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2nd Guards Cavalry Division
2-я Гвардейская кавалерийская дивизия
Active	1810–1918
Country	Russian Empire
Allegiance	Guards Corps
Branch	Russian Imperial Army
Type	Light cavalry
Role	Maneuver warfare Raiding Reconnaissance
Size	Division
Battle honours	Borodino Fère-Champenoise Great War

The 2nd Guards Cavalry Division was a Guards light cavalry division of the Imperial Russian Army.

Organisation

1857–1918:

• 1st Cavalry Brigade
  • Horse Grenadier Life-Guards Regiment
  • Her Majesty's Lancer Guards Regiment
• 2nd Cavalry Brigade
  • Dragoon Guards Regiment
  • His Majesty's Hussar Guards Regiment)
• 2nd Division Life-Guards Horse Artillery

Commanders

• 1882–1884: Aleksandr Puzyrevskii
• 1886–1890: Victor Fedorovitch Winberg
• 1901–1905: Georgi Skalon
• 1906–1909: Aleksei Brusilov
• 1912-1914: Georgy Ottonovich Rauch

Commanders of the 1st Brigade

• 1913–1914: Sergei Belosselsky-Belozersky

Commanders of the 2nd Brigade

• 1873–1874: Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov
• 1896–1898: Sergei Vasilchikov

Chiefs of Staff

• 1866–1875: Kazimir Vasilevich Levitsky
• 1902: Andrei Zayonchkovski
• 1909—1914 : Afrikan P. Bogaewsky

References

1. Leib-Gvardii Ulanskii Eia Velichestva Gosudaryni Imperatritsy Aleksandry Feodorovny Polk
2. Leib-Gvardii Dragunskii Polk
3. Leib-Gvardii Gusarskii Ego Velichestva Polk
4. Panchenko, Aleksandr (2007). "А.К. Пузыревский: Генерал, Ученый, Военный Историк" [A.K. Puzyrevskii: General, Scientist, Military Historian]. Bibliosphera (in Russian). 1 (4): 33–42. Retrieved 8 May 2017.

v t e Russian Imperial Army divisions in World War I
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
Volunteer	1st Serbian  • Czechoslovak

• Guards cavalry divisions of the Russian Empire
• Military units and formations established in 1810
• Military units and formations disestablished in 1918
• Saint Petersburg Governorate