1st Guards Cavalry Division (Russian Empire)

1st Guards Cavalry Division
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	Close protection; Maneuver warfare; Shock attack
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:

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

^ Leib-Gvardii Kirasirskii Ego Velichestva Polk
^ Leib-Gvardii Kirasirskii Eia Velichestva Polk
^ Leib-Gvardii Kazachii Ego Velichestva Polk
^ Leib-Gvardii Atamanskii Ego Imperatorskago Vysochestva Naslednika Tsesarevicha Polk
^ "1-я гвардейская кавалерийская дивизия" [1st Guards Cavalry Division]. regiment.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-11-24.
^ 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.

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[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.

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