Guards Rifle Brigade (Russian Empire)

The Guards Rifle Brigade (Gvardeyskaya Strelkovaya Brigadya) was a seperate rifle brigade of the Imperial Russian Army that existed before and during World War I. Just before the start of World War I, the brigade was stationed in the tsar's house area near St Petersburg. Just before the war the brigade was attached to the Guard Corps.

Composition
Composition of the brigade was as follows just before mobilisation:
 * Brigade Headquarters in Tsarskoe Selo
 * 1st Guards Rifle Regiment
 * 2nd Guards Rifle Regiment
 * 3rd Guards Rifle Regiment in St Petersburg
 * 4th Guards Rifle Regiment

Commanders

 * 1872—1874 Adjutant General Major General Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich
 * 1877—1888 Lieutenant General Alexander Veniaminovich Ellis
 * 1889—1897 Lieutenant General Oscar-Ferdinand Kazimirovich Grippenberg
 * 1898—1901 Lieutenant General Alexander Alexandrovich Avreinov
 * 1908—1910 Major General Leonid Vigelmovich Lesh
 * 1910—1913 Lieutenant General Alexander A. Resin
 * 1913—???? Major General Vladimir Dmitrievich Bakulin
 * 1913—1917 Lieutenant General Pyotr Alekseevich Delesal