The

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in June 1812 consisted of three main armies and other military formations. The Commander in Chief of the Army was Emperor

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First Western Army

General of the Infantry Prince

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* 1st Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General Count

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* 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

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* 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:

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* * Corps Artillery: Four foot and two horse companies, one pioneer company * 6th Infantry Corps: General of infantry

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* 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

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Second Western Army

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Prince

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* 7th Infantry Corps: Lieutenant General

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** 12th Infantry Division: Major General Illarion Vasilievich Vasilchokov *** 1st Brigade **** Smolensk and Narva Infantry Regiments *** 2nd Brigade **** Aleksopol and New Ingermanland Infantry Regiments *** 3rd Brigade **** 6th and 41st Jäger Regiments ** 26th Infantry Division: Major General

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*** 1st Brigade **** Ladoga and Poltava Infantry Regiments *** 2nd Brigade **** Nizhny Novgorod and Oryol 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

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Grenadier Regiments *** 3rd Grenadier Brigade **** Siberia and Little Russia Grenadier Regiments ** 27th Infantry Division: Major General Dmitry Petrovich Neverovsky *** 1st Brigade **** Odessa and Zhitomir (or Tarnopol) Infantry Regiments *** 2nd Brigade ****

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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 **** Yekaterinoslav and Military Order Cuirassier Regiments *** 3rd Cavalry Brigade **** Glukhov, 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 *** Akhtyrka Hussar and Lithuanian Uhlan Regiments ** Corps Artillery: One company * Cossack detachment: Major General Ivan K. Krasnov ''Source:''
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3rd Reserve Observation Army

General of cavalry

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* 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 **** Nasheburg and Yakutsk Infantry Regiments *** 2nd Brigade **** Apsheron and Ryazhsk Infantry Regiments *** 3rd Brigade **** 10th and 38th Jäger Regiments ** 15th Infantry Division *** 1st Brigade **** Kozlov 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

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** 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 **** Arzamas and Zhitomir Dragoon Regiments *** 17th Cavalry Brigade **** Vladimir, Taganrog and Serpukhov Dragoon Regiments and Tartar Uhlan Regiment ** Nine Cossack regiments ''Source:''

Danube Army

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, commanded by Admiral

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, 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

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Corps (

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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 ***

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and

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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

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detachment ( Major General Gavriil Ignatyev); *

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Reserve Corps (General aide-de-camp Baron

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Reserve Corps (General of infantry Count of Serbian origin

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); * 27th Infantry Division (Major General Dmitry Neverovsky); *

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n detachment (Major General Nikolai Liders)

References

External links

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The Russian Army in June 1812
by Aleksandr Podmazo

Conflicts in 1812 Imperial Russian Army Napoleonic Wars orders of battle *