The corps was formed on 19 February 1877 in the Moscow Military District. Its headquarters was located at Smolensk before World War I. The corps fought in World War I. It was destroyed in East Prussia in late 1917 or early 1918.
Organization
On 18 July 1914, the corps included the following units.[1]
^Likhotvorik, Alexey (4 April 2015). "Московский военный округ состав" [Structure of the Moscow Military District]. grwar.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 1 March 2017.
Bibliography
Zaleski, Konstantin (2000). Первая мировая война. Правители и военачальники. Биографический энциклопедический словарь [World War I: Rulers and Generals: Biographical Encyclopedic Dictionary] (in Russian). Moscow: Veche. ISBN5-7838-0627-7.