1st Guards Cavalry Division (Russian Empire)

Military unit

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,^[1]
  • Her Majesty's Own Cuirassier Guards Regiment^[2]
• 3rd Cavalry Brigade
  • His Majesty's Own Cossack Life-Guards Regiment^[3]
  • Ataman Cossack Life-Guards Regiment of H. I. H. the Tsesarevich^[4][5]
  • 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.^[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. Other Russian cavalry divisions generally comprised four regiments apiece, each of six squadrons (or sotnyas) of the same size -- 150 men and 8 officers -- under a colonel.