HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION

Military Land Forces on 6 November 1796.
I.                 Field Infantry.
II.       Cavalry.
III.             Artillery.
IV.            Corps of Engineers.
V.              Garrisons.
VI.            Guards Infantry.
VII.          Guards Cavalry.
VIII.        Guards Artillery.
IX.       Military Educational Establishements.
X.            Cossack forces.
XI.              National forces.
XII.            Temporary forces.
XIII.          Special commands at various official places and government buildings, and other separate units of the military administration.
XIV.        State companies and commands.
XV.        Non-serving invalids.
XVI.          Marine troops.

Notes.

 

CHANGES

IN THE

COMPOSITION AND NOMENCLATURE OF ALL FORCES,

FROM 1796 TO 1801. 

 

Upon EMPEROR PAUL I’s ascension to the Throne on 6 November 1796, Russian forces were as follows:

I.   Cavalier Guards Corps [Kavelergardskii Korpus].

II.  Life-Guards regiments: Preobrazhenskii, Semenovskii, Izmailovskii, and Horse [Konnyi].

III.  At the Imperial court [Sostoyavshie pri VYSOCHAISHEM DVORE]: Leib-Hussar Squadron [Leib Gusarskii eskadron] and cossack escort commands [konvoinyya kazach’i komandy]: Chuguev and Don.

IV. Grenadier regiments: Leib-Grenadiers, Taurica [Tavricheskii], Yekaterinoslav, Little-Russia [Malorossiiskii], Kiev, Siberia, Phanagoria, Astrakhan, St.-Petersburg, Kherson, Moscow [Moskovskii], and Caucasus.

V.  Infantry or musketeer regiments: Old-Ingermanland [Staroingermanlandskii], Moscow [Moskovskii], Troitsk, Vladimir, Novgorod, Schlüsselburg, Kazan, Pskov, Smolensk, Azov, Voronezh, Nizhnii-Novgorod [Nizhegorodskii], Chernigov, Ryazan, Suzdal, Rostov, Velikie-Luki [Velikolutskii], Archangel [Arkhangelogorodskii], Perm, Vyatka, Narva, Tobolsk, Neva, Vitebsk, Viborg, Uglich, Kexholm, Ladoga, Belozersk, Murom, Apsheron, Shirvan, Kabarda, Nasheburg, Nizovsk, Tiflis, Staryi-Oskol [Staroskol’sk], Belev, Ryazhsk, Sevsk, Yelets, Tambov, Orel [Orlovskii], Bryansk, Kursk, Kozlov, Aleksopol, Reval, Polotsk, Dnieper, Tula, Sevastopol, Sofiya, New-Ingermanland [Novoingermanlandskii], and Yaroslavl. In addition there were planned to be formed: Voznesensk, Bratslav, Podolia, Volhynia [Volynskii], Courland [Kurlyandskii], Tiraspol, Odessa, Minsk, Vilna, and Kovno [Kovenskii].

VI. Field battalions [Polevye bataliony]: Yekaterinburg, Semipalatinsk; 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Siberia; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Orenburg; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Moscow.

VII.  Jäger regiments [Yegerskie polki]: Kuban, Caucasus, Taurica, Bug, Belorussia, Finland, Livonia [Liflyandskii], Yekaterinoslav, Estonia [Estlyandskii], and Lithuania [Litovskii].

VIII.  Jäger battalions: 1st and 2nd Siberia and the Olonets.

IX.   Cuirassier regiments [Kirasirskie polki]: Leib-Cuirassiers, the Heir’s [Naslednika], Military Order [Voennago Ordena], Kazan, and Prince Potemkin’s [Knayz’ Potemkina].

X. Carabineer regiments [Karabinernye polki]: Riga [Rizhskii], Narva, Ryazan, Kargopol, Rostov, Moscow, Yamburg, Ingermanland, Sofiya, Glukhov, Tver, Kiev, Seversk, Chernigov, Nezhin, and Starodub.

XI. Military Order Horse-Grenadier Regiment [Konno-Grenaderskii polk Voennago Ordena].

XII. Dragoon regiments: Astrakhan, Vladimir, Smolensk, Taganrog, Kinburn, Nizhnii-Novgorod [Nizhegorodskii], St.-Petersburg, Orenburg, Siberia, Irkutsk, and Voronezh.

XIII. Hussar regiments: Olviopol and Voronezh, 5 hussar squadrons with the Pskov Dragoon Regiment and 2 squadrons with the Moscow Police.

XIV. Light-Horse regiments [Legko-konnye polki]: Mariupol, Pavlograd, Aleksandriya, Kherson, Poltava, Ostrorog, Akhtyrka, Sumy, Kharkov, Izyum, and Ukraine.

XV. Horse-Jäger regiments: Pereyaslavl, Yelisavetgrad, Kiev, and Taurica.

XVI. Regiments of the Foot Field Artillery: Bombardier, 1st and 2nd Cannoneer, and 1st and 2nd Fusilier; 3 battalions: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Bombardier.

XVII  Horse Artillery: of 5 companies.

XVIII.  3 companies of engineers: Miner Company, Pioneer Company, and Engineer Company for the Southern Borders [Minernaya, Pionernaya i Inzhenernaya dlya yuzhnykh granits].

XIX.  Garrison battalions: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th St.-Petersburg; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Kronstadt; 1st and 2nd Narva; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Viborg; 1st and 2nd Fredrikshamn; Nyslott; Villmanstrand; Kexholm; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Reval; Dünamünde; Pernau; Arensburg; 1st and 2nd Smolensk; Rogerviks; Dünaburg; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Riga; Polotsk; Vitebsk; Senno [Sennenskii]; Rogachev; Staryi-Bykhov; 1st and 2nd Kiev; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd St.-Elizabeth Fortress [kreposti Sv. Yelisavety]; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd St.-Dimitrii Fortress [kreposti Sv. Dimitriya]; Bakhmut; 1st and 2nd Azov; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Taganrog; Tambov; Kirillov; Aleksandrovsk; Petrovsk; Nikitinsk and Dneprovsk; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Astrakhan; 1st and 2nd Tsaritsyn; Saratov; 1st and 2nd Kizlyar; Mozdok; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Tobolsk; Tomsk; 1st and 2nd Omsk; Semipalatinsk; Biisk; St.-Peter Fortress [kresposti Sv. Petra]; Irkutsk; 1st and 2nd Selenginsk; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Orenburg; Ozernaya; Kizilsk; Verkhne-Uralsk; Troitsk; Zverinogolovsk; Stavropol; Novgorod; Tver; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Moscow; Vladimir; Perekop; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Kazan; Nizhnii-Novgorod; Simbirsk; 1st and 2nd Archangel; Voronezh.

XX.  Cadet corps: IMPERIAL Land, Artillery, and Engineer [IMPERATORSKII Sukhoputnyi, Artilleriiskii i Inzhenernyi]; Foreign Co-Believers [Chuzestrannykh yedinovertsev].

