96th (Omsk) Infantry Regiment, 8th Automobile Regiment, Reserve Armored Car

[Ekendall7]

Dear People,
I am working on a single officer, Alexander Alexandrovich Ivanov, (father of the ballerina Lidiia Ivanova) who served in the 96th Omsk Infantry Regiment 1908 - 1914, then the 8th Automobile Regiment, 1914-1915, then the Reserve Armored Car Division, 1915-1917.
If anyone knows something about any of these pieces of the Tsarist Army - or has associations about any of them (for instance, is it true that armored car divisions generally supported the revolution?) - I would be grateful to receive that information.
--I am Ekendall7, on this site. 
Thank you!

[Mike]

There were no automobile regiments in the RIA. The largest automobile unit was an armored automobile division (the term division [дивизион] was used for battalion-size artillery and some other units and shouldn't be confused with the much larger infantry and cavalry divisions [дивизия]). Many armored automobile divisions, and particularly the Reserve division stationed in Oranienbaum near Petrograd, actively supported the revolution and were heavily influenced by the Bolsheviks.