Volhynian Life Guards Regiment

Volinsky Lifeguard Regiment
— III —
Officers and soldiers of the Volinsky Regiment in Warsaw. 1864.
Active1817–1917
CountryRussian Empire
BranchRussian Imperial Guard
TypeInfantry
SizeRegiment
Part of3rd Guard infantry division, XXIII Army Corps, Warsaw military district
Garrison/HQWarsaw (1913)
Commanders
Colonel-in-ChiefGrand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich (1856–1878)
Insignia
Badge of the regiment

The Volinsky Lifeguard Regiment (Russian: Волынский лейб-гвардии полк), more correctly translated as the Volhynian Life-Guards Regiment, was a Russian Imperial Guard infantry regiment. Created out of a single battalion of Finnish Guard Regiment in 1817, the regiment took part in the Polish-Russian War of 1830–1831, the Crimean War, the January Uprising of 1863 and the First World War.