. "Guards () or Guards units () were and still are elite military units of Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The tradition goes back to the a chieftain's druzhina of medieval Kievan Rus' and the Marksman Troops (\u0421\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043B\u0435\u0446\u043A\u043E\u0435 \u0412\u043E\u0439\u0441\u043A\u043E), the Muscovite harquebusiers formed by Ivan the Terrible by 1550. The exact meaning of the term \"Guards\" varied over time."@en . "Russian Guards"@en . . . "Guards () or Guards units () were and still are elite military units of Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The tradition goes back to the a chieftain's druzhina of medieval Kievan Rus' and the Marksman Troops (\u0421\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043B\u0435\u0446\u043A\u043E\u0435 \u0412\u043E\u0439\u0441\u043A\u043E), the Muscovite harquebusiers formed by Ivan the Terrible by 1550. The exact meaning of the term \"Guards\" varied over time."@en . . . . . .