1st Don Cossack Division explained

Unit Name:	1st Don Cossack Division
Native Name:	1-я Донская казачья дивизия
Dates:	1875-1918
Branch:	Russian Imperial Army
Battles:	World War I Battle of the Vistula River

The 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]

In 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.^[2]

Order of battle in 1914

The division included the following.^[3]

• 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
• 9 December 1893 — 20 August 1898 — Major General
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 22 October 1917 — ? — Colonel
• 9 September 1916 - 22 October 1917 — Major General Boris Rostislavovich Khreshchatitsky

External links

• Страница на Regiment.ru

Sources

• Littauer, Vladimir. Russian Hussar. p. 220. .
• Albert Seaton, page 27 "The Cossacks", SBN 85045 116 7

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1-я Донская казачья дивизия . 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.
2. Book: 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.
3. Book: General Staff, War Office . 1914 . Handbook of the Russian Army . Imperial War Museum . London . 0-89839-250-0 . 161 .