XXI.  Cossack hosts: Don, Black-Sea, Siberian, Orenburg, Astrakhan, and Yekaterinoslav. Cossack regiments on a regular establishment: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Chuguev; Astrakhan, Mozdok; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Orenburg; Ufa. Settled Caucasian cossacks: Grebensk, Terek, Family [Semeinye], Khoper, and Volga; Stavropol baptized Kalmyks.

XXII.  National forces: Mozdok Mountaineer Command [Gorskaya Mozdokskaya komanda]; Greek Infantry Regiment; IMPERIAL Belorussian, Mogilev, and Polotsk Standards [Khorugvi]; Tauric Tatar double-squadrons [diviziony] (two in number); Greek double-squadron (near Odessa).

XXIII.  Temporary forces formed under special military circumstances: Corps of Little-Russian Foot Riflemen [Korpus Malorossiiskikh peshikh strelkov] and a Cossack regiment of wagon drivers [Kazachii polk iz yamshchikov].

XXIV.  Detachments at official places and government institutions, such as: at the Senate—a battalion; at the Main War Commissariat and on the Provisioning establishment—one company each; at the St.-Petersburg Educational Society for Noble-Born Girls, at the Main Salt Office and its branches, at the construction of the Moscow Kremlin palace, at the St.-Petersburg Nobles’ Bank, at the Troitsk Commerce Office, at the Main Court Chancellery, at the Collegium for Foreign Affairs, at the Patrimonial Estates Department [Votchinnyi Departament], and at the foundry in the Donets District—one detachment [komanda] each.

XXV.  Mines battalions: Kolyvan-Voskresensk and Nerchinsk battalions. Companies: at the Yekaterinburg gold works—two infantry; at the Goroblagodatsk and Kamsk mines—one infantry; at the Olonets Petrovsk works—one invalid.

XXVI.  State Commands [Shtatnyya Komandy]: in St.-Petersburg Province—10, Arkhangel Province—7, Olonets Province—8, Viborg Province—6, Reval Province—5, Riga Province—9, Pskov Province—9, Vologda Province—12, B—12, Kostroma Province—15, Vyatka Province—13, Perm Province—15, Tobolsk Province—16, Moscow Province—15, Smolensk Province—12, Polotsk Province—11, Mogilev Province—12, Chernigov Province—15, Novgorod-Severskii Province—11, Kharkov Province—15, Kursk Province—15, Orel Province—13, Kaluga Province—12, Tula Province—12, Ryazan Province—2, Vladimir Province—14, Nizhnii-Novgorod Province—13, Kazan Province—13, Simbirsk Province—13, Penza Province—13, Tambov Province—12, Voronezh Province—15, Saratov Province—11, Ufa Province—13, Kolyvan Province—5, Irkutsk Province—4, Kiev Province—10, Yekaterinoslav Province—15, Taurica Region—7, Caucasus Province—9, and Courland Province—9.

XXVII.   Non-Serving Invalid Commands [Komandy nesluzhashchikh Invalidov]: Life-Guards, Murom, Khlynsk, Kasimovsk, Arzamas, Shatsk, Tambov, Penza, Lebedyansk, Kozmodemyansk, Cheboksary, Kadomsk, Alatyrsk, Temnikovsk, Kerensk, Saransk, Nizhne-Lomovsk, Insarsk, Putivl, Pronsk, Kozelsk, Ryazhsk, Bezhetsk, Zaraisk, Syzransk, Urzhumsk, Yadrinsk, Kurmyshsk, Slobodsk, Kozlov, Sviyazh, and Verkhne-Lomovsk.

XXVIII.  Naval troops under the command of the War Collegium: Baltic Fleet—1st and 2nd Marine Regiments and 1st and 2nd Bombardier Battalions; Black-Sea Fleet—Grenadier Corps and Bombardier Battalion.

Apart for these forces, there were various military personnel in the field artillery supply train [Polevoi Artilleriiskii Furshtat], arsenals, laboratories, powder works, and Engineer administration.

The troops of the Heir, Grand Duke PAUL PETROVICH, the so-called Gatchina troops, consisted of: battalions—the Heir’s [Naslednika], Grand Duke ALEXANDER PAVLOVICH’S, Grand Duke CONSTANTINE PAVLOVICH’S, Colonel Arakcheev’s, Major Malyutin’s, and Major Nedobrov’s; Jäger Company; Cuirassier or Gendarme Regiment, Dragoon Regiment, Hussar Regiment, Cossack Regiment, and Artillery Company.

 

 

 

 

In the composition and naming of all these forces, during the Reign of EMPEROR PAUL I there took place the following changes:

   

I. FIELD INFANTRY [Polevaya Pekhota]
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7 November 1796 – The plan of 1795 to form ten Infantry regiments (Voznesensk, Bratslav, Podolia, Volhynia, Courland, Tiraspol, Odessa, Minsk, Vilna, and Kovno) is cancelled ⁽¹⁾.

19 November 1796 – Half of the Moscow Grenadier Regiment is detached and titled Major General Vadkovskii’s Grenadier Regiment ⁽²⁾.

22 November 1796 – This regiment is named the Pavlovsk Grenadier Regiment ⁽³⁾.

27 November 1796 – Arakcheev’s Musketeer Regiment is formed from personnel from the St.-Petersburg Garrison battalions ⁽⁴⁾.

29 November 1796 – The several Jäger corps are broken up into separate Jäger battalions, and six Musketeer regiments are formed from Field battalions, after which the Field Infantry was prescribed to consist of the following 13 Grenadier regiments, 62 Musketeer regiments, and 20 Jäger battalions:

a.) Grenadier regiments—Leib-Grenadier, Pavlovsk, Yekaterinoslav, St.-Petersburg, Astrakhan, Kiev, Moscow, Little Russia, Siberia, Phanagoria, Kherson, Taurica, and Caucasus.

b.) Musketeer regiments—Belozersk, Nasheburg, Chernigov, New Ingermanland, Yaroslavl, Apsheron, Smolensk, Ryazhsk, Kursk, Kozlov, Sevastopol, Belev, Aleksopol, Shlüsselburg, Bryansk, Troitsk, Ladoga, Polotsk, Archangel, Old Ingermanland, Novgorod, Nizhnii-Novgorod, Vitebsk, Azov, Orel, Reval, Tula, Yelets, Pskov, Tambov, Rostov, Murom, Staryi-Oskol, Tobolsk, Tiflis, Voronezh, Kazan, Moscow, Kabarda, Vladimir, Uglich, Sevsk, Narva, Dnieper, Vyatka, Suzdal, Kexholm, Viborg, Ryazan, Neva, Velikii-Luki, Ufa, Rylsk (the last three being from Orenburg Field battalions), Yekaterinburg, Selenginsk, Tomsk (all three being from former Siberia Field battalions), and Arkharov’s.

c.) Jäger battalions: from No. 1 through 20 inclusive.

Each Grenadier and each Musketeer regiment consisted of two battalions, of which a Grenadier battalion was of six Grenadier companies and a Musketeer battalion—of one Grenadier company and five Musketeer companies. A Jäger battalion consisted of five Jäger companies. In Grenadier battalions, one company was named a Flank company [Fligel-rota], so that there were two in each regiment ⁽⁵⁾.

