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)
  • Rizhskiy Horse Grenadiers
  • Kargopolskiy Horse Grenadiers
  • Tverskiy Dragoons
  • Arkhangelogorodskiy Dragoons
  • Tobolskiy Dragoons
  • Nizegorodskiy Dragoons
  • Mesheryak Asiatic Cavalry (500 men)
  • Bashkir Asiatic Cavalry (500 men)
• 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)
  • Sibyrskiy Infantry
  • Smolenskiy Infantry
• Major-General Manteuffel-Zöge (6 bns for a total of 3,000 men with 10 regimental pieces)
  • Kazanskiy Infantry
  • Narvskiy Infantry

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)
  • Schlusselburgskiy Infantry
  • 2nd Moscowskiy Infantry
  • Troitskiy Infantry
  • Suzdalskiy Infantry
• on the march from Livonia towards Riga (3 bns for a total of 1,500 men with 5 regimental pieces)
  • Nizovskiy Infantry
• on the march from the Province of Pskov towards Riga (9 bns for a total of 4,500 men with 15 regimental pieces)
  • Kegsgolmskiy Infantry
  • Vologdaskiy Infantry
  • Permskiy Infantry

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)

• Azovskiy Infantry
• Uglitskiy Infantry
• Chernigovskiy Infantry
• Viatskiy Infantry

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)

• Riazanskiy Infantry

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