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Izmaylovsky Regiment
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment.
The Izmaylovsky Regiment (Russian: Изма́йловский лейб-гва́рдии полк, romanized: Izmáylovskiy leyb-gvárdii polk), also Izmailovsky, was one of the oldest regiments of the Imperial Russian Army, a subdivision of the 1st Guards Infantry Division of the Imperial Russian Guard. It was formed in Moscow on 22 September 1730 as Empress Anna's personal life guards (leib guard), named after the Romanov ancestral estate of Izmaylovo.