1st Guards Cavalry Division (Russian Empire)

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1st Guards Cavalry Division
1-я Гвардейская кавалерийская дивизия
Active 1810–1918
Country  Russian Empire
Allegiance Guards Corps
Branch Lesser Coat of Arms of Russian Empire.svg 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[edit]

1857–1918:

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[edit]

  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. ^ 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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