Order of battle of the Imperial Russian Army (1812)

The Imperial Russian Army in June 1812 consisted of three main armies and other military formations. The Commander in Chief of the Army was Emperor Alexander I.

First Western Army

General of the Infantry Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly^[1]

1st Infantry Corps:^[2] Lieutenant General Count Peter Wittgenstein


Division	Brigade	Regiment
5th Infantry Major General Gregor von Berg	1st	Sevsk Grenadier
	1st	Kaluga Infantry
	2nd	Perm Infantry
	2nd	Mogilev Infantry
	3rd	23rd Jäger
	3rd	24th Jäger
14th Infantry Maj. Gen. Ivan Sazonov	1st	Tula Infantry
	1st	Navaginsky Infantry
	2nd	Riga Infantry
	2nd	Tenginsky Infantry
	3rd	25th Jäger
	3rd	26th Jäger

Corps Artillery: Nine companies, two pontoon and one pioneer companies
1st Cavalry Division: Major General Pyotr Kahovskiy
- 1st and 5th Cavalry Brigades
  - Riga and Yamburg Dragoon Regiments, Grodno Hussar Regiment and three Cossack Regiments

2nd Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Karl Gustav von Baggovut

Division	Brigade	Regiment
4th Infantry Major General Duke Eugene of Württemberg	1st	Kremenchug Infantry
	1st	Minsk Infantry
	2nd	Tobolsk Infantry
	2nd	Volhynia Infantry
	3rd	4th Jäger
	3rd	34th Jäger
17th Infantry Maj. Gen. Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev	1st	Ryazan Infantry
	1st	Belozersk Infantry
	2nd	Brest Infantry
	2nd	Villmanstrand Infantry
	3rd	30th Jäger
	3rd	48th Jäger

Corps Artillery: Seven companies
Elizabethgrad Hussar Regiment

3rd Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Nikolai Tuchkov

Division	Brigade	Regiment
1st Grenadier Major General Count Pavel Stroganov	1st	Life Grenadiers
	1st	Arakcheyev Grenadier
	2nd	Pavlovsky Grenadier
	2nd	Yekaterinoslav Grenadier
	3rd	Saint Petersburg Grenadier
	3rd	Taurida Grenadier
3rd Infantry Maj. Gen. Pyotr Konovnitsyn	1st	Reval Infantry
	1st	Murom Infantry
	2nd	Chernigov Infantry
	2nd	Koporye Infantry
	3rd	20th Jäger
	3rd	21st Jäger

Corps Artillery: Eight companies
Life Guard Cossack Regiment and one Cossack regiment

4th Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Count Pavel Shuvalov

Division	Brigade	Regiment
11th Infantry Major General Nikolai Bakhmetiev	1st	Kexholm Infantry
	1st	Pernau Infantry
	2nd	Polotsk Infantry
	2nd	Yelets Infantry
	3rd	1st Jäger
	3rd	33rd Jäger
23rd Infantry Maj. Gen. Alexey Bakhmetiev	1st
	1st
	2nd
	2nd
	3rd
	3rd

Corps Artillery: Six companies

5th Reserve Guards Infantry Corps: Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia

Division	Brigade	Life Guards Regiment
Guard Infantry Major General Aleksey Yermolov	1st Guards Infantry	Preobrazhensky
	1st Guards Infantry	Semyonovsky
	2nd Guards Infantry	Izmailovsky
	2nd Guards Infantry	Lithuanian
	3rd Guards Infantry	Finnish
	3rd Guards Infantry	Jager
1st Combined Grenadier^[3]	1st	26 combined grenadier battalions
	2nd
	3rd
1st Cuirassier Major General Nikolay Depreradovich	1st Cuirassier	Chevalier Guard
	1st Cuirassier	Life Guard Horse
	2nd Cuirassier	Emperor Life Guard
		Empress Life Guard
		Astrakhan Cuirassier

Corps Artillery: Four foot and two horse companies, one pioneer company

6th Infantry Corps: General of infantry Dmitry Dokhturov

Division	Brigade	Regiment
7th Infantry Major General Peter Kaptzevich	1st	Moscow Infantry
	1st	Pskov Infantry
	2nd	Libau Infantry
	2nd	Sofia Infantry
	3rd	11th Jäger
	3rd	36th Jäger
24th Infantry Major General Pyotr Likhachyov	1st	Ufa Infantry
	1st	Shirvan Infantry
	2nd	Butyrsky Infantry
	2nd	Tomsk Infantry
	3rd	19th Jäger
	3rd	40th Jäger

