1759 - Russian campaign in Brandenburg – Russian Army OOB
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Description
List of the Russian units which participated in the campaign of 1759.
Commander-in-chief: Count Villim Vilimovich Fermor until June 20, 1759, when he was replaced by Count Piotr Semionovitch Saltykov
Operation Army
Most of these troops took part in the Battle of Paltzig (Kay) (July 23) and all of them (with the exception of the Narvskiy Horse Grenadiers) fought in the Battle of Kunersdorf (August 12).
Infantry (68 bns, 46 grenadier coys and 138 regimental artillery pieces)
- 1st Grenadier (2 bns)
- 2nd Grenadier (2 bns)
- 3rd Grenadier (2 bns)
- 4th Grenadier (2 bns)
- Apsheronskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Arkhangelogorodskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Azovskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Belozerskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Kazanskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Kievskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- 2nd Moscowskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Narvskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Nevskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Nizegorodskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Nizovskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Novgorodskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Permskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Pskovskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Rostovskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Sankt-Peterburgskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Sibyrskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Tobolskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Chernigovskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Uglitskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Viatskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Vologodskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Vyborgskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Observation Corps Grenadiers (2 bns)
- Observation Corps 1st Musketeer (3 bns)
- Observation Corps 3rd Musketeer (3 bns)
- Observation Corps 4th Musketeer (3 bns)
- Observation Corps 5th Musketeer (3 bns)
Cavalry (39 sqns and 18 regimental artillery pieces)
- His Imperial Highness Cuirassiers (5 sqns)
- 3rd Cuirassier (5 sqns)
- Kazanskiy Cuirassiers (3 sqns)
- Kievskiy Cuirassiers (3 sqns)
- Novotroitskiy Cuirassiers (3 sqns)
- Kargopolskiy Horse Grenadiers (3 sqns)
- Narvskiy Horse Grenadiers (3 sqns)
- Sankt-Peterburgskiy Horse Grenadiers (3 sqns)
- Ryazanskiy Horse Grenadiers (3 sqns)
- Arkhangelogorodskiy Dragoons (4 sqns)
- Tobolskiy Dragoons (4 sqns)
Light Cavalry (27 sqns, 50 sotnias)
- Gruzinskiy Hussars (5 sqns)
- Serbskiy Hussars (5 sqns)
- Vengerskiy Hussars (5 sqns)
- 1st Novoserbskiy Hussars (5 sqns)
- Slaviano-Serbian Hussars (5 sqns)
- Zholtiy Hussars (2 sqns) aka Yellow Hussars
- Chuguev Cossacks (5 sotnias)
- Don Cossacks (45 sotnias for a total of 4,500 men) under Brigadier Krasnochekov
Artillery
- Field artillery (201 pieces) including the artillery of the Observation Corps and the 60 pieces of the Secret Howitzer Corps
- Regimental artillery (156 pieces) including 18 pieces attached to the cavalry
Garrisons
In Posen
- Troitskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys with 4 artillery pieces)
- Novo-Serbian Hussars (6 sqns)
In Schrimm
- Moldavskiy Hussars (5 sqns)
In Kalisch
- Rizhskiy Horse Grenadiers (3 sqns with 2 regimental artillery pieces)
Corps of the Vistula
Commander-in-chief: Lieutenant-General Frolov-Bagreev
Infantry (16 bns and 16 grenadier coys with 32 regimental artillery pieces)
- Butyrskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Keksgolmskiy Infantry|Keksgolmskiy]] (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Ladozskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Muromskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Ryazanskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Schlusselburgskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Smolenskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Suzdalskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
Cavalry (14 sqns with 4 regimental artillery pieces, 5 sotnias)
- Nizhegorodskiy Dragoons (3 sqns)
- Tverskoy Dragoons (3 sqns)
- Arkhangelogorodskiy Dragoons (2 sqns)
- Picked Hussars (600 men)
- Don Cossacks (5 sotnias for a total of 500 men)
References
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 10 Kunersdorf, Berlin, 1912, Anlage 5
