Order of battle of the Imperial Russian Army (1812)
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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
Corps Artillery: Nine companies, two pontoon and one pioneer companies
1st Cavalry Division: Major General Pyotr Kahovskiy
1st and 5th Cavalry Brigades
Riga and Yamburg Dragoon Regiments, Grodno Hussar Regiment and three Cossack Regiments
2nd Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Karl Gustav von Baggovut
Corps Artillery: Seven companies
Elizabethgrad Hussar Regiment
3rd Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Nikolai Tuchkov
Corps Artillery: Eight companies
Life Guard Cossack Regiment and one Cossack regiment
4th Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Count Pavel Shuvalov
Corps Artillery: Six companies
5th Reserve Guards Infantry Corps: Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia
Corps Artillery: Four foot and two horse companies, one pioneer company
6th Infantry Corps: General of infantry Dmitry Dokhturov
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 Nezhin 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
Izyum 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
Mariupol 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.
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