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.

1 1st Army of the West
2 2nd Army of the West
3 3rd Reserve Army of Observation
4 Danube Army
5 Separate Corps and detachments
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

1st Army of the West

General of 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);
- 14th Infantry Division (Major General Ivan Sazonov);
2nd Infantry Corps (Lieutenant General Karl Gustav von Baggehufvud)
- 4th Infantry Division (Major General Duke Eugene of Württemberg);
- 17th Infantry Division (Major General Zakhar Olsufiev);
3rd Infantry Corps (Lieutenant General Nikolai Tuchkov)
- 1st Grenadier Division (Major General Count Pavel Stroganov);
- 3rd Infantry Division (Major General Pyotr Konovnitsin);
4th Infantry Corps (Lieutenant General Count Pavel Shuvalov)
- 11th Infantry Division (Major General Nikolai Bakhmetiev);
- 23rd Infantry Division (Major General Alexey Bakhmetiev);
5th Reserve Guards Infantry Corps (Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia)
- Guard Infantry Division (Major General Alexey Yermolov);
- 1st Combined Grenadier Division ^[3]
- 1st Cuirassier Division (Major General Nikolay Depreradovich);
6th Infantry Corps (General of infantry Dmitry Dokhturov)
- 7th Infantry Division (Lieutenant General Pyotr Kaptsevich);
- 24th Infantry Division (Major General Pyotr Likhachyov);
1st Reserve Cavalry Corps (General aid-de-camp Fyodor Uvarov);
2nd Reserve Cavalry Corps (General aid-de-camp Baron Fyodor Korf);
3rd Reserve Cavalry Corps (Major General Count Pyotr von der Pahlen);
The "flying" Cossack Corps (General of cavalry Count Matvei Platov);

2nd Army of the West

General of infantry Prince Pyotr Bagration

7th Infantry Corps (Lieutenant General Nikolay Raevsky);
8th Infantry Corps (Lieutenant General Nikolay Borozdin);
4th Reserve Cavalry Corps (Major General Count Karl Sivers);
Cossack detachment of (General Major Nikolay Ilovaisky Vth)

3rd Reserve Army of Observation

General of cavalry Alexander Tormasov

Corps of General of infantry Sergei Kamenskii;
Corps of Lieutenant General Yevgeni Markov;
Corps of Lieutenant General Baron Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken;
Cavalry Corps of Major General Count Charles de Lambert;

Danube Army

Admiral Pavel Chichagov

1st Corps (General of cavalry Count Andrault de Langeron);
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));
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 aid-de-camp Baron Yegor Meller-Zakomelsky);
2nd Reserve Corps (Lieutenant General Fyodor Ertel);
Bobruysk detachment (Major General Gavriil Ignatiev (Ignatyev));
Smolensk Reserve Corps (General aid-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.

External links

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