# Field marshal (Russia)

Field marshal (General-feldmarshal, General-fel'dmarshal, General field marshal, or simply Fieldmarshal; Russian: Генерал-фельдмаршал) was, with the exception of Generalissimo, the highest military rank of the Russian Empire. It was a military rank of the 1st class in the Imperial Russian Army and equal to those of Chancellor and Active Privy Councillor, 1st class in civil service, and General Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the rank was abolished, alongside the Table of Ranks. In 1935 however, the Red Army introduced the equivalent rank of "Marshal of the Soviet Union" (Russian: Маршал Советского Союза) as the highest military rank of the Soviet Union, when ranks were restored under Stalin's rule.

## Russian field marshals

The rank of field marshal was bestowed on the following 64 Imperial Russian Army officers:
| Appointed | Name | Lifespan |
| 1700 | Count Fyodor Golovin | 1650–1706 |
| 1701 | Count Boris Sheremetev | 1652–1719 |
| 1709 | Prince Alexander Danilovich Menshikov | 1673–1729 |
| 1725 | Prince Anikita Repnin | 1668–1726 |
| 1725 | Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn | 1675–1730 |
| 1726 | Count Jacob Bruce | 1670–1735 |
| 1726 | Jan Kazimierz Sapieha | Before 1679–1730 |
| 1728 | Prince Ivan Trubetskoy | 1667–1750 |
| 1728 | Prince Vasily Vladimirovich Dolgorukov | 1667–1746 |
| 1732 | Count Burkhard Christoph von Münnich | 1683–1767 |
| 1736 | Count Peter von Lacy | 1678–1751 |
| 1742 | Prince Ludwig Gruno von Hesse-Homburg | 1705–1745 |
| 1756 | Stepan Apraksin | 1702–1758 |
| 1756 | Prince Nikita Trubetskoy | 1699–1767 |
| 1756 | Count Alexander Buturlin | 1694–1767 |
| 1756 | Count Alexei Razumovsky | 1709–1771 |
| 1759 | Count Pyotr Saltykov | 1698–1772 |
| 1761 | Count Alexander Ivanovich Shuvalov | 1710–1771 |
| 1761 | Count Pyotr Ivanovich Shuvalov | 1711–1762 |
| 1761 | Peter August Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck | 1697–1775 |
| 1762 | Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp | 1719–1763 |
| 1762 | Count Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin | 1693–1766 |
| 1762 | Prince Nikita Trubetskoy | 1699–1769 |
| 1764 | Count Kirill Razumovsky | 1728–1803 |
| 1769 | Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn | 1718–1783 |
| 1770 | Count Pyotr Rumyantsev | 1725–1796 |
| 1773 | Count Zakhar Chernyshev | 1722–1784 |
| 1784 | Prince Grigory Potemkin | 1739–1791 |
| 1794 | Prince Aleksandr Suvorov | 1729–1800 |
| 1796 | Count Ivan Saltykov | 1730–1805 |
| 1796 | Prince Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin | 1734–1801 |
| 1796 | Prince Nikolai Saltykov | 1736–1816 |
| 1796 | Count Ivan Chernyshyov | 1726–1797 |
| 1797 | Count Johann Martin von Elmpt | 1725–1802 |
| 1797 | Count Valentin Musin-Pushkin | 1735–1804 |
| 1797 | Count Mikhail Kamensky | 1738–1809 |
| 1797 | Victor François de Broglie, 2nd Duke of Broglie | 1718–1804 |
| 1807 | Prince Alexander Prozorovsky | 1732–1809 |
| 1807 | Count Ivan Gudovich | 1741–1820 |
| 1812 | Prince Mikhail Golenischev-Kutuzov | 1745–1813 |
| 1814 | Prince Mikhail Barclay de Tolly | 1761–1818 |
| 1825 | Prince Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken | 1752–1837 |
| 1826 | Ludwig Adolph Peter, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg-Ludwigsburg | 1769–1843 |
| 1829 | Prince Ivan Paskevich | 1782–1856 |
| 1829 | Count Hans Karl von Diebitsch-Zabalkansky | 1785–1831 |
| 1850 | Prince Pyotr Volkonsky | 1776–1852 |
| 1856 | Prince Mikhail Vorontsov | 1782–1856 |
| 1859 | Prince Aleksandr Baryatinsky | 1815–1879 |
| 1866 | Count Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg | 1793–1874 |
| 1878 | Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich | 1831–1891 |
| 1878 | Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich | 1832–1909 |
| 1894 | Count Iosif Vladimirovich Gurko | 1828–1901 |
| 1898 | Count Dmitry Milyutin | 1816–1912 |

## Foreign field marshals

The rank of field marshal was also bestowed on several foreign citizens:
| Appointed | Name | Lifespan |
| 1700 | Charles Eugène, Duc de Croy | 1651–1702 |
| 1762 | Charles Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck | 1690–1774 |
| 1774 | Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt | 1719–1790 |
| 1818 | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | 1769–1852 |
| 1836 | Josef Graf zu Radetzky von Radetz | 1766–1858 |
| 1837 | Archduke Johann of Austria | 1782–1859 |
| 1872 | Helmuth Graf von Moltke | 1800–1891 |
| 1872 | Archduke Albrecht of Austria | 1817–1895 |
| 1872 | Albert, Crown Prince of Saxony | 1828–1902 |
| 1872 | Prince Friedrich Karl Alexander of Prussia | 1801–1883 |
| 1872 | Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus of Prussia | 1828–1885 |
| 1872 | Prince Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht of Prussia | 1809–1872 |
| 1872 | Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia | 1831–1888 |
| 1888 | Wilhelm II, German Emperor | 1859–1941 |
| 1910 | King Nicholas I of Montenegro | 1841–1921 |
| 1912 | King Carol I of Romania | 1839–1914 |