Everything about The Savage Division totally explained
The
Savage Division or
Wild Division was a
Cavalry Division of the
Imperial Russian Army composed of
Muslims recruited from
Chechnia and
Daghestan and from the
Turcoman tribes of
Transcaspia.
It took part in
World War I, commanded by the Russian general,
Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov, brother of
Tsar Nicholas II.
During the
Russian Revolution of 1917 the Savage Division remained loyal to the
Russian provisional government.
Division commander General
Aleksandr Krymov and his officers reacted to a supposed insurgency by
German agents in
Petrograd by relocating from the war front to
Petrograd during the
Kornilov affair. However, Muslim delegates of the
Petrograd Soviet, nominal members of the
Russian Constituent Assembly, arrived at the Division directly from the capital and not only dispelled rumors of rebellion, but also demonstrated with documents that General Krymov himself was a rebel leading his troops against the government.
Among these
delegates were some well-known Muslims, such as the grandson of
Imam Shamil. For that reason, they were not arrested, a decision that went against Krymov‘s officers' wishes. Such an arrest would have been a violation of
Chechen and
Dagestani customs of hospitality. Unable to fulfill his order, Division commander Krymov committed suicide.
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