The 1st Don Cossack Division was a

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cavalry division of the

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. It was part of the 19th Army Corps in the

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. In 1917,

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led regiments of the 1st Don Cossack Division towards

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to stop the Bolshevik seizure of power from the

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, but the

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fell apart.

Order of battle in 1914

The division included the following. *1st Brigade (HQ Krasnik) **9th Don Cossack Regiment **10th Don Cossack Regiment *2nd Brigade (HQ Zamostek) **13th Don Cossack Regiment **15th Don Cossack Regiment *1st Don Cossack Artillery Division (HQ Zamostek) **6th Don Cossack Battery **7th Don Cossack Battery

Commanders

*20 April 1875 – ? - Lieutenant General, adjutant general Ivan Ivanovich Shamshev *4 September 1879 – 16 September 1883 Lieutenant Colonel (after 30 April 1880 Colonel) Konstantin Yefimovich Przhevlotsky *1 September 1889 — 20 October 1893 Lieutenant General *9 December 1893 — 20 August 1898 — Major General *10 November 1898 – 5 August 1900 - Lieutenant General David Ivanovich Orlov *18 September 1900 – 6 May 1901 - Major General Ippolit Appolovich Pozdeyev *1 February 1913 – after 1 April 1914 - Lieutenant General Aleksei Lvovich Vershinin *18 July 1914 – 15 August 1914 - Lieutenant General Aglay Dmitriyevich Kuzmin-Korovaev *15 August 1914 – 20 May 1916 - Major General (after 13 July 1915 Lieutenant General) Grigory Ivanovich Choglokov *13 June 1916 – ? - Major General *June 1917 – November 1917 - Major General Vladimir Petrovich Popov

Chiefs of Staff

*4 September 1879 - 16 July 1883 — Colonel Konstantin Yefimovich Przhevlotsky *1883 - after 1 May 1884 — Colonel Lev Matveyevich Baykov *11 May 1884 - 1887 — Colonel Vladimir Ivanovich Giber fon Greynfenfels *8 April 1887 - 2 July 1893 — Colonel Pyotr Konstantinovich Vasilyev *2 July 1893 – 4 March 1894 - Colonel Valerian Alexandrovich Karandeyev *6 March 1894 – 3 May 1898 - Colonel Mikhail Mikhailovich Pleshkov *13 June 1898 – 21 December 1899 - Colonel Eduard Karlovich von Klodt *22 February 1900 – 1 June 1904 - Colonel *28 September 1904 - 28 October 1911 — Colonel Vladimir Ivanovich Marchenko *1 December 1911 - 12 August 1913 — Colonel Dmitry Yevdokimovich Nemov *8 December 1913 – 24 March 1915 - Lieutenant Colonel (after 6 December 1914 Colonel) Aleksandr Vasilyevich Benzengr *June 1915 – 17 October 1915 - Colonel Viktor Zakharevich Savelyev *5 March 1916 - after 1 August 1916 — Colonel Vladimir Petrovich Popov *1917 - unknown - Captain Vasily Mikhailovich Azhogin

Commanders of the 1st Brigade

*7 May 1877 - 30 December 1884 — Major General Nikolai Petrovich Yanov *10 April 1885 - 26 February 1886 — Major General Ivan Vasilyevich Ilovaysky *23 July 1886 - 8 April 1890 — Major General Pyotr Alekandrovich Leonov *2 April 1890 - 22 January 1894 — Major General Vasily Nikolayevich Turchaninov *22 January 1894 - 24 January 1900 — Major General Nikolai Matveyevich Kalinin *9 March 1900 - 25 November 1904 — Major General Nikolai Petrovich Ilovaysky *7 December 1904 - 20 January 1906 — Major General Pyotr Petrovich Grekov *18 May 1906 - 17 January 1910 — Major General *17 February 1910 - 7 June 1911 — Major General Nikolai Yakovlevich Dyakov *12 July 1911 - 11 September 1913 — Major General Ivan Ivanovich Kamennov *11 September 1913 - 9 November 1913 — Major General Nikanor Arkadyevich Lashchilin *18 December 1913 - 15 February 1916 — Major General Yefim Fyodorovich Kunakov *27 April 1916 - 26 March 1917 — Colonel Ivan Ivanovich Kryukov *19 May 1917 — Colonel Ilya Maksimovich Tolokonnikov

Commanders of the 2nd Brigade

*31 August 1875 - 7 May 1877 — Major General Viktor Alekseyevich Rodionov *23 February 1878 - 2 March 1889 — Major General Grigori Fyodorovich Chernozubov *8 April 1890 - 20 June 1890 — Major General Pyotr Aleksandrovich Leonov *26 October 1890 - 19 August 1899 — Major General Nikolai Modestovich Yagodin *20 November 1899 - 12 June 1904 — Major General Ivan Andreyevich Luizov *25 June 1904 - 26 December 1911 — Major General Stepan Alekseyevich Boldyrev *14 January 1912 - 17 December 1913 — Major General Yefim Fyodorovich Kunakov *18 December 1913 - 6 October 1914 — Major General Konstantin Semyonovich Polyakov *6 October 1914 - 13 June 1916 — Major General *22 October 1917 — ? — Colonel *9 September 1916 - 22 October 1917 — Major General Boris Rostislavovich Khreshchatitsky

References

External links

Страница на Regiment.ru

Sources

* Littauer, Vladimir. Russian Hussar. p. 220. . * Albert Seaton, page 27 "The Cossacks", SBN 85045 116 7 {{Russian Empire Divisions Cossack divisions of the Russian Empire History of the Don Cossacks