Corps Artillery: Seven companies
Sumy Hussar Regiment

1st Reserve Cavalry Corps: General aide-de-camp Fyodor Uvarov
- 1st Guards Cavalry Brigade
  - Life Guard Dragoon, Life Guard Hussar and Life Guard Uhlan Regiments
- Brigade
  - Kazan and Nezhin Dragoon Regiments
- Corps Artillery: One company
2nd Reserve Cavalry Corps: General aide-de-camp Baron Fyodor Korf
- 6th Cavalry Brigade
  - Pskov and Moscow Dragoon Regiments
- 7th Cavalry Brigade
  - Kargopol^[4] and Ingermanland Dragoon Regiments
- Brigade
  - Izyum Hussar and Polish Uhlan Regiments
- Corps Artillery: One company
3rd Reserve Cavalry Corps: Major General Count Peter Petrovich Pahlen
- Brigade
  - Courland and Orenburg Dragoon Regiments
- Brigade
  - Siberia and Irkutsk Dragoon Regiments
- Brigade
  - Mariupol Hussar Regiment
- Corps Artillery: One company
Artillery Reserve: Count Kutaisov
- 21 foot and five horse artillery companies
Flying Cossack Corps: General of Cavalry Count Matvei Platov

Source: Pivka, Otto von (1979). Armies of the Napoleonic Era. New York, N.Y.: Taplinger Publishing. pp. 216–217. ISBN 0-8008-5471-3.
Source: Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. p. 391. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.

Second Western Army

General of the Infantry Prince Pyotr Bagration

7th Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Nikolay Raevsky
- 12th Infantry Division: Major General Illarion Vasilievich Vasilchokov
  - 1st Brigade
    - Smolensk and Narva Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Aleksopol and New Ingermanland Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 6th and 41st Jäger Regiments
- 26th Infantry Division: Major General Ivan Paskevich
  - 1st Brigade
    - Ladoga and Poltava Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Nizhny Novgorod and Oryol Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 3rd, 5th and 42nd Jäger Regiments
- Corps Artillery: Unknown
8th Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Mikhail Borozdin
- 2nd Grenadier Division: Major General Prince Karl von Mecklenburg
  - 1st Grenadier Brigade
    - Crimea and Moscow Grenadier Regiments
  - 2nd Grenadier Brigade
    - Astrakhan and Phanagoria Grenadier Regiments
  - 3rd Grenadier Brigade
    - Siberia and Little Russia Grenadier Regiments
- 27th Infantry Division: Major General Dmitry Petrovich Neverovsky
  - 1st Brigade
    - Odessa and Zhitomir (or Tarnopol) Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Vilna and Simbirsk Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 49th and 50th Jäger Regiments
- 3rd Grenadier Division
  - 22 combined grenadier battalions
- Corps Artillery: Five companies
- 2nd Cuirassier Division: Major General Ilya Mikhailovich Duka
  - 2nd Cavalry Brigade
    - Yekaterinoslav and Military Order Cuirassier Regiments
  - 3rd Cavalry Brigade
    - Glukhov, Little Russia and Novgorod Cuirassier Regiments
4th Reserve Cavalry Corps: Major General Count Karl Sivers
- 12th Cavalry Brigade
  - Kharkov and Chernigov Dragoon Regiments
- 13th Cavalry Brigade
  - Kiev and New Russian Dragoon Regiments
- Cavalry Brigade
  - Akhtyrka Hussar and Lithuanian Uhlan Regiments
- Corps Artillery: One company
Cossack detachment: Major General Ivan K. Krasnov

Source: Pivka, Otto von (1979). Armies of the Napoleonic Era. New York, N.Y.: Taplinger Publishing. pp. 216–217. ISBN 0-8008-5471-3.
Source: Smith, Digby (1998). The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill. pp. 391–392. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.

3rd Reserve Observation Army

General of cavalry Alexander Tormasov

Infantry Corps: General of Infantry Sergei Kamensky
- 18th Infantry Division
  - 1st Brigade
    - Vladimir and Tambov Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Kostroma and Dnieper Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 28th and 32nd Jäger Regiments
- Combined Grenadier Division
  - 18 combined grenadier battalions
- Corps Artillery: Four companies
- Pavlograd Hussar Regiment
Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Yevgeni Ivanovich Markov
- 9th Infantry Division
  - 1st Brigade
    - Nasheburg and Yakutsk Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Apsheron and Ryazhsk Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 10th and 38th Jäger Regiments
- 15th Infantry Division
  - 1st Brigade
    - Kozlov and Vitebsk Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Kura and Kolyvan Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 13th and 14th Jäger Regiments
- Corps Artillery: Seven companies
- Alexandria Hussar Regiment
Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Baron Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken
- 36th Infantry Division
  - Unknown composition
- 11th Cavalry Division
  - Lubny Hussar Regiment, other units unknown
- Corps Artillery: Two companies
Cavalry Corps: Major General Count Charles de Lambert
- 5th Cavalry Division
  - 15th Cavalry Brigade
    - Starodub and Tver Dragoon Regiments
  - 16th Cavalry Brigade
    - Arzamas and Zhitomir Dragoon Regiments
  - 17th Cavalry Brigade
    - Vladimir, Taganrog and Serpukhov Dragoon Regiments and Tartar Uhlan Regiment
- Nine Cossack regiments

Source: Pivka, Otto von (1979). Armies of the Napoleonic Era. New York, N.Y.: Taplinger Publishing. ISBN 0-8008-5471-3.

