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Chevalier Guard Regiment

Field	Value
unit_name	Chevalier Guard Regiment
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image	Austerlitz cropped.jpg
image_size	250
caption	Chevalier Guard Regiment in the Battle of Austerlitz
dates	1800-1918
country	Russian Empire
branch	Russian Imperial Guard
type	Heavy cavalry
size	Regiment
command_structure	1st Guard Cavalry division
garrison	St. Petersburg
ceremonial_chief_label	Colonel-in-Chief
identification_symbol_label	Banner of the regiment
identification_symbol_2_label	Badge of the regiment

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The Chevalier Guard Regiment () was a Russian heavy cavalry guard regiment, created in 1800 by the reformation of the Chevalier Guard corps, itself created in 1764 by Catherine the Great. As other Russian heavy cavalry guard regiments (the Life-Guards Horse Regiment, His Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment, and Her Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment), the Chevalier Guards were equipped as cuirassiers (with some differences in uniform and equipment from army cuirassiers and other guard cuirassier regiments).

Campaigns

1805 – The regiment first saw combat in the Battle of Austerlitz, in which it fought bravely, covering the retreat of units from the Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky Regiments of the Russian Imperial Guard infantry. The Chevalier Guards were countercharged and defeated by the French Horse Grenadiers of the Old Guard, who inflicted heavy casualties among the Russians.
1807 – Battle of Heilsberg
1812 – The regiment distinguished itself during the Patriotic War of 1812. The Chevalier Guards lost their colonel early in the Battle of Borodino but, in concert with the Life Guard Horse Regiment, effectively stopped the decisive charge of Saxon cuirassier regiments and defeated French Horse Carabiniers.
1813 – Lützen, Kulm, Leipzig
1814 – Fère-Champenoise
1831 – Polish Campaign
1914 – First World War The regiment was disbanded in 1918.

Many famous men served as Chevalier Guards including Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, Grigory Potemkin, Denis Davydov, Mikhail Skobelev, Alexander Rodzyanko, Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim and Alexander Ypsilantis.

Gallery

|File:chevalier guard.jpg|Officers of the Chevalier Guard. In left (1–2) is Gustaf Mannerheim |File:Cavalerguard Regiment.jpg|Military uniform, 1914. Her Majesty Empress Marie Theorodovna Chevalier Guards regiment |File:Кираса офицерская Кавалергардского полка 1880.jpg|Officer's cuirass from the Chevalier Guard Regiment, 1880 |File:B.Villevalde. Episode from Foreign Campaigns of Russian Army of 1813-1814..jpg|This painting by Bogdan Willewalde depicts the meeting of officers of the Russian Guards cavalry with the residents of one of the European cities in 1813–1814. It depicts (left - right) officer of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, chief- and staff officers of the Life Guards Horse Regiment, chief-officers of the Life Guards Uhlan and Chevalier Guard Regiments. In the background can be seen the lower ranks of the Life Guards Hussar and one of the Army Cuirassier Regiments.

References

"Imperial Guard".
(2016). "Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 8 - The grenadiers". Soldiershop Publishing.

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