The 4th Cavalry Division is a cavalry unit of the Russian Imperial Army. Entered the 6th Army Corps .
| 4th Cavalry Division | |
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| Years of existence | 1875 - 1918 |
| A country | Russian empire |
| Enters into | 6th Army Corps |
| Type of | Cavalry |
| Dislocation | Bialystok , Grodno Province |
Division History
Formation
Formed as part of two brigades (2 regiments in each) during the reorganization of the cavalry on July 20, 1875. February 19, 1877 included in the newly formed IV Army Corps and stationed in the Vilna Military District. By 1897 it was transferred to the Warsaw Military District and by September 1, 1900 it was included in the VI Army Corps.
Fighting
Participated in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878 . In April 1878 as part of the IV Corps was advanced to the Danube, replacing the 11th Cavalry Division in the village. Pelishat [1] . In the same year, the division took part in the capture of Etropolis, in the siege of Pleven, in the capture of the pass of the Brothers and the Great Mountains, in the occupation of the Balkan Pass and in the capture of the Philippopolis.
In July 1914, the division deployed on the Western border, covering the deployment of the 2nd Army [2] . As part of the same army participated in the East Prussian operation. At the first stage of the offensive, they protected the right flank of the 6th corps from the side of the Mazury lakes and maintained communication between the 6th and 6th corps [3] . On August 26, she occupied positions with Zensburg [2] . On August 29, the division received an order to advance from the region east of Ortelsburg towards Passenheim and Wartenburg. On the evening of the same day, the division advanced in two columns to Grammen (2nd brigade with two machine guns) and to Johannistal, Georgensgut and Passenheim (4th dragoon regiment with four machine guns, reinforced by the 8th horse battery). At 21:30, in the area of ββthe Davidshoff estate, the avant-garde of the 2nd Brigade was fired upon by the enemy, and after a half-hour firefight, the brigade turned on Johannistal, where it joined up with the second column. The same evening, in the Georgsgut area, the head patrols of the division discovered the presence of German infantry and artillery. The division commander, General Tolpygo, without trying to establish the forces and location of the enemy, ordered to retreat, passing Ortelsburg to Vavrohen, where the division arrived at 6:15 am on August 30 [4] [5] .
September 23, 1914 transferred to the 10th Army of the North-Western Front. May 24, 1915 transferred to the newly formed 5th Army of the North-Western Front. On August 11, 1915, when the North-Western Front was divided, it was transferred to the Northern Front, and by the summer of 1916 it became part of the reserve I cavalry corps.
Division Composition
on August 1, 1914:
- 1st Brigade ( Bialystok )
- The 4th Dragoon Novotroitsk-Yekaterinoslav General Field Marshal Prince Potemkin-Taurian Regiment
- 4th Uhlansky Kharkov regiment
- 2nd brigade ( Bialystok )
- The 4th Hussar Mariupol Field Marshal Prince Wittgenstein Regiment
- 4th Don Cossack Count Platov Regiment
- 4th Horse-Artillery Division ( Bialystok )
