1st Don Cossack Division

1st Don Cossack Division
1st Don Cossack Division
1-я Донская казачья дивизия
Active	1875-1918
Country	Russian Empire
Branch	Russian Imperial Army
Engagements	World War I Battle of the Vistula River; ;

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The 1st Don Cossack Division was a Don Cossack cavalry division of the Russian Imperial Army. It was part of the 19th Army Corps in the Warsaw Military District.^[1]

In November [O.S. October] 1917, Pyotr Krasnov led regiments of the 1st Don Cossack Division towards Petrograd to stop the Bolshevik seizure of power from the Russian Provisional Government, but the attempt fell apart.^[2]

Order of battle in 1914

The division included the following.^[3]

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 Ivan Alexeyevich Andriyanov [ru]
9 December 1893 — 20 August 1898 — Major General Mitrofan Ilyich Grekov
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 Pyotr Ivanovich Grekov [ru]
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 Viktor Pavlovich Shirokov [ru]
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 Fyodor Fyodorovich Abramov [ru]
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 Pyotr Ivanovich Grekov [ru]
22 October 1917 — ? — Colonel Matvei Matveyevich Ivanov [ru]
9 September 1916 - 22 October 1917 — Major General Boris Rostislavovich Khreshchatitsky

References

^ "1-я Донская казачья дивизия". 14 August 2022. Archived from the original on 18 August 2022.
^ Cornish, Nik (2014). The Russian Army in the First World War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-84884-752-1.
^ General Staff, War Office (1914). Handbook of the Russian Army. London: Imperial War Museum. p. 161. ISBN 0-89839-250-0.

External links

Страница на Regiment.ru Archived 2016-11-08 at the Wayback Machine

Sources

Littauer, Vladimir. Russian Hussar. p. 220. ISBN 1-59048-256-5.
Albert Seaton, page 27 "The Cossacks", SBN 85045 116 7

[1] "1-я Донская казачья дивизия". 14 August 2022. Archived from the original on 18 August 2022.

[2] Cornish, Nik (2014). The Russian Army in the First World War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives. Barnsley: Pen and Sword. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-84884-752-1.

[3] General Staff, War Office (1914). Handbook of the Russian Army. London: Imperial War Museum. p. 161. ISBN 0-89839-250-0.

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