Rakatanga kuvambwa musi wa 27 Kurume 1856 se1st His Majesty's Life Guards Rifle Battalion kubva kune mamwe ma regiment mukati me1st Guards Infantry Division uye 2nd Guards Infantry Division, pamwe nemamwe mauniti. Muna 1863 boka racho rakabatanidzwa mukudzvinyirira kumukira kwePoland
uye muna 1870 vakava rutivi rweGuards Rifle Brigade yakanga ichangobva kuumbwa, pasi pokutonga kwaGreat Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich. Gare gare rakanga rava neropafadzo yokufambisa pacharo Mambo Alexander II mukati meHondo yeRusso-Turkish ya1877-78. Muna 1910 yakasimudzwa kubva mubato kuenda kuchikwata chakazara uye muna 1914, nekutanga kweHondo Yenyika I uye kuunganidzwa kwese, yakagamuchira battalion yekuchengetedza. Muna 1917 yakatumidzwa zita rokuti "1st Guards Rifle Regiment" uye yakanyatsopedzwa muna May 1918. Nhengo dzaro dzinoverengeka dzakapfuurira kurwa muWhite Army mukati meRussian Civil War. Muna 1951 sangano ravaimbova varwi vepurogiramu rakaumbwa navamwe vakanga vatama vachena.