• Source: 1st Guards Cavalry Division (Russian Empire)

    • The 1st Guards Cavalry Division was a Guards heavy cavalry division of the Imperial Russian Army.


    Organization


    1857–1918:

    1st Cavalry Brigade
    Chevalier Guard Regiment
    Life Guard Horse Regiment, also called the Leib-Guard Horse Regiment or simply the Horse Guards
    2nd Cavalry Brigade
    His Majesty's Own Cuirassier Guards Regiment,
    Her Majesty's Own Cuirassier Guards Regiment
    3rd Cavalry Brigade
    His Majesty's Own Cossack Life-Guards Regiment
    Ataman Cossack Life-Guards Regiment of H. I. H. the Tsesarevich
    Combined Cossack Life-Guards Regiment
    1st Life-Guards Horse Artillery Division
    Each regiment comprised four squadrons (or, in Cossack regiments, four sotnyas, or "hundreds"); the colonels of the Guard regiments usually were Major-Generals in rank.


    Commanders


    23.12.1910—30.03.1916 — Nikolai Kaznakov
    02.04.1916—22.01.1917 — Pavlo Skoropadskyi
    10.03.1917—15.04.1917 — Evgeny Arseniev
    15.05.1917—06.08.1917 — Aleksander Eristov
    19.08.1917— ? — Afrikan P. Bogaewsky


    References

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