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Life Guards

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Life Guards 

(Russian, lieb gvardiia), a guard to protect the person of the monarch; also, the designation of elite military units in some monarchies.

In tsarist Russia all guards units were called life guards (for example, the Preobrazhenskii Life Guards Regiment and the Combat Engineer Life Guards Battalion). The designation “life guards” was also added to the name of army regiments under the patronage of the emperor or the empress (for example, the 68th Borodino Life Guards Infantry Regiment). In Germany (until 1918) and in Great Britain some regiments of the cavalry guards have been called life guards.
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Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I and have a brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement to a beautiful maid of honour, a favourite of the Empress's, gave his small estate to his sister, and retired to a monastery to become a monk.
Father Sergius by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
But, it being whispered that a detachment of Life Guards had been sent for, they took to their heels with great expedition, and left the street quite clear.
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