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 World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, the division was based 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 ...

under the Guards Corps, also headquartered in

Organisation

(Titles in English) Organisation of the division just before mobilisation for

; * Divisional Headquarters and Staff * 1st Brigade ** Brigade Headquarters and Staff ** The Moscow Life Guards Regiment ** Life Grenadier Guards * 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 Richard Troyanovich Meves (Ричард Троянович фон Мевес) (1839–1901) was a Lieutenant general in the Imperial Russian Army who fought in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78). Career Born in 1839, Meves studied with th ...

* 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 Uk ...

* 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 Vasily Yegorovich Flug (March 19, 1860 – December 3, 1955) was an Imperial Russian Army General of the Infantry. A career military officer, he served in the Boxer Rebellion, Russo-Japanese War, and World War I, before joining the White movemen ...

* 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:

Commanders of the Artillery Brigade

* 1901–1904:

Arkady Nikanorovich Nishenkov Arkady Nikanorovich Nishchenkov (6 March 1855 – February 1940 (russian: Аркадий Никанорович Нищенков) was an Imperial Russian general of the artillery and corps commander. He fought in the wars against the Ottoman Empi ...

References

Infantry divisions of the Russian Empire {{Russia-mil-stub