The 12th Cavalry Division (russian: 12-я кавалерийская дивизия , ''12-ya Kavaleriiskaya Diviziya'') was a 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 A ...

Organization

*1st Cavalry Brigade **12th Regiment of Dragoons **12th Uhlan Regiment *2nd Cavalry Brigade **12th Regiment of Hussars **12th Regiment of Cossacks *12th Horse Artillery Division

Commanders

*1878–1886: Victor Fedorovitch Winberg *1886–1896: Alexander Mikhailovich Lermontov *1896–1898: David Ivanovich Orlov *1898–1899: Sergei Vasilchikov *1912-1915:

Alexey Kaledin Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin (russian: Алексе́й Макси́мович Каледи́н; 24 October 1861 – 11 February 1918) was a Don Cossack Cavalry General who led the Don Cossack White movement in the opening stages of the Russian C ...

*1915-1917:

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (, ; 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military leader and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, as Regent of Finland (1918–1919), as c ...

References

{{Russian Empire Divisions Cavalry divisions of the Russian Empire Military units and formations disestablished in 1918