1st Don Cossack Division

The 1st Don Cossack Division was a Don Cossack cavalry division of the Russian Imperial Army.[1]

1st Don Cossack Division
1-я Донская казачья дивизия
Active1875-1918
Country Russian Empire
Branch Russian Imperial Army
Engagements

Organization
  • 1st Brigade
    • 9th General-Adjutant Count Orlov-Denisov's Don Cossack Regiment
    • 10th General Lukovkin's Don Cossack Regiment
  • 2nd Brigade
    • 13th General-Field Marshal Prince Kutuzov of Smolensk's Don Cossack Regiment
    • 15th General Krasnov 1's Don Cossack Regiment

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 22 October 1917 — ? — Colonel Matvei Matveyevich Ivanov
  • 9 September 1916 - 22 October 1917 — Major General Boris Rostislavovich Khreshchatitsky

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

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