The Caucasus Cavalry Division (russian: Кавказская кавалерийская дивизия, ''Kavkazskaya Kavaleriiskaya Diviziya'') was a
cavalry
Historically, cavalry (from the French word ''cavalerie'', itself derived from "cheval" meaning "horse") are soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback. Cavalry were the most mobile of the combat arms, operating as light cavalry ...
formation of the
Russian Imperial 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 ...
.
Organization
1914
*1st Brigade (Tiflis)
**16th Dragoon Tver his Imperial Highness the Heir Tsarevich Regiment
**17th Dragoon Regiment, his Majesty the Nizhny Novgorod
*2 Brigade (Tiflis)
**18th Dragoon Seversky King Christian IX the Danish Regiment
**1-St Sunzhensko-Vladikavkaz General Sleptsova Terek Cossack Army Regiment
Caucasian mountain equestrian Division
*1-I Horse Mountain battery
*2-I Horse Mountain battery
1917
*1st Brigade
**16th Dragoon Regiment in Tver
**17th Dragoon Regiment of Nizhny Novgorod
*2nd Brigade
*18th Dragoon Regiment Severskiy
*1-St Hopjorskij Regiment of the Kuban Cossack voisko
Commanders
*1883–1885: Zakharii Gul'batovich Chavchavadze
*1885–1893:
Ivane Amilakhvari
Ivane Amilakhori ( ka, ივანე ამილახვარი, russian: Иван Гивич горовичАмилахвари милахори 26 January 1829 – 27 August 1905) was a Georgia (country), Georgian nobleman and a ...
*1893–1895: Tutolmin ivan fedorovitch
*1903–1906:
Louis Bonaparte (1864–1932)
Napoleon Louis Josef Jérôme Bonaparte (16 July 1864 – 14 October 1932) was a member of the Bonaparte family, a lieutenant-general in the Russian Army and governor of the province of Yerevan in 1905.
Early life
Louis Bonaparte, as he was kno ...
*1910–1915: Claes Charpentier
*1915–1917:
Sergei Belosselsky-Belozersky
Prince (Knyaz) Sergei Konstantinovich Belosselsky-Belozersky (russian: Сергей Константинович Белосельский-Белозерский) (1867–1951) was a Russian aristocrat, general and member of the International ...
*1917: Anatoli Nazarov
*1917: Aleksander Karnicki
References
{{Russian Empire Divisions
Cavalry divisions of the Russian Empire