Division Command
Chiefs (Commanders) of the Division
- 07.27.1875 - xx, xx.1877 - Lieutenant-General Krylov, Evgeny Timofeevich
- 09/15/1877 - xh. Xx.1878 - Major General (from 04/04/1878 lieutenant general) Arnoldi, Alexander Ivanovich
- hh. hh.1888 - after June 1, 1883 - Lieutenant-General Papa-Afanasopulo, George Ilyich
- June 26, 1883 - January 7, 1892 - Major General (since August 30, 1886, Lieutenant General) Strukov, Alexander Petrovich
- January 22, 1989 - August 3, 1989 - Major General (since August 30, 1989, Lieutenant General) Timiryazev, Nikolai Arkadyevich
- September 12, 1989 - March 2, 1899 - Major General Charkovsky, Pyotr Vladimirovich
- 04/02/1899 - 04/04/1901 - Major General (since December 6, 1900 Lieutenant General) Scalon, Georgy Antonovich
- 05/07/1901 - 11/29/1903 - Lieutenant-General Sakharov, Vladimir Viktorovich
- 12/24/1903 - 11/21/1906 - Lieutenant General von Bader, Edmund Karlovich
- 12/06/1906 - 05/01/1910 - Lieutenant-General Harnack, Alexander Leontyevich
- 05/01/1910 - 06/19/1912 - Lieutenant-General Vannovsky, Boris Petrovich
- 06/22/1912 - 10/15/1914 - Lieutenant General Tolpygo, Anton Alexandrovich
- 10/15/1914 - 04/18/1917 - Lieutenant-General Vannovsky, Boris Petrovich (again)
- 04/19/1917 - 08/21/1917 - Major General Sveshnikov, Nikolai Lvovich
- 08/21/1917 - 12/30/1917 - Major General Fedorov, Alexander Ippolitovich
Division Chiefs
- July 26, 1882 - 12/19/1884 - Col. V.I. Pnevsky
- 01/07/1885 - 04/28/1887 - Colonel von Essen, Pavel Emelyanovich
- 05/28/1888 - 03/03/1894 - Colonel von Essen, Pavel Emelyanovich (again)
- 03.06.1894-10.06.1894 - Col. V.A.Karandeev
- 06.21.1894 - 02.12.1896 - Colonel Rutkovsky, Pyotr Konstantinovich
- 02.12.1896 - 03.22.1901 - Colonel Scheideman, Sergey Mikhailovich
- 05/27/1901 - 06/09/1903 - Colonel Zhegochev, Boris Konstantinovich
- 06.14.1903 - 10.24.1910 - Lieutenant Colonel (from 06.12.1903 Colonel) Martynov, Anatoly Ivanovich
- 12/24/1910 - 06/28/1912 - Colonel Kanshin, Peter Pavlovich
- 07/17/1912 - 04/16/1914 - Colonel Makhov, Mikhail Mikhailovich
- 04/21/1914 - 01/21/1915 - Colonel Linitsky, Alexander Ivanovich
- 02/20/1915 - 01/05/1916 - and. D. Lieutenant Colonel Grebenshchikov, Sergey Yakovlevich
- 01/19/1916 - 07/12/1916 - Colonel Kulzhinsky, Sergey Nikolaevich
- 08/03/1916 - 10/11/1917 - Lieutenant Colonel (Colonel from August 15, 1916) Leontyev, Mikhail Evgenievich
1st Brigade Commanders
- hh. hh.1885 - 10.10.1877 [6] - Major General Leontiev, Vladimir Nikolaevich
- 10/17/1877 - 11/23/1886 - Major General Baron Meyendorf, Nikolai Egorovich
- 1886 - ??. ??. 1889 - Major General Svita Parfyonov, Alexander Demidovich
- 05/17/1889 - after January 1, 1891 - Major General Adderkas, Vladimir Vladimirovich
- February 17, 1891β27.01.1895 - Major General A.M. Pilsudski
- 03.03.1895 - 01.30.1902 - Major General von Bader, Edmund Karlovich
- 03/10/1902 - 03/02/1904 - Major General von Kruzenshtern, Nikolai Fedorovich
- February 4, 1904 - December 2, 1904 - Major General Prince Myshetsky, Pyotr Nikolayevich
- 09.12.1904 - 04.12.1907 - Major General Savenkov, Fedor Andreevich
- 12/06/1907 - 12/31/1913 [7] - Major General Krasovsky, Bronislav Ivanovich
- 12/31/1913 - after July 10, 1916 - Major General Kayander, Yevgeny Fedorovich
