1757 - Russian campaign in East Prussia – Russian OOB May 13
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Description
Commander-in-chief: Field-Marshall Count Stepan Fiodorovitch Apraxin
On May 13, the Russian army of Field-Marshall Apraxin counted some 88,400 men and consisted of:
On the Prussian border: Don Cossacks of the “Old Command” (2 rgts in 10 sotnias for a total of 1,000 men)
On the march towards the Prussian border at Kowno: Don Cossacks of the “Old Command” (2 rgts in 10 sotnias for a total of 1,000 men)
Lieutenant-General Lieven's Cavalry
- at Kowno (6 sqns for a total of 1,200 men and 4 regimental pieces)
- Kazan Horse Grenadiers (more probably Ryazanskiy Horse Grenadiers)
- Narvskiy Horse Grenadiers
- on the march from Vilnius to Kowno under Lieutenant-General Lieven (18 sqns and 2 foreign units for a total of 4,600 men and 12 regimental pieces)
- on the march from Slutsk by Mir towards Grodno under Major-General Schilling (2,600 men with 6 regimental pieces)
- Sankt-Peterburgskiy Horse Grenadiers (3 sqns)
- Slobodian Cossacks (2 rgts for a total of 20 sotnias)
On the march from Mitau to Kowno
- General-Quartermaster Major-General Stoffeln (6 bns for a total of 3,000 men with 10 regimental pieces)
- Major-General Manteuffel-Zöge (6 bns for a total of 3,000 men with 10 regimental pieces)
Avant-Garde under General in Chief Browne in and around Mitau (17 bns, 15 sqns and 5 sotnias for a total of 12,400 men with 30 regimental pieces)
- 2nd Grenadier
- Nizegorodskiy Infantry
- Muromskiy Infantry
- Kievskiy Infantry
- Ladozskiy Infantry
- Nevskiy Infantry
- 3rd Cuirassier
- Serbskiy Hussars
- Vengerskiy Hussars
- Chuguevski Cossacks
Main body under General in Chief Lopukhin
- in and around Riga (34 bns, 5 sqns and 2 Asiatic units for a total of 20,936 men with 60 regimental pieces)
- 1st Grenadier
- 3rd Grenadier
- Sankt-Peterburgskiy Infantry
- Voronejskiy Infantry
- Novgorodskiy Infantry
- Vyborgskiy Infantry
- Butyrskiy Infantry
- Pskovskiy Infantry
- Bjeloserskiy Infantry
- Arkhangelogorodskiy Infantry
- Apsheronskiy Infantry
- Rostovskiy Infantry
- Prince Fedorovitch Cuirassiers
- Stavropol Christianized Kalmyks (500 men)
- Kazan Tatars (500 men)
- Field Artillery (68 pieces and 1,000 men)
- Miners (1 coy of 120 men)
- Pontoniers (1 detachment of 40 men with 30 pontoons
- Siege Artillery (24 pieces and 276)
- on the march from Dorpat towards Riga under Brigadier Uvarov (12 bns for a total of 6,000 men with 20 regimental pieces)
- on the march from Livonia towards Riga (3 bns for a total of 1,500 men with 5 regimental pieces)
- on the march from the Province of Pskov towards Riga (9 bns for a total of 4,500 men with 15 regimental pieces)
In Reval under Lieutenant-General Saltykov to be transported by the Galley Fleet (12 bns for a total of 6,000 men with 20 regimental pieces)
On the march from Dünaburg towards Wilkomir under Major-General Rumyantsev (25 sqns for a total of 4,760 men with 6 regimental pieces)
- Kievskiy Cuirassiers
- Kazanskiy Cuirassiers
- Novotroitskiy Cuirassiers
- Gruzinskiy Hussars
- Moldavskiy Hussars
In Vilnius (3 bns for a total of 1,500 men with 5 regimental pieces)
On the march from Smolensk towards Vilnius under Brigadier Krasnoshtshokov
- Don Cossacks of the “Old Command” (4 rgts for a total of 20 sotnias and 2,000 men)
On the march from Starodub towards Vilnius
- Major-General Kastiurin
- Slobodian Cossacks (3 regts in 20 sotnias for a total of 2,000 men eith 6 regimental pieces)
- Major Hak and Suvorov
- Volga Kalmyks (2 units for a total of 2,000 men)
- Colonel Yefremov
- Don Cossacks of the “New Command” (10 rgts in 50 sotnias for a total of 5,000 men)
On the march from Starodub towards Grodno
- Companeiskiy Cossacks (10 sotnias for a total of 1,000 men)
Still on their way to the army
- 11 unicorns and 255 men
- Horvat Hussars (2 sqns for a total of 400 men)
Serving the regimental pieces of the regular units of the army
- Field Artillery (1,250 men)
References
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II: Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 4 Groß-Jägersdorf und Breslau, Berlin, 1902, Anhang 14 p. 226