3 December 1796 – All the above regiments and battalions were allotted among twelve divisions named after the inspectorates, into which divisions were also included Regular Cavalry regiments and some Garrisons ⁽⁶⁾. The distribution to divisions was as follows:

1.) St.-Petersburg Division – Leib and Pavlovsk Grenadiers; Kexholm, Belozersk, Yeletsk, and Arkharov’s Musketeers.

2.) Moscow Division – Astrakhan Grenadiers; Old Ingermanland, Viborg, Shlüsselburg, Yaroslavl, Nacheburg, Baden the Elder’s [Staro-Badenskii] (renamed from the Kozlov), and Ryazhsk Musketeers.

3.) Livonia [Liflyandskaya] Division – St.-Petersburg and Taurica Grenadiers; Rostov, Nizovsk, Kursk, Smolensk, Perm, Polotsk, and Voronezh Musketeers.

4.) Smolensk Division – Moscow and Phanagoria Grenadiers; Rostov, Nizovsk, Kursk, Smolensk, Perm, Polotsk, and Voronezh Musketeers.

5.) Lithuania [Litovskaya] Division – Yekaterinoslav Grenadiers; Apsheron, Tambov, Murom, Tula, Pskov, and Staryi-Oskol Musketeers; 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Jäger Battalions.

6.) Finland Division – Ryazan Grenadiers; Velikie-Luki and Neva Musketeers, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Jäger Battalions.

7.) Ukraine Division – Little-Russia and Kiev Grenadiers; Uglich, Vladimir, Moscow, New Ingermanland, Archangel, Narva, Bryansk, and Baden the Younger’s [Molodo-Badenskii] (renamed from the Butyrsk) Musketeers.

8.) Yekaterinoslav Division -  Siberia and Kherson Grenadiers; Azov, Orel, Novgorod, Nizhnii-Novgorod, Vyatka, Aleksopol, and Ladoga Mukseteers; 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th Jäger Battalions.

9.) Taurica Division (later named the Crimea Division) – Sevastopol, Vitebsk, Troitsk, and Belev Musketeers; 15th and 16th Jäger Battalions.

10.) Caucasus Division – Caucasus Grenadiers; Kabarda, Kazan, Suzdal, and Tiflis Musketeers; 17th and 18th Jäger Battalions.

11.) Orenburg Division – Rylsk, Ufa, and Yekaterinoslav Musketeers.

12.) Siberia Division – Shirvan, Tomsk, and Selenginsk Musketeers; 19th and 20th Jäger Battalions.

13 December 1796 – Flank companies in Grenadier regiments and grenadier companies in Musketeer regiments are ordered to form Combined Grenadier battalions [Svodnye Grenadirskie bataliony], which were named after the field-grade officers commanding them. They were formed from companies of the following regiments:  

1.) St.-Petersburg Division:
From companies of the Kexholm Musketeers and Arkharov’s Musketeer Regiment
    ”             ”          ”     Pavlovsk Grenadiers and Belozersk Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Yelets Musketeers and Ryazan Musketeers 

2.) Moscow Division:
From companies of the Old-Ingermanland Musketeers and Ryazhsk Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Kozlov Musketeers and Shlüsselburg Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Astrakhan Grenadiers and Yaroslavl Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Viborg Musketeers and Nasheburg Musketeers

3.) Livonia Division:
From companies of the St.-Petersburg Grenadiers and Taurica Grenadiers
    ”             ”          ”     Dnieper Musketeers and Tobolsk Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Reval Musketeers and Sevsk Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Sofiya Musketeers and Chernigov Musketeers

4.) Smolensk Division:
From companies of the Rostov Musketeers and Nizovsk Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Smolensk Musketeers and Kursk Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Polotsk Musketeers and Voronezh Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Moscow Grenadiers and Yekaterinoslav Grenadiers 

5.) Lithuania Division:
From companies of the Apsheron Musketeers and Murom Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Tambov Musketeers and Tula Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Polotsk Musketeers and Voronezh Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Stavropol Musketeers and Pskov Musketeers 

6.) Finland Division:
From companies of the Velikie-Luki Musketeers and Neva Musketeers 

7.) Ukraine Division:
From companies of the Little-Russia Grenadiers and Kiev Grenadiers
    ”             ”          ”     Vladimir Musketeers and New-Ingermanland Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Butyrsk Musketeers and Bryansk Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Narva Musketeers and Moscow Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Uglich Musketeers and Archangel Musketeers

8.) Yekaterinoslav Division:
From companies of the Siberia Grenadiers and Kherson Grenadiers
    ”             ”          ”     Azov Musketeers and Orel Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Novgorod Musketeers and Nizhnii-Novgorod Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Vyatka Musketeers and Aleksopol Musketeers 

9.) Taurica Division:
From companies of the Sevastopol Musketeers and Vitebsk Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Troitsk Musketeers and Belev Musketeers 

10.) Caucasus Division:
From companies of the Suzdal Musketeers and Tiflis Musketeers
    ”             ”          ”     Kazan Musketeers and Kabarda Musketeers 

11.) Orenburg Division:
From companies of the Rylsk Musketeers and Ufa Musketeers

12.) Siberia Division:
From companies of the Shirvan Musketeers and Tomsk Musketeers   

This listing was made in accordance with the distribution of troop quarters and thus changed at various times during the rest of EMPEROR PAUL I’s reign. In the Ladoga Musketeers, as well as the Caucasus Grenadiers and Yekaterinburg and Estonia Musketeers, companies were not detached to form combined battalions: the last three because their quarters were so far from other regiments and the first because in the Yekaterinoslav Division, to which it belonged, there was no other regiment left over for detaching companies ⁽⁷⁾.

16 January 1797 – The Leib-Grenadier Regiment, of two battalions, is reformed as four battalions, with each battalion to have five companies ⁽⁸⁾.

17 May 1797 – Jäger battalions are renamed as regiments, keeping their previous numbers and bringing them to a two-battalion organization, with each battalion to have five companies ⁽⁹⁾.

14 September 1797 – Arkharov’s Musketeer Regiment is named Maj.-Gen. Graf Elmpt’s Musketeer Regiment ⁽¹⁰⁾.

22 September 1797 – The Yekaterinoslav Division is named the Dnieper Division ⁽¹¹⁾.

11 January 1798 – The Yekaterinoslav Grenadier Regiment is named the Pskov Grenadier Regiment ⁽¹²⁾.

20 August 1798 – New musketeer regiments, formed from recruits, are named after their chefs: Maj.-Gen. Pavlutskii’s, Maj.-Gen. Leitner’s, Maj.-Gen. Brant’s, Maj.-Gen. Müller 1st’s [Millera 1-go], Maj.-Gen. Marklovskii 1st’s, and Maj.-Gen. von Berg’s [fon-Berkha] ⁽¹³⁾.

2 October 1798 – The Kexholm, Yelets, and Belozersk Musketeer Regiments are named after their chefs: the first as Maj.-Gen. Sukov’s Musketeers, the second as Maj.-Gen. Vadkovskii’s, and the third as Lt.-Gen. Budkevich’s ⁽¹⁴⁾.

