Caucasus Cavalry Division (Russian Empire) Explained

Unit Name:	Caucasus Cavalry Division
Native Name:	Кавказская кавалерийская дивизия
Dates:	1914
Branch:	Russian Imperial Army
Role:	Cavalry
Battles:	World War I Battle of Łódź (1914)

The Caucasus Cavalry Division (Russian: Кавказская кавалерийская дивизия, Kavkazskaya Kavaleriiskaya Diviziya) was a cavalry formation of the Russian Imperial Army.^[1]

Organization

1914

• 1st Brigade (Tiflis)
  • 16th Dragoon Tver his Imperial Highness the Heir Tsarevich Regiment
  • 17th Dragoon Regiment, his Majesty the Nizhny Novgorod
• 2 Brigade (Tiflis)
  • 18th Dragoon Seversky King Christian IX the Danish Regiment
  • 1-St Sunzhensko-Vladikavkaz General Sleptsova Terek Cossack Army Regiment

Caucasian mountain equestrian Division

• 1-I Horse Mountain battery
• 2-I Horse Mountain battery

1917

• 1st Brigade
  • 16th Dragoon Regiment in Tver
  • 17th Dragoon Regiment of Nizhny Novgorod
• 2nd Brigade
• 18th Dragoon Regiment Severskiy
• 1-St Hopjorskij Regiment of the Kuban Cossack voisko

Commanders

• 1883–1885: Zakharii Gul'batovich Chavchavadze
• 1885–1893: Ivane Amilakhvari
• 1893–1895: Tutolmin ivan fedorovitch
• 1903–1906: Louis Bonaparte (1864–1932)
• 1910–1915: Claes Charpentier
• 1915–1917: Sergei Belosselsky-Belozersky
• 1917: Anatoli Nazarov
• 1917: Aleksander Karnicki

Notes and References

1. Web site: THE RUSSIAN ARMY, 1914 . Conrad . Mark . 2001 . 8 January 2017.