Organization
The final composition of the Russian Imperial Guard at the beginning of 1914 was:
Guards Corps St. Petersburg District. Headquarters, St. Petersburg, Millionaya. (Guards units not part of the Guards Corps were the Guards Replacement Cavalry Regiment and Guards Field Gendarme Squadron.)
- 1st Guards Infantry Division. Headquarters, St. Petersburg, Fontanka
- 1st Brigade: Life-Guards Preobrazhensky Regiment, Life-Guards Semenovsky Regiment
- 2nd Brigade: Life-Guards Izmailovsky Regiment, Life-Guards Egersky Regiment
- 1st Life-Guards Artillery Brigade
- 2nd Guards Infantry Division. Headquarters, St. Petersburg, Fontanka
- 1st Brigade: Life-Guards Moskovsky Regiment, Life-Guards Grenadier Regiment
- 2nd Brigade: Life-Guards Pavlovsky Regiment, Life-Guards Finliandsky Regiment
- 2nd Life-Guards Artillery Brigade
- 1st Guards Cavalry Division. Headquarters, St. Petersburg, Fontanka
- 1st Brigade: Her Sovereign Majesty Empress Maria Theodorovna's Chevalier Guard Regiment, Life-Guards Horse Regiment
- 2nd Brigade: His Majesty's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment, Her Majesty Empress Maria Theodorovna's Life-Guards Cuirassier Regiment
- 3rd Brigade: His Majesty's Life-Guards Cossack Regiment, His Imperial Highness the Sovereign Heir and Tsesarevich's Life-Guards Ataman Regiment, Life-Guards Combined Cossack Regiment, 1st His Majesty's Ural Sotnia, 2nd Orenburg Sotnia, 3rd Combined Sotnia, 4th Amur Sotnia
- 1st Division of Life-Guards Horse-Artillery Brigade
- 2nd Guards Cavalry Division. Headquarters, St. Petersburg, Fontanka
- 1st Brigade: Life-Guards Horse-Grenadier Regiment, Her Majesty Empress Alexandra Theodorovna's Life-Guards Lancer Regiment
- 2nd Brigade: Life-Guards Dragoon Regiment, His Majesty's Life-Guards Hussar Regiment
- 2nd Division of Life-Guards Horse-Artillery Brigade
- Guards Rifle Brigade. Headquarters, St. Petersburg, Fontanka
- Life-Guards 1st His Majesty's Rifle Regiment
- Life-Guards 2nd Tsarskoe-Selo Rifle Regiment
- Life-Guards 3rd His Majesty's Rifle Regiment
- Life-Guards 4th The Imperial Family's Rifle Regiment
- Guards Rifle Artillery Battalion
- Life-Guards Horse Artillery
- Guards Howitzer Artillery Battalion
- Life-Guards Sapper Battalion
- Guards Aviation Company
Plus the following were part of the 23rd Army Corps, Warsaw Military District. Headquarters, Warsaw, Poland.
- 3rd Guards Infantry Division. Headquarters, Warsaw.
- 1st Brigade: Life-Guards Lithuania Regiment, Emperor of Austria's Life-Guards Kexholm Regiment
- 2nd Brigade: King Frederick-William III's Life-Guards St.-Petersburg Regiment, Life-Guards Volynski Regiment
- 3rd Life-Guards Artillery Brigade
- 2nd Infantry Division
- Separate Guards Cavalry Brigade
- 3rd Battery of Life-Guards Horse Artillery
- 23rd Howitzer Artillery Battalion
- 9th Sapper Battalion
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