Young Guard

Young Guard may refer to:

  • The Young Guard (Napoleon), a French elite military unit during the time of Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Young Guard, associated with Soviet Union and Russia:
    • "Molodaya Gvardiya" (magazine), a monthly literary magazine published since 1922
    • Molodaya Gvardiya (publisher), a publishing house in the Soviet Union and Russia, established in 1922
    • The Young Guard (Soviet resistance), a Soviet resistance organisation during the World War II, composed mainly of teenagers
      • The Young Guard (novel), a 1945 (rev. 1951) novel by Alexander Fadeyev about the Soviet resistance organisation
      • The Young Guard (film), a 1949 Soviet film directed by Sergei Gerasimov, based on Alexander Fadeyev's novel
    • The Young Guard of United Russia, a pro-Kremlin 'direction action' youth organization, youth wing of United Russia]

Famous quotes containing the words young and/or guard:

    “The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “Those that I fight I do not hate,
    Those that I guard I do not love;”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)