Danube Army

The Danube Army, commanded by Admiral Pavel Chichagov, included the:

1st Corps (General of cavalry Count Andrault de Langeron); made up of the:
- 22nd Infantry Division
2nd Corps (Lieutenant General Count Pyotr Essen);
3rd Corps (Lieutenant General Alexander Voinov);
4th Corps (Lieutenant General Andreas Burchard Friedrich von Saß (Andrey Pavlovich Zass)); made up of the:
- 8th Infantry Division
- 7th Cavalry Division
Reserve of the Army (Lieutenant General Ivan Sabaneev)

Separate Corps and detachments

Riga Corps (Lieutenant General Magnus Gustav (Ivan) von Essen)

Finland Corps

The Finland Corps consisted of the following units, under the command of Lieutenant General (Faddey) Fabian Steinheil:^[5]

6th Infantry Division
- 1st Brigade
  - Bryansk and Nizov Infantry Regiments
- 3rd Brigade
  - Azov Infantry and 3rd Jager Regiments
- 6th Field Artillery Brigade
  - 6th Heavy and 11th Light Batteries
21st Infantry Division
- 1st Brigade
  - Petrovsk and Podolia Infantry Regiments
- 2nd Brigade
  - Neva and Lithuania Infantry Regiments
- 3rd Brigade
  - 2nd and 44th Jager Regiments
- 21st Field Artillery Brigade
  - 21st Heavy and 40th Light Batteries
25th Infantry Division
- 1st Brigade
  - 1st and 2nd Marine Regiments
- 2nd Brigade
  - 3rd Marine and Voronezh Infantry Regiments
- 3rd Brigade
  - 31st and 47th Jager Regiments
- 25th Field Artillery Brigade
27th Cavalry Brigade
- Finland and Mitava Dragoon Regiments
Isaev II, Loshchilin, and Kiselev II Don Cossack Regiments

Other separate units

1st Reserve Corps (Adjutant General Baron Yegor Meller-Zakomelsky);
2nd Reserve Corps (Lieutenant General Fyodor Ertell);
Bobruysk detachment (Major General Gavriil Ignatyev);
Smolensk Reserve Corps (General aide-de-camp Baron Ferdinand von Wintzingerode);
Kaluga Reserve Corps (General of infantry Count of Serbian origin Mikhail Miloradovich);
27th Infantry Division (Major General Dmitry Neverovsky);
Serbian detachment (Major General Nikolai Liders)

References

^ Michael de Tolly was appointed the commander-in-chief of the 1st Army on 19 March 1812. However, after arrival of Emperor Alexander I in Vilnius, the latter became de jure and de facto a commander-in-chief.
^ In June 1812 the 1st Infantry Corps was excluded from the 1st Army and left by the Northern Dvina for protection of Saint Petersburg
^ Riehn, Richard (1991). 1812: Napoleon's Russian Campaign. United States: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 444–464. ISBN 0-471-54302-0.
^ the correct name for both the town and the regiment is "Kargopol"
^ Podmazo, Alexander (22 April 2003). Русская армия в июне 1812 г. [Russian Army in June 1812] (in Russian). Retrieved 27 June 2018.

External links

(in Russian) The Russian Army in June 1812 by Aleksandr Podmazo
The Russian Army of 1812

[1] Michael de Tolly was appointed the commander-in-chief of the 1st Army on 19 March 1812. However, after arrival of Emperor Alexander I in Vilnius, the latter became de jure and de facto a commander-in-chief.

[2] In June 1812 the 1st Infantry Corps was excluded from the 1st Army and left by the Northern Dvina for protection of Saint Petersburg

[Riehn-3] Riehn, Richard (1991). 1812: Napoleon's Russian Campaign. United States: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 444–464. ISBN 0-471-54302-0.

[4] the correct name for both the town and the regiment is "Kargopol"

[5] Podmazo, Alexander (22 April 2003). Русская армия в июне 1812 г. [Russian Army in June 1812] (in Russian). Retrieved 27 June 2018.

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