2nd Guards Cavalry Division

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2nd Guards Cavalry Division
2-я Гвардейская кавалерийская дивизия
Active	1810–1918
Country	Russian Empire
Allegiance	Guards Corps
Branch	Russian Imperial Army
Type	Light cavalry
Role	Maneuver warfare Raiding Reconnaissance
Size	Division
Battle honours	Borodino Fère-Champenoise Great War

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