Life company Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. Demkin A.V.

On the night of November 25, 1741, a coup d'etat occurred in Russia, and Elizaveta Petrovna entered the throne. Five weeks later, a decree was issued on the creation of a label company-the personal protection of the empress, formed from the Grenadiers of the Preobrazhensky regiment that had ascended it to the throne. The ordinary of this unique unit was equal to the rank of army lieutenant, and the second lieutenant and above - army generals. Granted by the nobility and estates, which made a dizzying career in the epicenter of palace life in an instant. Natives of different classes, brave, rude, mostly illiterate, sometimes prone to hopeless worshipers, they brought an inexplicable flavor into the life of the imperial capital. Andrei Demkin’s book, saturated with the details of the service, life and everyday life of label companies, is based on new sources found by the author in Russian archives.