1st Guards Cavalry Division (Russian Empire)

1st Guards Cavalry Division
1-я Гвардейская кавалерийская дивизия
Active 1810–1918
Country  Russian Empire
Allegiance Guards Corps
Branch Russian Imperial Army
Type Heavy Cavalry
Role Cavalry
Battle honours Borodino
Fère-Champenoise
Great War

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

Organization

1857–1918:

All the regiments were made of 4 squadrons (sotnyas — hundreds — in Cossack regiments) with the colonels of the regiments usually having a rank of Major-General.[6]

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

  1. ↑ Leib-Gvardii Kirasirskii Ego Velichestva Polk
  2. ↑ Leib-Gvardii Kirasirskii Eia Velichestva Polk
  3. ↑ Leib-Gvardii Kazachii Ego Velichestva Polk
  4. ↑ Leib-Gvardii Atamanskii Ego Imperatorskago Vysochestva Naslednika Tsesarevicha Polk
  5. ↑ "1-я гвардейская кавалерийская дивизия" [1st Guards Cavalry Division]. regiment.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-11-24.
  6. ↑ in the Army Cavalry it usually were 4 regiments per Division, consisting of 6 squadrons/sotnyas of the same size — 150 men and 8 officers — under a colonel


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