The 1st Guards Corps (russian: 1-й Гвардейский корпус) was a

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-level command in the

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that existed in the decades leading up to and during

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. Stationed in

St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, it included some of the oldest and best known

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s of the

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History

The corps was established on 20 August 1874 as the "Guard Corps" and was renamed to the 1st Guard Corps in November 1915. The corps was dissolved in 1918, though some of its members went on to join the

Volunteer Army The Volunteer Army (russian: Добровольческая армия, translit=Dobrovolcheskaya armiya, abbreviated to russian: Добрармия, translit=Dobrarmiya) was a White Army active in South Russia during the Russian Civil War from ...

of the White movement.Гвардейский корпус
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Organization

As of 1914, the corps included the following: * 1st Guards Infantry Division ** Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment ** Life Guards Semyonovsky Regiment ** Life Guards Izmaylovsky Regiment ** Life Guards Egersky Regiment ** 1st Life Guards Artillery Brigade * 2nd Guards Infantry Division ** Life Guards Moscow Regiment ** Life Guards Grenadier Regiment ** Life Guards Pavlovsky Regiment ** Life Guards Finland Regiment ** 2nd Life Guards Artillery Brigade * Guards Rifle Division (until 1915: brigade) ** 1st His Majesty's Own Life Guards Rifle Regiment ** 2nd Tsarskoye Selo Life Guards Rifle Regiment ** 3rd His Majesty's Own Life Guards Rifle Regiment ** 4th Imperial Family Life Guards Rifle Regiment **

Life Guards Rifle Artillery Division Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy tran ...

* 1st Guards Cavalry Division **

Chevalier Guards Regiment The Chevalier Guard Regiment (russian: Кавалергардский полк, Kavalergardskiy polk) was a Russian heavy cavalry guard regiment, created in 1800 by the reformation of the Chevalier Guard corps, itself created in 1764 by Catherin ...

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** 2nd Life Guards Horse Artillery Division

Commanders

Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia Konstantin Pavlovich (russian: Константи́н Па́влович; ) was a grand duke of Russia and the second son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. He was the heir-presumptive for most of his elder brother Alexande ...

1831 * Friedrich von Rüdiger 1855-1856 *

Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831–1891) Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (russian: Великий князь Николай Николаевич; 8 August 1831 – 25 April 1891) was the third son and sixth child of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Alexandra Feodorovna. He may ...

1862-1864 *

Alexander III of Russia Alexander III ( rus, Алекса́ндр III Алекса́ндрович, r=Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich; 10 March 18451 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 18 ...

1874-1880 *

Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia (russian: Влади́мир Александрович; 22 April 1847 – 17 February 1909) was a son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, a brother of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and the senior Gra ...

1880-1881 *

Pavel Andreyevich Shuvalov Count Pavel Andreyevich Shuvalov (russian: Па́вел Андре́евич Шува́лов; Leipzig/ Saint Petersburg, – Yalta, ) was an Imperial Russian statesman and the brother of Count Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov. Biography Pavel A ...

1881-1885 *

Duke Alexander of Oldenburg , house =House of Holstein-Gottorp , father = Duke Peter of Oldenburg , mother = Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg , birth_date = , birth_place =St. Petersburg, Russian Empire , death_date = , ...

1885-1889 *

Nikolai Obolensky Prince Nikolai Nikolayevich Obolensky (November 10, 1833 – August 25, 1898) was an Imperial Russian division commander. He was born in what is now Ulyanovsk, Ulyanovsk Oblast. He fought in wars in the Crimea, Poland and against the Ottoman Emp ...

1897-1898 *

Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (russian: Павел Александрович; 3 October 1860 – 28 January 1919) was the sixth son and youngest child of Emperor Alexander II of Russia by his first wife, Empress Maria Alexandrov ...

1898-1902 *

Sergei Vasilchikov Sergei Illarionovich Vasilchikov (9 September 1849 – 27 August 1926) was an Imperial Russian division commander. He was born in Kiev in modern-day Ukraine. He was the son of Imperial Russian general Illarion Illarionovich Vasilchikov. He fough ...

1902-1906 *

Vladimir Danilov Vladimir may refer to: Names * Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name * Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name * Volodymyr for the Uk ...

1906-1912 * Vladimir Besobrasow (19.01.1912 — 25.08.1915) * Vladimir Olohov (25.08.1915 - 08.12.1915) * Georgi Rauch (08.12.1915 — 27.05.1916) *

(27.05.1916 — end 1916) * Pavel Pototsky (end 1916 - 02.04.1917) * Nikolai Ilkevich (02.04.1917 - 07.1917) *

Vladimir May-Mayevsky Vladimir Zenonovich May-Mayevsky KCMG (; – 30 November 1920) was a general in the Imperial Russian Army and one of the leaders of the counterrevolutionary White movement during the Russian Civil War. Biography According to Peter Kenez, V. ...

(07.1917 — 01.1918)

References

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