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1st Guards Cavalry Division (Russian Empire)

Field	Value
unit_name	1st Guards Cavalry Division
native_name	1-я Гвардейская кавалерийская дивизия
dates	1810–1918
country	Russian Empire
allegiance	Guards Corps
branch	[[File:Lesser Coat of Arms of Russian Empire.svg	20px]] Russian Imperial Army
type	Heavy Cavalry
role	Close protection
Maneuver warfare
Shock attack
battle_honours	Borodino
Fère-Champenoise
Great War

Maneuver warfare Shock attack 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,
- 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 ru, 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

[[Imperial Guard (Russia). 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".
Other Russian cavalry divisions generally comprised four regiments apiece, each of six squadrons (or ''{{Transliteration. ru. sotnyas'') of the same size -- 150 men and 8 officers -- under a colonel.

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