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 Tchernichev assisted by Lieutenant-General Leontiev; Majors-Generals Numers, Prince Dolgoruki; and Brigadiers Benkendorf, Melgunov and Beketov
Cavalry
Infantry under Brigadier Briul
Light cavalry
- Serbskiy Hussars
- Unidentified Cossacks Units (3 rgts) 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
- Sankt-Peterburgskiy
- Rostovskiy
- Muromskiy
- Butyrskiy
- Kievskiy
- Schlusselburgskiy
- Riazanskiy
- Kegsgolmskiy
- Nizegorodskiy
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
- Permskiy
- Smolenskiy
- Sibyrskiy
- Nizovskiy
- Arkhangelogorodskiy
- Chernigovskiy
- Narvskiy
- Troitskiy
- Uglitskiy
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
- Voronejskiy
- Novgorodskiy
- Kazanskiy
- Vologdaskiy
- Pskovskiy
- Bjeloserskiy
- Apsheronskiy
- Suzdalskiy
Cuirassiers Division
Commander: Lieutenant-General Prince Volkonski
Cuirassiers (17 sqns)
- Leib-regiment
- Prince Fedorovitch or Altesse Impériale
- 3rd Cuirassier
- Kievskiy
- Kazanskiy
- Novotroitskiy
Cavalry Division
Commander: Major-General Eropkin (till the arrival of Lieutenant-General Oliz)
Cavalry (18 sqns and 12 horse guns)
- Narvskiy Horse Grenadiers
- Kargopolskiy Horse Grenadiers
- Arkhangelogorodskiy Dragoons
- Tobolskiy Dragoons
- Nizegorodskiy Dragoons
- Tverskiy Dragoons
Field Artillery
Commander: Lieutenant-General Glebov assisted by General-Quartermaster von Stofel
- Chuguevski Cossacks (1 rgt) escorting the field artillery
- Fusilier Regiment (1st Fusilier Regiment or 2nd Fusilier Regiment?) escorting the field artillery
- 1st Field Artillery Regiment serving field artillery
Engineer Major-General Muraviev and engineer officers.
References
http://syw-cwg.narod.ru/odb1760e.html
Maslowskiy, D: Der Siebenjährige Krieg nach Russischer Darstellung, translated by A. Drygalski, vol. 3, Berlin 1893
Semiletnaya voyna, Moscow, 1948
