# 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
* 1st Infantry Corps: 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
*** 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
*** Kargopol 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.

## 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
**** 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 Mikhail 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
** Cavalry Brigade
*** Achtyrsk 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
**** 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

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:
* 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)