1758 - Russian invasion of East Prussia – Russian Army OOB January
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Order of battle of the Russian army in January 1758
Commander-in-chief: Villim Vilimovich Fermor
- Cuirassiers (5 rgts)
- His Imperial Highness (about 690 men)
- 3rd Cuirassier (about 690 men)
- Kazanskiy (about 414 men)
- Kievskiy (about 414 men)
- Novotroitskiy (about 414 men)
- Horse Grenadiers (5 rgts each about 414 men strong)
- Dragoons (4 rgts, each 414 dragoons and 138 horse grenadiers)
- Hussars
- Serbskiy (about 600 men)
- Vengerskiy (about 600 men)
- Moldavskiy (about 600 men)
- Gruzinskiy (about 600 men)
- 1st Novoserbskiy aka Horvat (about 1,000 men)
- 2nd Novoserbskiy (New Serbian) (1 sqn)
- Shevich or Preradovich Slaviano-Serbian (about 500 men in 2 sqns)
- Cossacks
- Chuguev Cossacks (about 500 men)
- Don Cossacks (about 9,000 men)
- Others (about 6,000 men)
- Asiatic cavalry
- Volga Kalmyks (about 2,000 men)
- Infantry (36 rgts)
- 1st Grenadier (2 bns)
- 2nd Grenadier (2 bns)
- 3rd Grenadier (2 bns)
- 4th Grenadier (2 bns)
- 2nd Moskovskiy (2 bns)
- Vyborgskiy (2 bns)
- Vyatskiy (2 bns)
- Nizovskiy (2 bns)
- Permskiy (2 bns)
- Nizhegorodskiy (2 bns)
- Uglitskiy (2 bns)
- Azovskiy (2 bns)
- Arkhangelogorodskiy (2 bns)
- Narvskiy (2 bns)
- Sibyrskiy (2 bns)
- Troitskiy (2 bns)
- Kievskiy (2 bns)
- Kazanskiy (2 bns)
- Schlusselburgskiy (2 bns)
- Apsheronskiy (2 bns)
- Sankt-Peterburgskiy (2 bns)
- Voronezhskiy (2 bns)
- Novgorodskiy (2 bns)
- Muromskiy (2 bns)
- Smolenskiy (2 bns)
- Ryazanskiy (2 bns)
- Rostovskiy (2 bns)
- Chernigovskiy (2 bns)
- Prul (probably Butyrskiy Infantry)(2 bns)
- Ladozhskiy (2 bns)
- Nevskiy (2 bns)
- Suzdalskiy (2 bns)
- Belozerskiy (2 bns)
- Pskovskiy (2 bns)
- Keksgolmskiy (2 bns)
- Vologodskiy (2 bns)
- Observation Corps
- Grenadier Regiment (4 bns)
- 1st Musketeer (4 bns)
- 3rd Musketeer (4 bns)
- 4th Musketeer (4 bns)
- 5th Musketeer (4 bns)
- Artillery (242 pieces excluding battalion guns)
- 20 12-pdrs guns
- 26 8-pdrs guns
- 10 6-pdrs guns
- 6 mortars
- 50 Shuvalov's guns
- 20 howitzers
- 2 96-pdrs unicorns
- 12 48-pdrs unicorns
- 30 24-pdrs unicorns
- 20 12-pdrs unicorns
- 28 3-pdrs and 6-pdrs unicorns
- 18 3-pdrs unicorns accompanying the dragoons
References
Jomini, Henri, Traité des grandes opérations militaires, 2ème édition, 2ème partie, Magimel, Paris: 1811, pp. 140-167, 232, 252-253, 262-264
Tielke, J. G., An Account of some of the most Remarkable Events of the War between the Prussians, Austrians and Russians from 1756 to 1763, Vol. 2, Walter, London, 1788, pp. 1-67, 72-87