18 October 1798 – The Old-Ingermanland Musketeer Regiment is named Maj.-Gen. von Klugen’s, and Maj.-Gen. Graf Elmpt’s (formerly Arkharov’s) is named Maj.-Gen. Ukolov’s Musketeer Regiment ⁽¹⁵⁾.

21 October 1798 – The last regiment above is named Maj.-Gen. Graf Elmpt’s Musketeers for the second time, and the New Ingermanland as Maj.-Gen. Baron Rosen’s [Rozena] Musketeers ⁽¹⁶⁾.

24 October 1798 – The Kiev Grenadier Regiment is named Gen.-of-Inf. Bekleshov’s Grenadier Regiment ⁽¹⁷⁾.

26 October 1798 – The Vyatka Musketeer Regiment is named Maj.-Gen. Samarin’s Musketeer Regiment ⁽¹⁸⁾.

31 October 1798 – All Grenadier (except the Leib-Grenadiers), Musketeer, and Jäger regiments are ordered to be named after their Chefs. Consequently, they received the following designations, with subsequent changes ⁽¹⁹⁾:

Pavlovsk Grenadiers – from 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Emme’s Grenadiers; 8 April 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Kerbits’.

Pskov Grenadiers (formerly Yekaterinoslav) – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Baron von der Osten-Sacken 1st’s; 24 October 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Palitsyn’s.

St.-Petersburg Grenadiers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Prince Golitsyn 2nd’s; 24 March 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Prince Volkonskii 3rd’s; 3 May 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Safonov’s; 2 January 1801 – Lt.-Gen. Baron fon der Osten-Sacken 1st’s.

Astrakhan Grenadiers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Borozdin 1st’s; 19 February 1799 – Lt.-Gen. the Crown Prince of Mecklenburg’s.

Gen.-of-Inf. Bekleshov’s Grenadiers (formerly Kiev) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Gen.-of-Inf. Bekleshov’s; 7 June 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Passeck’s [Passeka].

Moscow Grenadiers – 31 October 1798 – Gen.-of-Inf. Rosenberg’s [Rozenberga]; 8 June 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Prince Carl of Mecklenberg’s.

Little-Russia Grenadiers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Radt’s; 19 November 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Berg’s.

Siberia Grenadiers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Lyapunov’s; 31 March 1800 – Maj. Gen. Bakhmetev 3rd’s.

Phanagoria Grenadiers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Zherebtsov’s; 27 September 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Mamaev’s.

Kherson Grenadiers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Galberg’s; 6 November 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Titov 1st’s.

Taurica Grenadiers – 31 October 1798 – Gen.-of-Inf. Benkendorf’s; 13 September 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Zavalishin’s; 14 September 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Danzas’s.

Kazan Grenadiers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Graf Morkov’s; 10 November 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Tuchkov 2nd’s.

Lt.-Gen. Budkevich’s Musketeers (formerly Belozersk) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Lt.-Gen. Budkevich’s; 30 April 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Kulnev’s; 13 May 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Sedmoratskii’s.

Nasheburg Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Kropotov’s; 5 November 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Vilembakhov’s; 24 December 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Yermolov’s.

Chernigov Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Essen 1st’s; 30 October 1799 - Maj.-Gen.de Gervais’s [de-Zherve]; 2 November 1800 - Lt.-Gen.Essen 1st’s.

Maj.-Gen. Baron Rosen’s Musketeers (formerly New Ingermanland) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Baron Rosen’s.

Yaroslav Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen.Durasov’s; 11 October 1799 - Maj.-Gen. Lasunskii 1st’s.

Apsheron Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Miloradovich’s.

Smolensk Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen.Povalo-Shveikovskii 1st’s; 10 September 1800 - Lt.-Gen.Borozdin 1st’s; 6 October 1800 - Maj.-Gen.Repninskii’s.

Ryazhsk Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Sedmoratskii’s; 13 May 1799 - Lt.-Gen.Graf Langeron’s [Lanzherona].

Kursk Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Prshibyshevskii’s.

Baden the Elder’s Musketeers (formerly Kozlov) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Baden the Elder’s; 20 June 1799 - Maj.-Gen.Prince Volkonskii 2nd’s; 25 January 1800 - Maj.-Gen.Maksheev’s.

Sevastopol Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Gen.-of-Inf. Graf Kakhovskii’s; 13 February 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Serbin’s.

Belev Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Mansurov 1st’s.

Aleksopol Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Hagenmeister’s [Gagenmeistera]; 26 June 1800 - Maj.-Gen.Loveika’s.

Shlüsselburg Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Izmailov’s.

Bryansk Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Olsufev’s; 24 September 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Lüders’ [Lidersa].

Troitsk Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Borozdin 2nd’s.

Ladoga Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Katenin’s; 5 April 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Sukin 2nd’s.

Polotsk Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Snazin’s; 7 May 1799 - Maj.-Gen.Tinkov’s.

Archangel Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Baron Delgam’s; 28 June 1799 - Maj.-Gen.Graf Kamenskii 2nd’s.

Maj.-Gen. von Klugen’s Musketeers (formerly Old Ingermanland) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen.von Klugen’s; 2 March 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Steingel’s; 1 August 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Graf Razumovskii’s; 5 February 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Engelhardt’s.

Novgorod Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen.Graf Szembek’s [Shembeka]; 24 April 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Fertch’s.

Nizhnii-Novgorod Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Samarin 1st’s; 1 October 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Khitrov’s.

Vitebsk Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Ostrozhskii; 16 February 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Kassagovskii’s; 4 March 1801 – Maj. Gen. Emme’s; 5 March 1801 – Maj.-Gen. Musin-Pushkin’s.

Azov Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Rebinder’s; 3 October 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Selekhov’s.

Orel Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Mansurov 2nd’s; 18 December 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Brunov’s.

Reval Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Khotuntsev’s.

Tula Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Tyrtov’s; 9 January 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Baron Drexel’s [Drekselya].

Maj.-Gen. Vadkovskii’s Musketeers (formerly Yelets) – 31 October 1798 – as previously,  Maj.-Gen.Vadkovskii’s; 15 October 1799 – Maj.-Gen. de Gervais’s [de-Zherve]; 30 October 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Vitovtov’s; 4 July 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Yefimovich’s.

Pskov Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Gen.-Field Marshal Prince Repnin’s; 26 November 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Markov’s; 27 November 1798 – Gen.-of-Inf. de Lacy’s [de-Lassiya]: 26 October 1799 – Gen.-of-Inf. Golenishchev-Kutuzov’s.

Tambov Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Ferster’s [Fershtera].

Rostov Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Rimskii-Korsakov’s; 24 October 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Povalo-Shveikovskii 2nd’s; 26 October 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Kolokol’tsov’s; Maj.-Gen. Stellikh’s; 2 April 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Bussov’s; 10 August 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Mitskii’s.

