SNC040-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale item we are offering. It comes in bubble wrap with original Osprey booklet.
Paint chips.
Del Prado SNC040 Trooper, Russian Guard Cavalry, 1805
Deliberately ignoring the existing Chevalier-Garde of his mother, Catherine the Great, upon his accession Tsar Paul formed his own bodyguard squadron, and, after once disbanding it, recreated the unit in 1799, and enlarged it in March 1800 to three squadrons. From that date the Russian Chevalier-Garde ceased to be the ceremonial bodyguard it had been since the days of Peter the Great, and became an active cuirassier regiment.
The Chevalier-Garde was the senior Lifeguard corps, other cavalry units were the Horse Guards, the Lifeguard Hussars and the Lifeguard Cossacks. The latter two corps were formed by Paul from his mothers Lifeguard Hussars and his own Gatchina hussar and cossack regiments. Originally styled the Life-Hussar Cossack Regiment, it was split into separate regiments after only one month.