Commanders of the 2nd Brigade
- hh.hh.1755 - after 04/01/1880 - Major General Makarov, Pavel Pavlovich
- 05/29/1880 - 07/14/1888 - Major General Rebinder, Alexander Maksimovich
- July 14, 1883 - August 10, 1888 - Major-General Khrushchev, Pyotr Nikolayevich
- August 10, 1885 - July 26, 1895 - Major General Baronch, Alexander Antonovich
- July 31, 1895-19.08.1896 - Major General A.A. Beckendorf
- 11/13/1896 - 05/29/1897 - Major General Dubensky, Alexander Nikolaevich
- June 12, 1989 - April 11, 1905 - Major General Nikolai Nikolayevich
- 05/20/1905 - 04/20/1906 - Major General Maynard, Walter Walterovich
- 04/20/1906 - 10/03/1906 - Major-General Gurko, Vasily Iosifovich
- 03.10.1906 - 04.07.1907 - Major General Medvedev, Nikolai Alexandrovich
- 12/06/1907 - 05/29/1910 - Major General Tolpygo, Anton Alexandrovich
- 05/29/1910 - 08/01/1913 [8] - Major General Falkovsky, Ivan Amvrosevich
- 08/30/1913 - 06/06/1915 - Major General Martynov, Anatoly Ivanovich
- 06.06.1915-14.04.1917 - Major General A.A.Budberg
- 04.14.1917-27.06.1917 - Colonel V.M. Pulevich
- 08/22/1917 - Major General VP Krug
Commanders of the 4th Cavalry Artillery Division
06.05.1895-30.09.1898 - Colonel Shepelev-Voronovich
10.22.1898-21.11.1901 - Colonel L.N.Sukhin
12/24/1901-18.05.1905 - Colonel Ye.G. Przhedpelsky
- 06.27.1905 - 03.07.1907 - Colonel von Gyllenschmidt, Alexander Fedorovich
- 07/18/1907 - 05/26/1908 - Colonel Kilchen, Sergey Sergeevich
- 06/18/1908 - 1/13/1914 - Colonel Zakharchenko, Ivan Alexandrovich
- 01/13/1914 - 02.22.1916 - Col. V.K.Latukhin
- 05/04/1916 - 02/24/1917 - Colonel Levitsky, Alexander Alexandrovich
- 04/28/1917 - Colonel Passek, Vasily Vasilyevich
Famous people serving in the division
- Semyon Tymoshenko - In 1915 he graduated from the regimental and exemplary machine-gun school. He participated in the First World War , was a machine gunner as part of the 4th Cavalry Division on the South-Western and Western Fronts . Awarded for his bravery by the crosses of St. George (soldier's "Egor") of three degrees.
Notes
- β E. A. Albovsky. History of the Kharkov regiment (Minsk, 1897), p. 402.
- β 1 2 Kersnovsky A. A. History of the Russian Army
- β Kolenkovsky A. Maneuvering period of the first world imperialist war of 1914
- β ANPEAU MU OSR NRUNDU OPNDKFEMHE YAPYUFEMH B ZEMPPY 29 Yubytssyaryu (4). HYARNPHWAYIHE GYULERICH MJEH HARNPHH
- β At the end of the operation gene. Tolpygo was removed from command for his passivity.
- β He died in office, excluded from the lists of the deceased VP 17.10.1877.
- β VP 31/12/1913 promoted to lieutenant general with dismissal on age qualification with uniform and pension.
- β VP 08/01/1913 dismissed from the age qualification service of the rank of lieutenant general with his uniform and pension.
Literature
- Kersnovsky, Anton Antonovich. History of the Russian army, in 4 tt. ISBN 5-7117-0180-0 , 978-5-7117-0180-4, 5-7117-0059-6, 978-5-7117-0059-3
- A. Kolenkovsky. The Maneuvering Period of the First World Imperialist War of 1914. M .: Voenizdat NKO USSR, 1940.
Sovazh, S. I. The Russian Imperial Army: 16 visual tabl. uniforms / S. Sovazh. - SPb. : Printing house of the public benefit association, 1894. - p. XIII, 155. - 59 p.