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Organisation

1857–1918: *1st Cavalry Brigade **

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t *2nd Cavalry Brigade ** Dragoon Guards Regiment ** His Majesty's

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Guards Regiment) *2nd Division Life-Guards Horse Artillery

Commanders

*1882–1884: Aleksandr Puzyrevskii *1886–1890:

Victor Fedorovitch Winberg Victor Fedorovitch Winberg (16 June 1832 – unattested date) was an Imperial Russian division commander. He was the father of Fyodor Viktorovich Vinberg. He participated in the suppression of the 1863 uprising in Poland as well as the war again ...

*1901–1905: Georgi Skalon *1906–1909:

Aleksei Brusilov Aleksei Alekseyevich Brusilov ( rus, Алексе́й Алексе́евич Бруси́лов, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪdʑ brʊˈsʲiɫəf; – 17 March 1926) was a Russian and later Soviet general most noted for the developme ...

*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 Kazimir Vasilyevich Levitsky (February 1835 – November 22, 1890) was an Imperial Russian general and division commander. He took part in the war against the Ottoman Empire. Awards * Order of Saint George, 4th degree, 1877 * Order of Saint Stani ...

*1902:

Andrei Zayonchkovski Andrei Medardovich Zayonchkovsky (russian: Андре́й Меда́рдович Зайончко́вский) ( – 22 March 1926) commanded the defence of the Romanian-Bulgarian border in Dobruja upon Romania's entry into World War I in August ...

*1909—1914 :

Afrikan P. Bogaewsky Afrikan Petrovich Bogaewsky ( rus, Африка́н Петро́вич Богае́вский), 8 January 1873, in Stanitsa Kamenskaya – October 1934, in Paris), from the Don Cossacks family of Bogaewskich. He was a Lieutenant General of the I ...

References

Russian Imperial Guard Cavalry divisions of the Russian Empire Military units and formations established in 1810 Military units and formations disestablished in 1918 {{russia-hist-stub