2nd Guards Cavalry Division

2nd Guards Cavalry Division
2-я Гвардейская кавалерийская дивизия
Active1810–1918
Country Russian Empire
AllegianceGuards Corps
Branch Russian Imperial Army
TypeLight cavalry
RoleManeuver warfare
Raiding
Reconnaissance
SizeDivision
Battle honoursBorodino
Fère-Champenoise
Great War
Military unit

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[1]
  • 2nd Cavalry Brigade
    • Dragoon Guards Regiment[2]
    • His Majesty's Hussar Guards Regiment[3])
  • 2nd Division Life-Guards Horse Artillery

Commanders

  • 1882–1884: Aleksandr Puzyrevskii[4]
  • 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.
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