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.
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 Baggovut)
- 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 aide-de-camp Fyodor Uvarov);
- 2nd Reserve Cavalry Corps (General aide-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 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.
