1st Guards Cavalry Division (Russian Empire)

The 1st Guards Cavalry Division was a Guards heavy cavalry division of the Imperial Russian Army.

Organization
1857–1918: All the regiments were made of 4 squadrons (sotnyas — hundreds — in Cossack regiments) with the colonels of the regiments usually having a rank of Major-General.
 * 1st Cavalry Brigade
 * Chevalier Guard Regiment
 * Horse Guard Regiment
 * 2nd Cavalry Brigade
 * His Majesty's Own Cuirassier Guards Regiment,
 * Her Majesty's Own Cuirassier Guards Regiment
 * 3rd Cavalry Brigade
 * His Majesty's Own Cossack Life-Guards Regiment
 * Ataman Cossack Life-Guards Regiment of H. I. H. the Tsesarevich
 * Combined Cossack Life-Guards Regiment
 * 1st Life-Guards Horse Artillery Division