Photo. Playing Billiards in the Officers ' meeting of the life guards of the Semyonovsky regiment.

Photo. Playing Billiards in the Officers ' meeting of the life guards of the Semyonovsky regiment.
St. Petersburg, Fontanka. Before 1917, the format is 27.5 x 21 cm. Good condition; on the back there are traces of mounting the photo on a substrate. 

Original photos of the beginning of the 20th century from the collection of the KGB General. Years in the ownership of the Ark auction.

[Life guards Semyonovsky regiment — a regiment of the Russian Imperial guard.

In 1800, Emperor Paul I named it the Life Guards of His Imperial Highness Alexander Pavlovich regiment, but on March 14, 1801, Emperor Alexander I returned the regiment to its former name.

Formed by Peter I in 1691 in the village of Semyonovsky near Moscow under the name of the funny semyonovites; from 1697 they began to be called the Semyonovsky regiment, from 1700 — the life guards Semyonovsky.

Commander Nikolai Ivanovich Depreradovich and officers of the Semyonovsky regiment were among those who took part in the plot of March 11, 1801, which resulted in the overthrow and murder of the Russian Emperor Paul I.

For the suppression of the December uprising in Moscow, the commander of the life guards of the Semyonovsky regiment, Georgy Alexandrovich Min, earned the praise of Emperor Nicholas II, was promoted to major General and enlisted in the Retinue. But on August 13, 1906, the hero of the Russian-Turkish war, the commander of the Semyonovsky regiment, Georgy Min, was killed in the back by an eserka.]

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