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,Leib-Gvardii Kirasirskii Ego Velichestva Polk Her Majesty's Own Cuirassier Guards RegimentLeib-Gvardii Kirasirskii Eia Velichestva Polk 3rd Cavalry Brigade His Majesty's Own Cossack Life-Guards RegimentLeib-Gvardii Kazachii Ego Velichestva Polk Ataman Cossack Life-Guards Regiment of H. I. H. the TsesarevichLeib-Gvardii Atamanskii Ego Imperatorskago Vysochestva Naslednika Tsesarevicha Polk Combined Cossack Life-Guards Regiment 1st Life-Guards Horse Artillery Division Each regiment comprised four squadrons (or, in Cossack regiments, four , or "hundreds"); the colonels of the Guard regiments usually were Major-Generals in rank.Other Russian cavalry divisions generally comprised four regiments apiece, each of six squadrons (or ) of the same size -- 150 men and 8 officers -- under a colonel.
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
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