The 1st Grenadier Division was a

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unit in 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 ...

. It was headquartered at Moscow and participated in the Baranovichi Offensive.

Organization

* 1st Brigade * 2nd Brigade * Artillery Brigade

Commanders

* 1854–1855:

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* 1875–1878: Christopher Roop * 1891–1898: Vodar

Chiefs of Staff

* 1891–1895: Alexander G Sandetsky * 1902–1904: Pantalejmon Simanski * 1915–1917:

Vladimir Yegoryev Vladimir Nikolayevich Yegoryev (russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Его́рьев; March 16, 1869 – September 20, 1948) was a military commander and military expert of the Russian Empire, Russian SFSR, and Soviet Uni ...

Commanders of the 1st Brigade

* 1845–1848:

* 1913–1914:

Commanders of the 2nd Brigade

* 1831–1832: Mikhail Grigoryevich Brajko * 1878–1881: Mikhail Batyanov * 1890–1894: Grigory Vasilyevich Kryukov * 1905:

Vladimir Gorbatovsky Vladimir Nikolayevich Gorbatovsky (russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Горбато́вский, May 26, 1851 – July 30, 1924) was an Imperial Russian army commander. He fought in the wars against the Ottoman Empire and the Emp ...

Commanders of the Artillery Brigade

* 1907–1908: Nikolai Ilyich Bulatov

References

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