Battalion was formed, ranked among the Guard, and in 1806 deployed a battalion of the regiment . Its first commander was Colonel AI Raczynski, who commanded under Paul Petrovich Jaeger team in Gatchina, and the first chief of the regiment until 1812 - the famous Russian military leader Prince Bagration. The regiment took part in almost all the wars of the XIX century, including the War of 1812, the Russian-Turkish wars and military campaigns in the Caucasus. Russian Imperial Guard at the end of the XIX century was the largest troop association includes three infantry and two cavalry divisions, rifle and separate cavalry brigades, as well as other parts. At the same time the Guards regiments were only 4% of the Imperial Army. The officer corps of the Guard was completed on a very strict rules, where representatives of most noble families were defined in the shelves down from generation to generation. On a shelf Guard officers watched as his second family when they were married and unmarried, as the only.