Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An fara kafa shi ne a ranar 27 ga Maris, 1856 a matsayin 1st Battalion Life Guards Rifle Battalion daga wasu rundunonin da ke cikin Rukunin Sojoji na 1 da Rukunin Sojoji na 2, tare da wasu raka'a. A shekara ta 1863 rukunin ya shiga cikin murkushe
Tashin hankali na Poland kuma a cikin 1870 ya zama wani ɓangare na sabon Brigade Rifle Brigade, a ƙarƙashin umurnin Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich. Daga baya ya sami bambanci na kai wa Sarkin sarakuna Alexander II a lokacin yakin Russo-Turkish na 1877-78. A cikin 1910 an daga shi daga bataliya zuwa cikakken runduna kuma a cikin 1914, tare da ɓarkewar Yaƙin Duniya na I da kuma tattarawar gaba ɗaya, ya sami bataliya ta ajiya. A shekara ta 1917 an sake masa suna "1st Guards Rifle Regiment" kuma an rushe shi gaba daya a watan Mayu 1918. Da yawa daga cikin membobinta sun ci gaba da yaƙi a cikin White Army a lokacin Yaƙin Basasa na Rasha. A shekara ta 1951 an kafa kungiyar tsoffin sojoji na rundunar ta wasu fararen fata.