1st Guards Cavalry Division (Russian Empire)

The 1st Guards Cavalry Division was a Guards heavy cavalry division of the Imperial Russian Army.

Organization
1857–1918: Each regiment comprised four squadrons (or, in Cossack regiments, four sotnyas, or "hundreds"); the colonels of the Guard regiments usually were Major-Generals in rank.
 * 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,
 * Her Majesty's Own Cuirassier Guards Regiment
 * 3rd Cavalry Brigade
 * His Majesty's Own Cossack Life-Guards Regiment
 * Ataman Cossack Life-Guards Regiment of H. I. H. the Tsesarevich
 * Combined Cossack Life-Guards Regiment
 * 1st Life-Guards Horse Artillery Division

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