The First Cadet Corps was a military school in Saint Petersburg.
Cadet uniform of the Land Gentry Cadet Corps (1793)
Karl Piratsky. Pupils from the mountaineers of the 1st and 2nd Cadet Corps. 1855
The meeting of the Drafting Commission for the liberation of the peasants
The Count (from 1731) Pavel Ivanovich Yaguzhinsky (Yagushinsky) (1683, in Grand Duchy of Lithuania – 17 April 1736, in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian statesman and diplomat, associate of Peter the Great, Chamberlain (1712), Ober-Stallmeister (1727), General-in-chief (1727), the first Attorney General in Russian history (1722–1726, 1730–1735). He was famous for his honesty and integrity, which Peter the Great appreciated in him in the first place.
Pavel Yaguzhinsky
If someone was found guilty in violation of etiquette at the assembly, it was supposed to drain the 1.5-liter "Cup of the Big Eagle". This moment is depicted on the sketch of Valentin Serov
The inscription on the grave of Yaguzhinsky
Countess Praskovya Yaguzhinskaya, married Princess Gagarin