Russian Army order of battle (1812)

The Imperial Russian Army in 1812 consists of 3 main armies and other military formations. Commander in Chief Emperor of the Army was 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
- 5th Infantry Division: Major General Gregor von Berg
  - 1st Brigade
    - Sievsk Grenadier and Kaluga Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Perm and Mohilev Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 23rd and 24th Jäger Regiment
- 14th Infantry Division: Major General Ivan Sazonov
  - 1st Brigade
    - Tula and Navaginsk Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Riga and Tenginsk Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 25th and 26th Jäger Regiment
- Corps Artillery: Nine companies, two pontoon and one pioneer companies
- 1st Cavalry Division: Major General Pyotr Kahovskiy
  - 1st and 5th Cavalry Brigades
    - Riga and Jamburg Dragoon Regiments, Grodno Hussar Regiment and three Cossack Regiments
2nd Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Karl Gustav von Baggovut
- 4th Infantry Division: Major General Duke Eugene of Württemberg
  - 1st Brigade
    - Kremenchug and Minsk Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Tobolsk and Volhynia Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 4th and 34th Jäger Regiments
- 17th Infantry Division: Major General Zakhar Dmitrievich Olsufiev
  - 1st Brigade
    - Ryazan and Byelosersk Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Brest and Wilmannstrand Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 30th and 48th Jäger Regiments
- Corps Artillery: Seven companies
- Elizabethgrad Hussar Regiment
3rd Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Nikolai Tuchkov
- 1st Grenadier Division: Major General Count Pavel Stroganov
  - 1st Brigade
    - Life Grenadiers and Arakcheyev Grenadier Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Pavlov and Ekaterinslav Grenadier Regiments
  - 3rd Grenadier Brigade
    - Saint Petersburg and Tauride Grenadier Regiments
- 3rd Infantry Division: Major General Pyotr Konovnitsin
  - 1st Brigade
    - Reval and Muromsk Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Tchernigov and Kaporie Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 20th and 21st Jäger Regiments
- Corps Artillery: Eight companies
- Life Guard Cossack Regiment and one Cossack regiment
4th Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Count Pavel Shuvalov
- 11th Infantry Division: Major General Nikolai Bakhmetiev
  - 1st Brigade
    - Kexholm and Pernau Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Polotsk and Yeletz Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 1st and 33rd Jäger Regiments
- 23rd Infantry Division: Major General Alexey Bakhmetiev
- Corps Artillery: Six companies
5th Reserve Guards Infantry Corps: Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia
- Guard Infantry Division: Major General Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov
  - 1st Guards Infantry Brigade
    - Preobrazhensky and Semyonovsky Life Guard Regiments
  - 2nd Guards Infantry Brigade
    - Izmaylovsky and Lithuanian Lifeguard Regiments
  - 3rd Guards Infantry Brigade
    - Finland and Lifeguard Jäger Regiments
- 1st Combined Grenadier Division ^[3]
  - 26 combined grenadier battalions
- Corps Artillery: Four foot and two horse companies, one pioneer company
- 1st Cuirassier Division Major General Nikolay Depreradovich
  - 1st Cuirassier Brigade
    - Chevalier Guard and Life Guard Horse Regiments
  - 2nd Cuirassier Brigade
    - Emperor Life Guard, Empress Life Guard and Astrakhan Cuirassier Regiments
6th Infantry Corps: General of infantry Dmitry Dokhturov
- 7th Infantry Division: Lieutenant General Peter Mikhailovich Kaptzevich
  - 1st Brigade
    - Moscow and Pskov Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Libau and Sophia Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 11th and 36th Jäger Regiments
  - 7th Divisional Artillery
- 24th Infantry Division: Major General Pyotr Likhachyov
  - 1st Brigade
    - Ufa and Schirvan Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Butirsk and Tomsk Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 19th and 40th Jäger Regiments
- 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 Niezhin 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
  - Karopol and Ingermanland Dragoon Regiments
- Brigade
  - Isum 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
  - Mariopol 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.

2nd Army of the West

General of 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
    - Alexopol 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
    - Nishegorod and Orel Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 3rd, 5th and 42nd Jäger Regiments
- Corps Artillery: Unknown
8th Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Nikolay Borozdin
- 2nd Grenadier Division: Major General Prince Karl von Mecklenburg
  - 1st Grenadier Brigade
    - Crimea and Moscow Grenadier Regiments
  - 2nd Grenadier Brigade
    - Astrakhan and Fanagoria Grenadier Regiments
  - 3rd Grenadier Brigade
    - Siberia and Little Russia Grenadier Regiments
- 27th Infantry Division: Major General Dmitri 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
    - Ekaterinoslav and Military Order Cuirassier Regiments
  - 3rd Cavalry Brigade
    - Gluchov, 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
- Brigade
  - Achtyrsk Hussar and Lithuanian Uhlan Regiments
- Corps Artillery: One company
Cossack detachment: General Major Ivan K. Krasnov

3rd Reserve Army of Observation

General of cavalry Alexander Tormasov

Infantry Corps: General of Infantry Sergei Kamenskii
- 18th Infantry Division
  - 1st Brigade
    - Vladimir and Tambov Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Kostroma and Dneiprovsk Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 28th and 32nd Jäger Regiments
- Combined Grenadier Division
  - 18 combined grenadier battalions
- Corps Artillery: Four companies
- Pavlovgrad Hussar Regiment
Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Yevgeni Ivanovich Markov
- 9th Infantry Division
  - 1st Brigade
    - Nascheburg and Yakutsk Infantry Regiments
  - 2nd Brigade
    - Apscheron and Riazhsk Infantry Regiments
  - 3rd Brigade
    - 10th and 38th Jäger Regiments
- 15th Infantry Division
  - 1st Brigade
    - Koslov 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
    - Arsamass and Zhitomir Dragoon Regiments
  - 17th Cavalry Brigade
    - Vladimir, Taganrog and Serpuchov 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

Admiral Pavel Chichagov

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

Corps of Riga (Lieutenant General Magnus Gustav (Ivan) von Essen);
Corps of Finland (Lieutenant General (Faddey) Fabian Steinheil);
1st Reserve Corps (General aide-de-camp Baron Yegor Meller-Zakomelsky);
2nd Reserve Corps (Lieutenant General Fyodor Ertel);
Bobruysk detachment (Major General Gavriil Ignatiev (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 Dmitri Neverovskii);
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. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

External links

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

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