The 1st Don Cossack Division was a Don Cossack cavalry division of the Russian Imperial Army.
It was part of the 19th Army Corps in the Warsaw Military District.
October] 1917, Pyotr Krasnov led regiments of the 1st Don Cossack Division towards Petrograd to stop the Bolshevik seizure of power from the Russian Provisional Government, but the attempt fell apart.
[2] The division included the following.
[3] January 1917: 5 • 6 • 2nd Caucasus