The 6th Libau Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar ...
. It was formed on May 16, 1806 during the reign of Tsar
Alexander I of Russia and disbanded in 1918. The regiment took part in warfare during the Napoleonic era, as well as
World War I.
History
The regiment celebrated its anniversary on June 8.
The regiment was named after its patrons, various Prussian princes from 1822. The last of its patrons was
Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, who was its patron from 1885. In 1914, its garrison was the
Novogeorgievsk Fortress and it was part of the 1st Brigade of the
2nd Infantry Division (Russian Empire). On 1 August 1914, the regiment dropped its patron's name from its title as a result of the outbreak of World War I against Germany.
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External links
Spis pułków armii carskiej(pl)
* http://www.grwar.ru/regiments/regiments.html?id=760 (ru)
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Military units and formations established in 1806
Military units and formations disestablished in 1918