Collection of Information about the Knights of St. George. and Combat Insignia of the Caucasian Troops

The present edition is an organic part of the multi-year program of studying the fighting unit, organizing and developing the regular troops of the Russian imperial army in the Caucasus, held military-historical department at the headquarters of the Caucasus Military District. A number of studies on this topic have been placed on our website. This study is well-known historian of Russia's war in the Caucasus, Major General Retired AL Gizetti that for a long time engaged in the study of this topic is divided into two parts by the author. Listed in the first part of the information about the cavalry, received the Order of St. George for military service during the fighting in the Caucasus, were gathered from the decrees of the Emperor's decrees St. George Dumas, war diary, award presentations, were among the archive documents of Staff of the Caucasian Military District and Military Scientific archive of the General Staff. In the second part of the work shows the combat insignia, granted part of the Russian troops who served in the Caucasus, as well as armed groups created from representatives of different peoples of the Caucasus. The book contains information about rewardings Russian soldiers and commanders of the Order of St. George's successes in the combat operations in the Caucasus since the establishment of the highest military award in 1774 until the 1880s. For more than a century of all awards were granted this highest military order 536 people. Among them, the first and second degree were awarded the Order of Commanders Russian troops in the Caucasus, General Field Marshal Count Paskevich-Erivan and the Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich.