1760 - Russian campaign in Brandenburg – Russian OOB May
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Order of battle of the Russian army gathering in Poland, May 24 1760
Commander-in-chief: Field-Marshal Count Piotr Semionovitch Saltykov
Advanced corps sent to Poznan
Commander: Lieutenant-General Cavalier Count Chernichev assisted by Lieutenant-General Leontiev; Majors-Generals Numers, Prince Dolgoruki; and Brigadiers Benkendorf, Melgunov and Beketov
Cavalry
- Sankt-Peterburgskiy Horse Grenadiers (3 sqns)
- Rizhskiy Horse Grenadiers (3 sqns)
- Ryazanskiy Horse Grenadiers (3 sqns)
Infantry under Brigadier Briul
- 4th Grenadier (2 bns)
- Ladozhskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Nevskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Viatskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Azovskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Vyborgskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- 2nd Moscowskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
Light cavalry
- Serbskiy Hussars (5 sqns)
- Unidentified Cossacks Units (15 sotnia in 3 rgts) probably Don Cossacks under Brigadier Serebriakov
First Division
Commander General Count Villim Vilimovich Fermor assisted by Lieutenants-Generals Dolgoruki and Jazykov; Majors-Generals Treiden, Fulerton and Sivers; and Brigadiers Eltchaninov, Tcherepov and Brile
Infantry
- 3rd Grenadier (2 bns)
- Sankt-Peterburgskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Rostovskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Muromskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Butyrskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Kievskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Schlusselburgskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Riazanskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Kegsgolmskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Nizegorodskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
Second Division
Commander: General Braun (or Brown) assisted by Lieutenant-General Fast; Majors-Generals Rosen and Berg; and Brigadiers Brant and von Derfelden
Infantry
- 1st Grenadier (2 bns)
- Permskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Smolenskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Sibyrskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Nizovskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Arkhangelogorodskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Chernigovskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Narvskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Troitskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Uglitskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
Third Division
Commander: Lieutenant-General Count Rumyantsev assisted by Lieutenants-Generals Prince Lubomirski and Panin; Majors-Generals Plemiannikov, Prince Sulkovski and Prince Hovanski; and Brigadiers Bahman, Count Brus and Geiser (or Hanzer)
Infantry
- 2nd Grenadier (2 bns)
- Voronejskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Novgorodskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Kazanskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Vologdaskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Pskovskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Bjeloserskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Apsheronskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
- Suzdalskiy (2 bns and 2 grenadier coys)
Cuirassiers Division
Commander: Lieutenant-General Prince Volkonski
Cuirassiers (23 sqns)
- Leib-regiment (4 sqns)
- Prince Fedorovitch or Altesse Impériale (5 sqns)
- 3rd Cuirassier (5 sqns)
- Kievskiy (3 sqns)
- Kazanskiy (3 sqns)
- Novotroitskiy (3 sqns)
Cavalry Division
Commander: Major-General Eropkin (till the arrival of Lieutenant-General Oliz)
Cavalry (18 sqns and 12 horse guns)
- Narvskiy Horse Grenadiers (3 sqns)
- Kargopolskiy Horse Grenadiers (3 sqns)
- Arkhangelogorodskiy Dragoons (3 sqns)
- Tobolskiy Dragoons (3 sqns)
- Nizegorodskiy Dragoons (3 sqns)
- Tverskiy Dragoons (3 sqns)
Field Artillery
Commander: Lieutenant-General Glebov assisted by General-Quartermaster von Stofel
- Chuguevski Cossacks (5 sotnia) escorting the field artillery
- 1st Fusilier Regiment (9 coys) escorting the field artillery
- 2nd Fusilier Regiment (9 coys) escorting the field artillery
- Fusilier Reserve (3 coys)
- 1st Field Artillery Regiment serving the field artillery
N.B.: it is difficult to ascertain rhe exact number of artillery pieces accompanying the army because a large number of them had been discarded at the end of the previous campaign. The Grosser Generalstab mentions:
- 108 field artillery pieces
- 46 howitzers
- 148 regimental pieces with the infantry
- 24 regimental pieces with the cavalrymen
- 28 regimental pieces with the hussars
- 18 regimental pieces with the cossacks
Engineer Major-General Muraviev and engineer officers
- Engineer Regiment (1,200 men)
Other Units
The work of the Grosser Generalstab also lists the following light cavalry units without associating them with any specific corps:
- Gruzinskiy Hussars (5 sqns)
- Moldavskiy Hussars (5 sqns)
- Vengerskiy Hussars (5 sqns)
- 1st Novoserbskiy Hussars (probably 5 sqns) aka Horvat
- Zholtiy Hussars (2 sqns)
- Slaviano-Serbian Hussars (5 sqns) Shevich Hussars and/or Preradovich Hussars
- Don Cossacks (35 sotnia in 7 rgts)
- Malorussian Cossacks (2,000 men in 20 sotnia)
Finally, the 2nd Regimental Artillery Regiment provided the artillerymen serving the regimental pieces.
References
http://syw-cwg.narod.ru/odb1760e.html
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 12 Landeshut und Liegnitz, Berlin, 1913, Anlage 7
Maslowskiy, D: Der Siebenjährige Krieg nach Russischer Darstellung, translated by A. Drygalski, vol. 3, Berlin 1893
Semiletnaya voyna, Moscow, 1948
