Peter's play regiments at Preobrazhenskoye
1683–1689* · Event
The boy tsar drills hundreds of companions with real artillery and fortresses; his 'play' troops become the Preobrazhensky and Semyonovsky Guards.
On these timelines: Peter the Great's Revolution, Russia & the USSR, Master
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