Murom Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Masalov’s; 16 November 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Shilling 2nd’s; 17 November 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Titov’s; 18 November 1798 – Gen.-of-Inf. de Lacy’s [de-Lassiya]; 27 November 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Markov 1st’s; 24 October 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Alekseev’s; 26 October 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Povalo-Shveikovskii 2nd’s; 23 September 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Petrovskii’s.

Staryi-Oskol Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Kozlov’s; 3 January 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Bykov’s.

Tobolsk Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Baron Fersen’s [Ferzena]; 14 January 1801 - Maj.-Gen.Garin’s.

Tiflis Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Stremoukhov’s; 8 October 1800 - Maj.-Gen.Leont’ev’s.

Voronezh Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. von Eckeln’s [fon Ekel’na]; 29 January 1799 - Maj.-Gen.Arsen’ev 2nd’s.

Kazan Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Kiselev’s; 24 February 1799 - Maj.-Gen. Briesemann von Nettig’s [Brizeman-fon-Nettinga]; 2 March 1799 - Lt.-Gen. Knorring 2nd’s.

Moscow Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Fensch’s [Fensha].

Kabarda Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Arsen’ev 1st’s; 17 December 1799 - Maj.-Gen. Kochius’s [Kokhiusa]; 29 January 1800 - Maj.-Gen.Gulyakov’s.

Vladimir Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Gen.-of-Inf. Graf Gudovich 2nd’s; 8 June 1800 – Gen.-of-Inf. Rosenberg’s [Rozenberga].

Uglich Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Konovnitsyn’s; 2 November 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Korf’s; 20 February 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Baron Gersdorff’s [Gerzdorfa].

Sevsk Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Tuchkov 1st’s.

Narva Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Rothof’s [Rodgofa].

Dnieper Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Arbenev’s; 24 October 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Vyazmitinov’s; 19 May 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Konovich’s.

Maj.-Gen. Samarin 2nd’s Musketeers (formerly Vyatka) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Samarin 2nd’s; 18 February 1799 – Maj.-Gen. von Manteufel’s [Manteifelya].

Suzdal Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Glazov 2nd’s; 27 May 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Likhachev 2nd’s; 12 January 1801 – Maj.-Gen. Shenshin’s.

Maj.-Gen. Sukov’s Musketeers (formerly Kexholm) – 31 October 1798 – as previously,  Maj.-Gen. Sukov’s; 4 December 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Verderevskii’s.

Vyborg Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Essen 3rd’s; 18 August 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Gandza 1st’s [Gandzha 1-go].

Ryazan Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Gen.-of-Inf. Golenishchev-Kutuzov’s; 26 October 1799 - Maj.-Gen. Alekseev’s.

Neva Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Prince Volkonskii 1st’s; 25 January 1800 – Lt.-Gen. Prince Gorchakov 1st’s.

Velikie-Luki Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Glazov 1st’s; 21 November 1799 - Maj.-Gen. Vyatkin’s; 19 January 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Castelli’s [Kastelliya].

Sofiya Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Dokhturov’s; 22 July 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Gavro’s; 1 January 1801 - Maj.-Gen. Nechaev’s.

Shirvan Musketeers – 31 October 1798 - Maj.-Gen. Prince Gorchakov’s; 1 November 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Nefed’ev’s; 13 August 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Prince Volkonskii 3rd’s; 15 October 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Lavrov’s.

Perm Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Pushchin 2nd’s; 3 January 1800 – Maj.-Gen. von Hartung’s [Gartunga]; 11 December 1800 – Lt.-Gen. von Ritter’s.

Nizovsk Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. L’vov 1st’s; 16 January 1799 - Maj.-Gen. Baranovskii 2nd’s; 28 January 1801 – Lt.-Gen. Graf Szembek’s [Shembeka].

Baden the Younger’s Musketeers (formerly Butyrsk) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Baden the Younger’s; 20 June 1799 -  Maj.-Gen. Veletskii’s; 16 September 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Malyshkin’s.

Ufa Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Graf Langeron’s [Lanzherona]; 4 February 1799 - Maj.-Gen.Engelhardt’s [Engel’gardta]; 18 October 1799 - Maj.-Gen. Verderevskii’s; 19 May 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Tsybul’skii’s.

Rylsk Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Bakhmet’ev 1st’s.

Yekaterinburg Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Pevtsov’s.

Selenginsk Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Skobel’tsyn’s; 2 November 1799 - Maj.-Gen.von Düsterloh 2nd’s [Disterlo 2-go]; 4 November 1799 - Maj.-Gen. Talyzin 3rd’s; 27 August 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Kupferschmidt’s [Kupfershmita].

Tomsk Musketeers – 31 October 1798 - Maj.-Gen. Graf Ivelich 1st’s; 14 December 1798 - Maj.-Gen. Pavlutskii’s; 2 November 1799 – Brigadier Lavrov’s; 15 October 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Graf Tiesenhausen’s [Tizengauzena]; 16 October 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Prince Vyazemskii’s.

Maj.-Gen. Graf Elmpt’s Musketeers (formerly Arkharov’s) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Graf Elmpt’s; 10 March 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Fomin’s; 11 March 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Borozdin 1st’s; 3 May 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Prince Gorchakov 3rd’s; 18 June 1800  Maj.-Gen. Kupriyanov’s;  26 September 1800 - Maj.-Gen. von Grunentals 1st’s [Grinentalya 1-go];  27 October 1800 - Maj.-Gen. Prince Shcherbatov’s.

Maj.-Gen. Pavlutskii’s Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Pavlutskii’s; 14 December 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Graf Ivelich 1st’s; 15 December 1799 - Maj.-Gen. Runich 1st’s.

Maj.-Gen. Brant’s Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Brant’s; 22 April 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Merkulov’s; 14 December 1800 - Maj.-Gen Kashkin’s.

Maj.-Gen. Leitner’s Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Leitner’s; 29 January 1800 – Lt.-Gen. Nesvetev’s.

Maj.-Gen. Müller 1st’s Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Müller 1st’s.

Maj.-Gen. Marklovskii 1st’s Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Marklovskii 1st’s; 6 October 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Prince Gorchakov 3rd’s; 13 October 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Anikeev’s.

Maj.-Gen. Berg’s Musketeers – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Berg’s; 7 February 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Baklanovskii’s.

1st Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Suthoff’s [Sutgofa].

2nd Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Michelson 2nd’s [Mikhel’sona 2-go]; 10 August 1800 – Col. Steder’s [Shtedera]; 4 September 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Michelson 2nd’s.

3rd Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Gvozdev’s.

4th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Barclay de Tolly’s.

5th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Vorob’ev’s; 6 March 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Titov 2nd’s; 27 July 1800 – Col. Ivanov’s; 18 December 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Prince Volkonskii 3rd’s; 20 December – Maj.-Gen. von Bradke’s.

6th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Fock 1st’s [Foka 1-go]; 3 January 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Alfimov’s.

7th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Prince Bagration’s; 9 June 1800 – Col. Graf Ivelich 3rd’s.

8th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Chubarov’s; 13 May 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Müller’s [Millera].

9th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Gramsdorf; 9 July 1800 – Col. Prioudo’s (Prioudeaux?) [Priudy].

