The 2nd Guards Cavalry Division was a Guards light cavalry division of the

Imperial Russian Army The Imperial Russian Army () was the army of the Russian Empire, active from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was organized into a standing army and a state militia. The standing army consisted of Regular army, regular troops and ...

Organisation

1857–1918: *1st Cavalry Brigade ** Horse Grenadier Life-Guards Regiment ** Her Majesty's Lancer Guards Regiment *2nd Cavalry Brigade ** Dragoon Guards Regiment ** His Majesty's Hussar Guards Regiment) *2nd Division Life-Guards Horse Artillery

Commanders

*1882–1884: Aleksandr Puzyrevskii *1886–1890: Victor Fedorovitch Winberg *1901–1905: Georgi Skalon *1906–1909: Aleksei Brusilov *1912-1914: Georgy Ottonovich Rauch

Commanders of the 1st Brigade

*1913–1914: Sergei Belosselsky-Belozersky

Commanders of the 2nd Brigade

*1873–1874: Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov *1896–1898: Sergei Vasilchikov

Chiefs of Staff

*1866–1875: Kazimir Vasilevich Levitsky *1902: Andrei Zayonchkovski *1909—1914 : Afrikan P. Bogaewsky

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:2nd Guards Cavalry Division (Russian Empire) Guards cavalry divisions of the Russian Empire Military units and formations established in 1810 Military units and formations disestablished in 1918 Saint Petersburg Governorate