During the

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, the 3rd Guard

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division in the

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consisted of four

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s: the Litovsky Guards Regiment (Leib-Gvardii Litovskii Polk),

Kexholm Priozersk (russian: Приозе́рск; fi, Käkisalmi; sv, Kexholm) is a town and the administrative center of Priozersky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the northwestern shore of Lake Ladoga, at the estuary of the northern a ...

Guards Regiment (Leib-Gvardii Keksgol'mskii Polk),

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 ...

Guards Regiment (Leib-Gvardii Petersburgskii Polk), and the

Volhynian Guard Regiment The Volinsky Lifeguard Regiment (russian: Волынский лейб-гвардии полк), more correctly translated as the Volhynian Life-Guards Regiment, was a Russian Imperial Guard infantry regiment. Created out of a single battalion o ...

(Leib-Gvardii Volynskii Polk).

Commanders

*1837–1841: Alexei Arbuzov *1841–1846:

Alexander von Moller Alexander Fedorovich von Moller (1796–1862) was an Imperial Russian division commander. He took in the suppression of the uprising in Poland. Awards * Order of Saint George, 4th degree, 1833 * Order of Saint Stanislaus (House of Romanov), 1s ...

*1846: Vasily Ovander *1877–1887: Victor Deziderjevich Dandevill *1898–1901: Konstantin Alexandrovich Weiss *1901–1904: Alexander Meller-Zakomelsky *1908–1910:

Yakov Schkinsky Yakov Federovich Shkinsky (4 June 1858 – 22 April 1938) was an Imperial Russian division and corps commander. He fought in the wars against the Ottoman Empire and the Empire of Japan. After the October Revolution, he fought against the Bolshevik ...

*1916–1917: Alexander K. Bukovsky

Chiefs of Staff

*1863–1866: Vasilij Ivanovitch Janovskij

Commanders of the 1st Brigade

*1891–1895: Konstantin Alexandrovich Weiss

Commanders of the 2nd Brigade

*1909–1910: Alexander Alexeyevich Resin

Commanders of the Artillery Brigade

*1833–1835: von Korff *1869–1877: Yakov Ovander Russian Imperial Guard Infantry divisions of the Russian Empire {{russia-hist-stub