10th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Mainov’s; 6 March 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Weidemeyer’s [Veidemeiera].

11th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Col. Ivanov’s; 17 January 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Markov’s.

12th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Col. Balla’s; 8 May 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Stoyanov’s; 2 March 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Balla’s.

13th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Kashkin’s; 27 September 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Gangeblov’s.

14th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Baggehufvudt’s [Baggovuta]; 27 July 1800 – Col. Prince Vyazemskii’s.

15th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Kuprin’s; 27 November 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Drashkevich’s; 15 December 1800 – Col. Steder’s [Shtedera].

16th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Nasokin’s; 27 November 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Verevkin’s; 4 July 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Leichner’s [Leikhnera]; 15 January 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Stempel’s [Shtempelya].

17th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Likhachev’s.

18th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Lazarev’s.

19th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Baron Güldenskjiold’s [Gil’denshol’da]; 13 April 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Prince Orbelian’s; 8 May 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Voeikov’s.

20th Jägers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Shishkov’s; 30 May 1800 – Col. Kornitskii’s.

27 January 1800 – One more regiment was added to the field infantry, the Senate Regiment [Senatskii polk], renamed from the Senate Battalion and at the same time brought to a strength of two battalions ⁽²⁰⁾.

28 January 1800 – This regiment is named Major General Martens’ Musketeer Regiment, and on 2 April 1800—renamed Major General Ushakov’s ⁽²¹⁾.

8 March 1800 – Suthoff’s Jäger Regiment (formerly the 1st) is disbanded ⁽²²⁾.

27 September 1800 – Combined Grenadier battalions are ordered to be called simply Grenadier battalions ⁽²³⁾. Two Musketeer regiments were designated to be formed: Baron Sprengtporten’s [Sprengportena] and Sakin’s, but these never completed their organization ⁽²⁴⁾.

6 October 1800 – A new Inspectorate was established: the Kharkov Inspectorate, which included the regiments of Merkulov (formed in 1798 as Maj.-Gen. Brant’s), Müller 1st (formed 1799), and Prince Gorchakov 3rd’s (formed 1798 as Maj.-Gen. Marklovskii 1st’s ⁽²⁵⁾.

In this same year yet another new Inspectorate was formed: the Brest Inspectorate ⁽²⁶⁾.

 

After all these changes, at the death of EMPEROR PAUL I the regiments of field infantry were as follows:

a)  Grenadiers – Leib-Grenadiers, Kerbits’s (former Pavlovsk), Palitsyn’s (Yekaterinoslav), Sacken 1st’s (St.-Petersburg), Crown Prince of Mecklenberg’s (Astrakhan), Passek’s (Kiev), Prince Carl of Mecklenberg’s (Moscow), Berg’s (Little Russia), Bakhmetev 3rd’s (Siberia), Mamaev’s (Phanagoria), Titov 1st’s (Kherson), Danzas’s (Taurica), Tuchkov 2nd’s (Caucasus).

b)  Musketeers - Sedmoratskii’s ( Belozersk),  Yermolov’s (Nasheburg), Essen 1st’s (Chernigov), Rosen’s (New Ingermanland) Lasunskii 1st’s (Yaroslav), Miloradovich’s (Apsheron), Repninskii’s (Smolensk), Langeron’s (Ryazhsk), Prshibyshevskii’s (Kursk), Maksheev’s (Kozlov), Serbin’s (Sevastopol), Mansurov 1st’s (Belev), Loveika’s (Aleksopol), Izmailov’s (Shlüsselburg), Lüders’(Bryansk), Troitsk (Borozdin 2nd’s), Sukin 2nd’s (Ladoga), (Polotsk) Tinkov’s, Graf Kamenskii 2nd’s (Archangel), Engelhardt’s (Old Ingermanland), Fertch’s (Novgorod), Khitrov’s (Nizhnii-Novgorod), Musin-Pushkin’s (Vitebsk), Selekhov’s (Azov), Brunov’s (Orel), Khotuntsev’s (Reval), Drexel’s (Tula), Yefimovich’s (Yelets), Golenishchev-Kutuzov’s (Pskov), Ferster’s (Tambov), Mitskii’s (Rostov), Petrovskii’s (Murom), Bykov’s (Staryi-Oskol), Garin’s (Tobolsk), Leont’ev’s (Tiflis), Arsen’ev’s (Voronezh), Knorring 2nd’s (Kazan), Fensch’s (Moscow), Gulyakov’s (Kabarda), Rosenberg’s (Vladimir), Gersdorff’s (Uglich), Tuchkov 1st’s (Sevsk), Rothof’s (Narva), Konovich’s (Dnieper), Manteufel’s (Vyatka), Shenshin’s (Suzdal), Verderevskii’s (Kexholm), Gandza 1st’s (Vyborg), Alekseev’s (Ryazan), Prince Gorchakov 1st’s (Neva), Castelli’s (Velikie-Luki), Nechaev’s (Sofiya), Lavrov’s (Shirvan), Ritter’s (Perm), Graf Szembek’s (Nizovsk), Malyshkin’s (Butyrsk), Tsybul’skii’s (Ufa), Bakhmet’ev 1st’s (Rylsk), Pevtsov’s (Yekaterinburg), Kupferschmidt’s (Selenginsk), Prince Vyazemskii’s (Tomsk), Prince Shcherbatov’s (formerly Arkharov’s), Runich 1st’s (formerly Pavlutskii’s), Kashkin’s (formerly Brant’s), Nesvetev’s (formerly Leitner’s), Müller 1st’s, Anikeev’s (formerly Marklovskii 1st’s), Baklanovskii’s (formerly Berg’s), Ushakov’s (formerly Senate).

c)  Jägers - Michelson 2nd’s (formerly the 2nd), Gvozdev’s (3rd), Barclay de Tolly’s (4th), Bradke’s (5th), Alfimov’s (6th), Graf Ivelich 3rd’s (7th), Müller’s (8th) Prioudo’s (9th), Weidemeyer’s (10th), Markov’s (11th), Balla’s (12th), Gangeblov’s (13th), Prince Vyazemskii’s (14th), Steder’s (15th), Stempel’s (16th), Likhachev’s (17th), Lazarev’s (18th), Voeikov’s (19th), Kornitskii’s (20th).

 

 

   

II. CAVALRY [Kavaleriya]
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17 November 1796 – The Heir’s Cuirassier Regiment is renamed HIS MAJESTY’S Leib-Cuirassier Regiment [Leib-Kirasirskii EGO VELICHSTVA polk], and the Leib-Cuirassier Regiment—HER MAJESTY’S Leib-Cuirassier Regiment [Leib-Kirasirskii EYA VELICHESTVA polk] ⁽²⁷⁾.

