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In 2013 the regiment re-formed within the Russian Armed Forces as the 154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment. Ĭolonel Alexander Kutepov (later a general) became the last commander of the regiment in April 1917 he disbanded the formation in December 1917 in the wake of the October Revolution of November 1917. The mutiny was quickly suppressed and 190 soldiers sentenced to service in disciplinary battalions. In spite of its distinguished record, part of one battalion of the regiment mutinied in June 1906, at a time of general unrest in the Russian Empire. The regiment operated as the body-guard of the Grand Duchess Yekaterina Alekseevna as well as the main supporter of her bloodless 1762 coup against her husband Emperor Peter III having become Empress Catherine II ( r. 1762–1796) she declared the Preobrazhensky highest in the order of military precedence from 14 July 1762. The Preobrazhensky Regiment distinguished itself during the Great Northern War of 1700–1721, the Patriotic War of 1812, and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. The Preobrazhensky Company of Peter's forces officially formed in 1687 it had expanded to become a regiment ( Russian: полк, romanized: polk) by the 1690s. The young Tsar Peter I of Russia (born 1672, r. 1682–1725) developed the regiment from 1683 onwards on the basis of his poteshnye voiska ("toy forces"), during the military games he conducted in the village of Preobrazhenskoye (now a district in Moscow). 8 Notable people who served in the Preobrazhensky Regiment.