The 2nd Guards Infantry Division was a division of the
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar ...
. Before mobilisation for
World War I, the division was based in
St-Petersburg under the Guards Corps, also headquartered in
St-Petersburg.
Organisation
(Titles in English)
Organisation of the division just before mobilisation for
World War I;
* Divisional Headquarters and Staff
* 1st Brigade
** Brigade Headquarters and Staff
**
The Moscow Life Guards Regiment
**
Life Grenadier Guards
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* 2nd Brigade
** Brigade Headquarters and Staff
**
Pavlovski Life Guard Grenadiers
**
Finnish Life Guards Regiment
Finliandsky Guard Regiment (russian: Финляндский лейб-гвардии полк) was a Russian Imperial Guard infantry regiment.
Campaigns
* 1807–1813 – Napoleonic Wars
* 1828–1829 – Russo-Turkish War
* 1831 – Polish camp ...
* 2nd Guards Artillery Brigade
** Regiment Headquarters and Staff
** 1st Division (battalion)
** 2nd Division (battalion)
Commanders
* 1855–1857: Alexander von Wrangel
* 1858–1860: KA Belgard
* 1878–1881: Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov
* 1881–1885: Timofeyev
* 1891–1895: Stepan Vasilyevich Rykachev
* 1897–1899:
Richard Troyanovich Meves
* 1900–1904: Nikolay F Meshetich
* 1905–1906:
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 Ukr ...
* 1906–1907: Ivan Romanenko
* 1907–1908: Adlerberg
* 1908–1910: Mikhnevich
* 1910–1912:
Leonid Lesh
Leonid Vilgelmovich Lesh (Russian, Леонид Вильгельмович Леш, January 9, 1862 – August 28, 1934) was an Imperial Russian army commander. He served in China and fought in the war against the Empire of Japan.
Lesh took ove ...
* 1912–1913:
Vasily Flug
* 1913–1914: Alexander Alexeyevich Resin
Chiefs of Staff
* 1863–1865:
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 ...
* 1865–1866: Kozen
Commanders of the 1st Brigade
* 1913–1914: Kisielewski
Commanders of the 2nd Brigade
* 1893–1894:
Richard Troyanovich Meves
Commanders of the Artillery Brigade
* 1901–1904:
Arkady Nikanorovich Nishenkov
References
Infantry divisions of the Russian Empire
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