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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,
  • 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 sotnyas, 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

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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Infantry	Guards 1 2 3 1st – 9th 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10th – 19th 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20th – 29th 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30th – 39th 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40th – 49th 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50th – 52nd 50 51 52 1914 July 53rd – 59th 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60th – 69th 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70th – 79th 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80th – 84th 80 81 82 83 84 1915 June 99th – 109th 99  • 100  • 101  • 102  • 103  • 104  • 105  • 106  • 107  • 108  • 109 110th – 119th 110  • 111  • 112  • 113  • 114  • 115  • 116  • 117  • 118  • 119 120th – 124th 120  • 121  • 122  • 123  • 124 September 125 November 126  • 127 1916 October 128 November 129  • 130  • 131  • 132  • 133  • 134  • 135  • 136  • 137  • 138 1917 January 151st – 159th 151  • 152  • 153  • 154  • 155  • 156  • 157  • 158  • 159 160th – 169th 160  • 161  • 162  • 163  • 164  • 165  • 166  • 167  • 168  • 169 170th – 179th 170  • 171  • 172  • 173  • 174  • 175  • 176  • 177  • 178  • 179 180th – 189th 180  • 181  • 182  • 183  • 184  • 185  • 186  • 187  • 188  • 189 190th – 194th 190  • 191  • 192  • 193  • 194
Grenadier	1 2 3 Caucasus January 1917: 5  • 6  • 2nd Caucasus
Siberian Rifle	1st – 15th 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 November 1916 16  • 17 January 1917 Combined  • 18  • 19  • 20  • 21  • 22
Finland Rifle	May 1915 1 2 3 4 January 1917 5 6
Cavalry	Guards 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Caucasus December 1914: 16
Cossack	Caucasus 1 2 3 Native Cavalry 1st Don 2nd Combined
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