1st Guards Cavalry Division (Russian Empire)

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	Cavalry
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
- Horse Guard Regiment
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

All the regiments were made of 4 squadrons (sotnyas — hundreds — in Cossack regiments) with the colonels of the regiments usually having a rank of Major-General.^[6]

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.
↑ in the Army Cavalry it usually were 4 regiments per Division, consisting of 6 squadrons/sotnyas of the same size — 150 men and 8 officers — under a colonel

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Guards Cavalry Divisions	1st • 2nd
Cavalry Divisions	1st • 2nd • 3rd • 4th • 5th • 6th • 7th • 8th • 9th • 10th • 11th • 12th • 13th • 14th • 15th • Caucasus
Cossack Divisions	1st Don • 2nd Svodnaya • 1st Caucasus • 2nd Caucasus • 3rd Caucasus • Caucasus Native Cavalry

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