1st Guards Cavalry Division (Russian Empire)

The 1st Guards Cavalry Division was a Guards heavy cavalry division of the Imperial Russian Army.

Organization

1857–1918:

• 1st Cavalry Brigade
• Chevalier Guard Regiment
• Life Guard Horse Regiment, also called the Leib-Guard Horse Regiment or simply the Horse Guards
• 2nd Cavalry Brigade
• His Majesty's Own Cuirassier Guards Regiment,
• Her Majesty's Own Cuirassier Guards Regiment
• 3rd Cavalry Brigade
• His Majesty's Own Cossack Life-Guards Regiment
• Ataman Cossack Life-Guards Regiment of H. I. H. the Tsesarevich
• Combined Cossack Life-Guards Regiment
• 1st Life-Guards Horse Artillery Division

Each regiment comprised four squadrons (or, in Cossack regiments, four ', or "hundreds"); the colonels of the Guard regiments usually were Major-Generals in rank.