• The Separate Corps of Gendarmes (Russian: Отдельный корпус жандармов) was the uniformed security police of the Imperial Russian Army in the Russian Empire...
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    Gendarmerie (redirect from Gendarmes)
    historically, different bodies within Imperial Russia's Special Corps of Gendarmes performed a variety of functions as an armed rural constabulary, urban riot control...
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  • Corps of Gendarmes may refer to: Special Corps of Gendarmes of the Russian Empire Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City This disambiguation page lists...
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    National Guard Forces Command (category Units and formations of the National Guard of Russia)
    Russian Federation). It is the main successor of the Special Corps of Gendarmes and the Internal Troops of Russia. From 1565 to 1572 the Oprichnina and...
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    the Special Corps of Gendarmes of the Russian Empire founded in 1811 and entered their modern form as a paramilitary of the interior ministry of the Russian...
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    in the late 19th century and early 20th century, aided by the Special Corps of Gendarmes. Formed to combat political terrorism and left-wing politics and...
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    Aleksandr Potapov (statesman) (category Chiefs of the Special Corps of Gendarmes)
    was Chief of Staff of the Special Corps of Gendarmes from 1861 to 1864, Governor-General of Vilna from 1868 to 1874, and Chief of Gendarmes and Executive...
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    Vasily Andreyevich Dolgorukov (category Chiefs of the Special Corps of Gendarmes)
    General of the Cavalry (1856, a full General equivalent), Minister of War (1852–1856), Chief of Gendarmes and Executive Head of the Third Section of H.I.M...
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    Alexander Drenteln (category Chiefs of the Special Corps of Gendarmes)
    rank of General of the Infantry, and held the positions of: Adjutant General of the H. I. M. Retinue, Chief of Gendarmes, the last Executive Head of the...
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    and security force, of Vatican City, Holy See and its extraterritorial properties. It was founded in 1816 as Corps of Gendarmes by Pope Pius VII, renamed...
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    Alexander von Benckendorff (category Chiefs of the Special Corps of Gendarmes)
    establishment of a Corps of Gendarmes and of a secret police, the Third Section of the Imperial Chancellery. He served as the first Chief of Gendarmes and executive...
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    and was aided by the Special Corps of Gendarmes. The Police Department was established on August 6, 1880 following the dissolution of the Third Section....
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    abolished during the military reforms of Alexander II. Until 1917, the Special Corps of Gendarmes exercised the functions of military police in the Russian Empire...
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    ordinary police, but was associated with the previously existing Special Corps of Gendarmes, whose chief was placed at its head. Its object had originally...
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    Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov (category Chiefs of the Special Corps of Gendarmes)
    of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and, in 1861, was made Chief of Staff of the Special Corps of Gendarmes. He proposed for the Corps to be abolished...
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    Special Corps of Gendarmes Internal Troops of Russia National Guard Forces Command National Guard Naval Service Corps Awards of the National Guard of the...
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    Alexander Fok (category Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree)
    in St. Petersburg in 1864, and from 1871 to 1876 served in the Special Corps of Gendarmes, an elite uniformed security police force responsible for state...
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    significant gap in the institution of the metropolitan police was the absence of a special part with the special purpose of conducting research for solving...
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    the people the heavy hand of reaction. Despite rumors, Zubatov was never a Colonel (Polkovnik) in the Special Corps of Gendarmes, but he was rapidly promoted...
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    to refer to the Russian Special Corps of Gendarmes. The text in the third publication is probably the most original version of the poem. The text in the...
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  • otdeleniye (Okhrana or slang Okhranka) (Security Section) (1866–1917) Special Corps of Gendarmes (1836–1917) Cheka (1917–1922) (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission)...
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    Germany) People's Armed Police (China) Special Corps of Gendarmes (Russian Empire) Sarandoy (Democratic Republic of Afghanistan) "Внутренние войска будут...
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    Viktor von Wahl (category Chiefs of the Special Corps of Gendarmes)
    became a member of the State Council in 1903, and held the title of "Assistant Minister of the Interior and Commander of the Gendarme Corps." after 1902...
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  • on the Ministry of Interior, the most powerful of all, which had under its control governors, police, and a Special Corps of Gendarmes, the uniformed secret...
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    consisted of one 'brigadier' and four gendarmes. As part of the Baden Army, the corps was subordinate to both the Ministry of War and the Ministry of the Interior...
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    Police Department, former Czarist police Special Corps of Gendarmes MVD Anton Devier Ministry of Police (disambiguation) (in Russian) History of Ministry...
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  • Siergiej Muchanow (category Special Corps of Gendarmes personnel)
    official, an officer in the Special Corps of Gendarmes, later also director of the Warsaw Theatre Directorate and second husband of the Polish pianist Maria...
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    the role of commander of the Imperial Main Headquarters was combined with that of the commander of the Special Corps of Gendarmes. It later became an independent...
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    Nikolai Borisovich Shcherbatov (category Interior ministers of the Russian Empire)
    Special Corps of Gendarmes, the uniformed security police. In opposition circles Shcherbatov was seen as a possible candidate for the presidency of the...
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    addressed to Alexander von Benckendorff (then the head of the Special Corps of Gendarmes in Imperial Russia) even deplored the fact that "this M.[elgunov]...
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