Life-company Empress Elizabeth Petrovna

On the night of November 25, 1741, the state coup happened in Russia, and Elizabeth Petrovna joined the throne. Five weeks later, a decree was released on the creation of the Lab company - the personal protection of the Empress, formed from the grazing regiments asked for the throne. The rank of this unique unit was equal to the rank of army guarantor, and the companions and the above-army generals. The granideors who have granted the grenaders who have granted the grenadiers in the epicenter of the palace life. The immigrants from different classes, brave, rough, mostly illiterate, sometimes inclined to hopeless kits, they contributed to the imperial capital inexplicable flavor. Andrei Dhamkin"s book, saturated with the details of the service, life and daily life of the Lab Kompansev, is based on new sources found by the author in Russian archives.
Andrei DEXKIN - a leading researcher at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences