Chevalier Guard Regiment

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Chevalier Guard Regiment
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Chevalier Guard Regiment in the Battle of Austerlitz
Active 1800-1918
Country Russian Empire
Branch Russian Imperial Guard
Type Heavy cavalry
Size Regiment
Part of 1st Guard Cavalry division
Garrison/HQ St. Petersburg

The Chevalier Guard Regiment (Russian: Кавалергардский полк) was a Russian heavy cavalry guard regiment, created in 1800 by the reformation of the Chevalier Guard corps, itself created in 1764 by Catherine the Great.[1] As other Russian heavy cavalry guard regiments (the Life-Guards Horse Regiment, His Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment, and Her Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment), the Chevalier Guards were equipped as cuirassiers (with some differences in uniform and equipment from army cuirassiers and other guard cuirassier regiments).[2]

Campaigns

The regiment was disbanded in 1918.

Many famous men served as Chevalier Guards including Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, Grigory Potemkin, Denis Davydov, Mikhail Skobelev, Alexander Rodzyanko, Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim and Alexander Ypsilantis.

Gallery

Officers of the Chevalier Guard. In left (1–2) is Carl Mannerheim 
Military uniform, 1914. Her Majesty Empress Marie Theorodovna Chevalier Guards regiment 
Officer's cuirass from the Chevalier Guard Regiment, 1880 
This painting by Bogdan Willewalde depicts the meeting of officers of the Russian Guards cavalry with the residents of one of the European cities in 1813–1814. It depicts (left - right) officer of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, chief- and staff officers of the Life Guards Horse Regiment, chief-officers of the Life Guards Uhlan and Chevalier Guard Regiments. In the background can be seen the lower ranks of the Life Guards Hussar and one of the Army Cuirassier Regiments. 

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