Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An kafa rukunin a asali a cikin 1783 a matsayin Pavlograd Light Horse Regiment daga Dnepr da Yekaterinoslav Regiments na Pikemen, kodayake ya gano tsoffin sa zuwa kafa duka rukunin a cikin 1764. Ya zama Pavlograd Hussar Regiment a cikin 1801, kuma ya yi yaƙi a cikin Yaƙe-yaƙe na Napoleon, ya bambanta kansa a Yaƙin Schöngrabern
a lokacin Yaƙin Ƙungiya ta Uku. Har ila yau, rundunar ta yi yaƙi a Austerlitz, Eylau, da Friedland, amma sun yi aiki a wani wasan kwaikwayo na biyu a lokacin da Faransa ta mamaye Rasha, ko da yake ya yi yaƙi a yakin Berezina a karshen. Daga baya, ya shiga cikin yakin Rasha a Turai, ya yi yaƙi a Leipzig, Craonne da Saint-Dizier.