1st Army Corps (Russian Empire)

1st Army Corps1-й армейский корпус 1810–1862Армейский корпус Army corps Sytin's Military Encyclopedia 1915 Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin Vasily Fedorovich Novitsky Saint Petersburg ru https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%AD/%D0%92%D0%A2/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%81 1874–1917 Russian Empire Imperial Russian Army Approximately 46,000General Staff, War Office 1996 31 Saint Petersburg HQ Napoleonic WarsRusso-Turkish War of 1877–78Russo-Japanese WarWorld War I Battle of Tannenberg Battle of Łódź (1914) Battle of the Vistula River The 1st Army Corps (ru 1-й армейский корпус) was a formation in the Imperial Russian Army that was formed in 1810 as the 1st Infantry Corps. It took part in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, and later, in August 1914, the 1st Army Corps fought as part of the Second Army in the Battle of Tannenberg. There, it was defeated by the Germans along with the rest of the Second Army. During the rest of World War I, it took part in other operations up until late 1917. Composition The following is a list of units that made up the 1st Army Corps at different points during its existence:1-й армейский корпус | 1st Army Corps regiment.ru (In Russian) 1874: 1st Cavalry Division 1903: 22nd Infantry Division 37th Infantry Division 50th Reserve Infantry Brigade 1913: 22nd Infantry Division 37th Infantry Division 1st Mortar Artillery Division 1st Saper Battalion 7th Pontoon Battalion 1914: 22nd Infantry Division 1st Brigade 85th "Vyborksky" Infantry Regiment 86th "Vilmanstranski" Infantry Regiment 2nd Brigade 87th "Neishlotski" Infantry Regiment 88th "Petrovski" Infantry Regiment 22nd Artillery Brigade 24th Infantry Division 1st Brigade 93rd "Irkutski" Infantry Regiment 94th 'Eniceiski" Infantry Regiment 2nd Brigade 95th "Krasnoyarski" Infantry Regiment 96th "Omski" Infantry Regiment 24th Artillery Brigade Commanders Officers that commanded the corps during its existence: +1st Army Corps commanders Appointed Commander Dismissed 1 November 1876 Infantry General Alexander Petrovich Barklai de-Tolli-Veimarn 19 January 1888 19 January 1888 Infantry General Mikhail Pavlovich Danilov 26 May 1896 14 June 1896 General Adjutant Feofil Egorovich Meindorf 19 December 1905 19 December 1905 Lieutenant General Nikolay Iudovich Ivanov 11 June 1906 9 November 1906 Infantry General Anton von Saltza 8 June 1908 8 June 1908 Artillery General Vladimir Nikolayevich Nikitin 11 March 1911 17 March 1911 Infantry General Leonid Artamonov 18 August 1914 August 1914 Infantry General Leonid-Otto Ottovich Sirilius ? 6 October 1914 Lieutenant General Alexander Alexandrovich Dushkevich 13 April 1916 18 April 1916 Major General Vasily Timofeyvich Gavrilov After 1 December 1916 December 1916 Lieutenant General Nikolai Ilyich Bulatov April 1917 2 April 1917 Lieutenant General Alexander Sergeyvich Lukomsky 2 June 1917 June 1917 Lieutenant General Leonid Mitrofanovich Bolhovitinov ? See also List of Imperial Russian Army formations and units Citations Sources General Staff, War Office Handbook of the Russian Army 1st Pub. 1914 1996 Imperial War Museum London 0-89839-250-0 June 2017 Category:Corps of the Russian Empire Category:Military units and formations established in 1810 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1862 Category:Military units and formations established in 1874 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1918 Category:1874 establishments in the Russian Empire Category:Military units and formations of Russia in World War I