1st Guards Corps (Russian Empire)
The 1st Guards Corps (Russian: 1-й Гвардейский корпус) was a corps-level command in the Russian Imperial Army that existed in the decades leading up to and during World War I. Stationed in St Petersburg, it included some of the oldest and best known regiments of the Emperor of All Russia's Imperial Guard.
History[]
The corps was established on 20 August 1874 as the "Guard Corps" and was renamed to the 1st Guard Corps in November 1915. The corps was dissolved in 1918, though some of its members went on to join the Volunteer Army of the White movement.[1]
Organization[]
As of 1914, the corps included the following:[1]
- 1st Guards Infantry Division
- Life Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment
- Life Guards Semyonovsky Regiment
- Life Guards Izmaylovsky Regiment
- Life Guards Egersky Regiment
- 2nd Guards Infantry Division
- (until 1915: brigade)
- 1st Guards Cavalry Division
- Chevalier Guards Regiment
- 2nd Guards Cavalry Division
Commanders[]
- Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia 1831
- Friedrich von Rüdiger 1855-1856
- Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1831–1891) 1862-1864
- Alexander III of Russia 1874-1880
- Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia 1880-1881
- Pavel Andreyevich Shuvalov 1881-1885
- Duke Alexander of Oldenburg 1885-1889
- Nikolai Obolensky 1897-1898
- Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia 1898-1902
- Sergei Vasilchikov 1902-1906
- 1906-1912
- Vladimir Besobrasow (19.01.1912 — 25.08.1915)
- Vladimir Olohov (25.08.1915 - 08.12.1915)
- (08.12.1915 — 27.05.1916)
- Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (27.05.1916 — end 1916)
- Pavel Pototsky (end 1916 - 02.04.1917)
- (02.04.1917 - 07.1917)
- Vladimir May-Mayevsky (07.1917 — 01.1918)
References[]
- ^ a b Гвардейский корпус (in Russian). Ria1914.info. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
Categories:
- Corps of the Russian Empire
- Military units and formations established in 1874
- Military units and formations disestablished in 1918