29 November 1796 – Prince Potemkin’s Cuirassier Regiment is named, as formerly, the Yekaterinoslav Cuirassier Regiment, and the Military Order Horse-Grenadier Regiment—the Little-Russia Cuirassier Regiment [Malorossiiskii Kirasirskii polk]. The Riga, Ryazan, Yamburg, Sofiya, Glukhov, Kiev, Chernigov, Nezhin, and Starodub Carabiniers, and the Kharkov Light Horse, are renamed as Cuirassiers. The Narva, Kargopol, Rostov, Moscow, Ingermanland, and Seversk Carabiniers are renamed as Dragoons. The Mariupol, Pavlograd, Aleksandriya, Akhtyrka, Sumy, and Izyum Light Horse, and the Yelisavetgrad Horse Jäger are renamed as Hussars. The Tver Carabiniers, the Kinburn Dragoons, and the Kherson, Poltava, Ostrorog, and Ukraine Light Horse, as well as the Pereyaslavl, Kiev, and Taurica Horse Jäger regiments, and the Hussar squadrons with the Pskov Dragoon Regiment are all disbanded. All Hussar regiments are named after their Chefs. Consequently the Regular Cavalry consisted of the following 16 Cuirassier, 16 Dragoon, and 8 Hussar regiments, with an additional 2 squadrons of Hussars with the Moscow Police.

a) Cuirassier regiments – HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY’S Leib-Cuirassiers, HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY’S Leib-Cuirassiers, Military Order, Yekaterinoslav, Kazan, Ryazan, Yamburg, Glukhov, Kiev, Nezhin, Sofiya, Starodub, Chernigov, Riga, Kharkhov, and Little-Russia.

b) Dragoon regiments – Astrakhan, Vladimir, Nizhnii-Novgorod, Pskov, St.-Petersburg, Smolensk, Taganrog, Irkutsk, Orenburg, Siberia, Ingermanland, Narva, Rostov, Moscow, Seversk, and Kargopol.

c) Hussar regiments – Bour’s (formerly Pavlograd), Borovskii’s (formerly Mariupol), Godlevskii’s (formerly Aleksandriya), Shevich’s (formerly Sumy), Lindener’s (formerly Akhtyrka), Dunin’s (formerly Yelisavetgrad), Schiets’s (formerly Olviopol), and Izyum, which kept its previous name until a chef was appointment.

Each Cuirassier and Dragoon regiment consisted of five squadrons, while Hussar regiments consisted of ten ⁽²⁸⁾.

3 December 1796 – Following the example of the Infantry, Cavalry regiments were also distributed among divisions ⁽²⁹⁾:

1. In the St.-Petersburg Division – both Leib-Cuirassier regiments.
2. Moscow Division – Yekaterinoslav and Sofiya Cuirassiers; Rostov Dragoons; Shevich’s (former Sumy) and Lindener’s (former Akhtyrka) Hussars.
3. Livonia Division – Starodub, Riga, Kazan, Kiev, and Military Order Cuirassiers, and Izyum Hussars.
4. Smolensk Division – St.-Petersburg and Kargopol Dragoons.
5. Lithuania Division – Moscow and Ingermanland Dragoons, and Godlev’s (former Aleksandriya) Hussars.
6. Finland Division – Pskov Dragoons.
7. Ukraine Division – Kharkov, Little-Russia, Chernigov, Nezhin, and Yamburg Cuirassiers; Borovskii’s (former Mariupol) and Bour’s (former Pavlograd) Hussars.
8. Yekaterinoslav Division – Glukhov and Ryazan Cuirassiers; Seversk and Astrakhan Dragoons; Dunin’s (former Yelisavegrad) and Schiets’s (former Olviopol) Hussars.
9. Taurica Division – Smolensk Dragoons.
10. Caucasus Division – Taganrog, Nizhnii-Novgorod, Narva, and Vladimir Dragoons.
11. Orenburg Division – Orenburg Dragoons.
12. Siberia Division – Siberia and Irkutsk Dragoons.

25 December 1796 – The Izyum Hussar Regiment is named Maj.-Gen. Zorich’s Hussars ⁽³⁰⁾.

9 June 1797 – The Tatar-Lithuanian Horse Regiment [Konnyi Tatarskii-Litovskii polk], consisting of ten squadrons, is formed from natives of the annexed Polish provinces ⁽³¹⁾.

26 June 1797 – The Polish Horse Regiment [Konnyi Pol’skii polk], consisting of ten squadrons, is also formed from natives of those provinces ⁽³²⁾.

15 September 1797 – Lt.-Gen. Zorich’s Hussar Regiment (formerly Izyum) is named Maj.-Gen. Annenkov’s Hussar Regiment ⁽³³⁾.

9 October 1797 – Maj.-Gen. Godlevskii’s Hussar Regiment (formerly Aleksandriya) is named Maj.-Gen. Gizycki’s [Gizhitskago] Hussar Regiment ⁽³⁴⁾.

16 October 1797 – Maj.-Gen. Borovskii’s Hussar Regiment (formerly Mariupol) is named Maj.-Gen. Prince Bagration’s Hussar Regiment ⁽³⁵⁾.

13 March 1798 – Dunin’s Hussar Regiment (formerly Yelisavetgrad) is named Maj.-Gen. Voropanskii’s Hussar Regiment ⁽³⁶⁾.

10 August 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Annenkov’s Hussar Regiment (formerly Izyum) is named Maj.-Gen. Tregubov’s Hussar Regiment ⁽³⁷⁾.

20 August 1798 – New Cuirassier regiments are formed: Lieutenant General Neplyuev’s, Major General Frederici’s [Frideritsiya], and Major General Zorn’s [Tsorna] New Hussar regiments are formed: Major General Schreiders 1st’s and Khastatov’s. Major General Czorba’s [Chorby] Hussar Regiment is formed. ⁽³⁸⁾.

23 September 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Prince Bagration’s Hussar Regiment (formerly Mariupol) is named Maj.-Gen. Prince Kekuatov’s Hussar Regiment ⁽³⁹⁾.

30 September 1798 – The Astrakhan, Rostov, and Irkutsk Dragoon Regiments are ordered to be named after their Chefs: the first – Major General L’vov’s Dragoons, the second – Major General von Derviz’s, and the third – Major General Sacken’s ⁽⁴⁰⁾.

5 October 1798 – The Seversk Dragoon Regiment is named, as before, Major General Düsterloh’s [Disterlo] Dragoon Regiment, and the Kharkov Cuirassier Regiment—Major General Zaplatin’s Cuirassier Regiment ⁽⁴¹⁾.

15 October 1798 – The Riga Cuirassier Regiment is named Major General Müller’s [Millera] Cuirassier Regiment ⁽⁴²⁾.

18 October 1798 – The Yamburg Cuirassier Regiment is named Major General Prince Chevkin’s Cuirassier Regiment ⁽⁴³⁾.

25 October 1798 – Major General Zaplatin’s Cuirassier Regiment (formerly Kharkov) is named Major General Romadanovskii-Ladyzhenskii’s Cuirassier Regiment, and the Little-Russia Cuirassier Regiment—Major General Kostylev’s Cuirassier Regiment ⁽⁴⁴⁾.

26 October 1798 – Major General Gizycki’s Hussar Regiment (formerly Aleksandriya) is named Major General Nikorits’s Hussar Regiment ⁽⁴⁵⁾.

