1st Don Cossack Division

1st Don Cossack Division 1-я Донская казачья дивизия 1875-1918 Russian Empire 20px Russian Imperial Army World War I Battle of the Vistula RiverThe 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-я Донская казачья дивизия https://web.archive.org/web/20220814071525/http://regiment.ru/upr/B/3/DKD/dkd-1.htm https://web-archive-org.translate.goog/web/20220814071525/http://regiment.ru/upr/B/3/DKD/dkd-1.htm?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp 18 August 2022 14 August 2022 In November 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.Cornish Nik 2014 The Russian Army in the First World War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives Barnsley Pen and Sword 978-1-84884-752-1 134 Order of battle in 1914 The division included the following.General Staff, War Office 1914 1996 6th Handbook of the Russian Army Imperial War Museum London 0-89839-250-0 161 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 Andiyanov ru Андриянов, Иван Алексеевич Ivan Alexeyevich Andriyanov 9 December 1893 — 20 August 1898 — Major General Mitrofan Ilyich Grekov ru Греков, Митрофан Ильич 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 Grekov ru Греков, Пётр Иванович Pyotr Ivanovich Grekov 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 Shirokov ru Широков, Виктор Павлович Viktor Pavlovich Shirokov 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 Абрамов, Фёдор Фёдорович 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 Grekov ru Греков, Пётр Иванович Pyotr Ivanovich Grekov 22 October 1917 — ? — Colonel Matvei Ivanov ru Иванов, Матвей Матвеевич (1872) Matvei Matveyevich Ivanov 9 September 1916 - 22 October 1917 — Major General Boris Rostislavovich Khreshchatitsky References External links Страница на Regiment.ru https://web.archive.org/web/20161108105458/http://www.regiment.ru/upr/B/3/DKD/dkd-1.htm 2016-11-08 Sources Littauer, Vladimir. Russian Hussar. p. 220. 1-59048-256-5. Albert Seaton, page 27 "The Cossacks", SBN 85045 116 7 Category:Cossack divisions of the Russian Empire Category:History of the Don Cossacks