31 October 1798 – All Cavalry regiments are ordered to be named after their Chefs. As a result they received the following titles, with subsequent changes ⁽⁴⁶⁾:

HIS MAJESTY’S Leib-Cuirassiers and HER MAJESTY’S Leib-Cuirassiers – kept their names.

Military Order Cuirassiers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Tormasov’s; 11 July 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Sacken 4th’s; 22 February 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Gamper’s; 21 June 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Prince Golitsyn 5th’s.

Yekaterinoslav Cuirassiers – 31 October 1798 – General-Field Marshal Graf Saltykov 2nd’s.

Kazan Cuirassiers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Bordakov’s; 7 February 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Musin-Pushkin’s; 11 March 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Leviz’s; 23 July 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Graf Golovin’s.

Ryazan Cuirassiers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. von Riedel’s [fon-Ridelya] ; 23 October 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Chernysh’s ; 17 December 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Marquis de Lambert’s.

Maj.-Gen. Chevkin’s Cuirssiers (formerly Yamburg) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Chevkin’s; 4 June 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Helfreich’s [Gel’freikha]; 23 January 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Prince Gorchakov 4th’s.

Glukhov Cuirassiers – 31 October 1798 – Gen.-of-Cav. Michelson 1st’s [Mikhel’sona 1-go]; 13 February 1800 – Lt.-Gen. von Brincken’s [Brinkena].

Kiev Cuirassiers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Shuvalov’s; 21 January 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Cozens’s [Kozensa]; 23 January 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Svechin 3rd’s; 15 July 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Zabolotskii’s.

Nezhin Cuirassiers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Gudovich 4th’s; 30 January 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Berladskii’s.

Sofiya Cuirassiers – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Prince Golitsyn 1st’s; 27 November 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Karab’in’s; 25 April 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Graf Igelström’s; 9 July 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Barkov’s.

Starodub Cuirassiers – 31 October 1798 – Gen.-of-Cav. Numsen’s; 15 April 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Voinov’s.

Chernigov Cuirassiers – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Essen 2nd’s ; 20 December 1800 – Lt.-Gen. Musin-Pushkin’s.

Maj.-Gen. Müller 2nd’s Cuirassiers (formerly Riga) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Müller 2nd’s; 7 May 1800 – Lt.-Gen. Prince Alexander of Württemberg’s; 9 September 1800 – Col. Khomyakov’s; 10 September 1800 – Lt.-Gen. Prince Alexander of Württemberg’s.

Maj.-Gen. Prince Romadanovskii-Ladyzhenskii’s Cuirassiers (formerly Kharkov) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Prince Romadanovskii-Ladyzhenskii’s; 23 January 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Cozens’s.

Maj.-Gen. Kostylev’s Cuirassiers (formerly Little-Russia) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Kostylev’s; 23 January 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Prince Romadanovskii-Ladyzhenskii’s.

Maj.-Gen. Neplyuev 1st’s Cuirassiers – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Neplyuev 1st’s; 8 September 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Kamenev’s; 2 March 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Zimmerman’s [Tsimmermana].

Maj.-Gen. Friderici’s Cuirassiers – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Friderici’s; 19 December 1799 – Maj.-Gen. von Knorring 3rd’s.

Maj.-Gen. Zorn’s Cuirassiers – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Zorn’s;

Vladimir Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Obrezkov 1st’s, but from 3 April 1800 combined with the Taganrog Regiment.

Maj.-Gen. L’vov 2nd’s Dragoons (formerly Astrakhan) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. L’vov 2nd’s.

Nizhnii-Novgorod Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Grushetskii’s, but from 3 April 1800 combined with the Narva Regiment.

Pskov Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Baron von-der-Osten-Sacken 3rd’s; 11 March 1799 – Prince Eugene of Württemberg’s.

St.-Petersburg Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Shepelev’s; 27 October 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Engelhardt’s.

Smolensk Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. von Brincken’s; 13 Feburary 1800 – Gen.-of-Cav. Michelson 1st’s.

Taganrog Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Ivashev’s; 30 November 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Lang’s, but from 3 April 1800 combined with the Vladimir Regiment.

Maj.-Gen. Sacken 2nd’s Dragoons (formerly Irkutsk) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Sacken 2nd’s, but from 3 April 1800 combined with the Siberia Regiment.

Orenburg Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Veovodskii’s.

Siberia Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – Gen.-of-Cav. de Vioménil’s [Deviomenilya]; 4 February 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Prince Odoevskii’s; 3 March 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Zimin’s, but from 3 April 1800 combined with the Irkutsk Regiment.

Ingermanland Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Graf Kinson’s; 14 September 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Khomyakov’s.

Narva Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Friese’s [Friza]; 26 January 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Pushkin’s, but from 3 April 1800 combined with the Nizhnii-Novgorod Regiment.

Maj.-Gen. fon Derwies’s Dragoons (formerly Rostov) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. fon Derwies’s [fon-Derviza]; 23 August 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Schreiders 2nd’s; 13 November 1799 – Gen.-of-Cav. Marquis d’Autichamp’s [Dotishampa]; 30 December 1799 – vacant; 24 January 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Schreiders 2nd’s.

Moscow Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Svechin 2nd’s; 3 May 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Bezobrazov’s.

Maj.-Gen. fon Düsterloh’s Dragoons (formerly Seversk) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. fon Düsterloh’s; 28 May 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Yesipov’s.

Kargopol Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – Lt.-Gen. Gudovich 6th’s; 18 September 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Graf Pahlen 3rd’s.

Maj.-Gen. Schreiders 1st’s Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Schreiders 1st’s; 15 October 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Glovenskii’s; 23 November 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Müller 2nd’s.

Maj.-Gen. Khastatov’s Dragoons – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Khastatov’s; 9 February 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Glazenapp’s.

Lt.-Gen. Bour’s Hussars (formerly Pavlograd) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Lt.-Gen. Bour’s.

Gen.-of-Cav. Shevich’s Hussars (formerly Sumy) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, 29 March 1799 – Gen.-of-Cav. Shevich’s; 29 March 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Lykoshin’s; 24 October 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Golovin’s; 12 April 1800 – Lt.-Gen. Kologrivov’s; 21 October 1800 – Col. Glebov’s; 1 December 1800 – Lt.-Gen. Graf Zubov’s.

Maj.-Gen. Prince Kekuatov’s Hussars (formerly Mariupol) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Prince Kekuatov’s; 20 June 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Wittgenstein’s; 1 January 1801 – Maj.-Gen. Melissino’s.

Maj.-Gen. Nikoritsa’s Hussars (formerly Aleksandriya) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Nikoritsa’s; 2 October 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Telepnev’s; 5 May 1800 – Col. Kishinskii’s.

Maj.-Gen. Tregubov’s Hussars (formerly Izyum) – 31 October 1798 – as previously, Maj.-Gen. Tregubov’s; 2 November 1798 – Maj.-Gen. Klyucharevskii’s; 28 March 1799 – Maj.-Gen. Bobyr’s; 14 September 1800 – Maj.-Gen. Graf Pahlen 2nd’s.