Infantry
Kyrsk, Ekaterinburg, Selinguisk infantry regiments and the 18th Jagers.
Artillery
The 23rd Heavy and the 43rd and 44th Light Companies.
Cavalry
8 squadrons of Isum hussars.
The 5th CORPS, the GUARD (17 000 men)
(theoretically the Corps of the Grand-Duke Constantin, who was absent)
• THE GUARDS DIVISION
Infantry
Preobrajenski, Izmailovski, Semenovski, Lithuanian infantry regiments, the jagers of the Guard, the Battalion of Sailors of the Guard.
Artillery of the Guard
2 heavy companies, 2 light and one mounted.
• THE COMBINED GRENADIERS DIVISION Inlantry
Combined grenadier regiments from the 1st, the 4th and the 27th divisions (each unit having two battalions), the grenadiers of the 23rd division (with one battalion only). Two companies of pioneers.
Cavalry
The 1st division of Deperadovitch's cuirassiers. The regiments (with 4 squadrons) of the Chevalier-Garde, the Horseguards, the Emperor's Cuirassiers, the Empress's Cuirassiers and the .Astrakhan Cuirassiers.
DOKHTOROVS 6th CORPS (8 500 men)
• KAPTSEVICH'S 7th DIVISION Inlantry
The Moscow, Pskov, Libau, Sofia infantry regiments and the 11th and 36th Jagers. Artillery the 7th Heavy and the 12th and 13th light companies.
• LIKHATCHEVS 24th DIVISION
Inlantry
The Oufa, Chirwan, Tomsk, Butirki infantry regiments and the 19th and 40th jagers.
Artillery
The 24th Heavy and the 45th and 46th light companies and the 7th Horse battery.
Cavalry
The 8 squadrons of Soum Hussars.
OUVAROVS 1st CAVALRY CORPS (2 500 cavalrymen)
Cavalry of the Guard
The Hussars, Dragoons and Uhlans of the Guard (regiments with 4 squadrons). Cavalry of the Line
The Kourland, Kasan, and Negin dragoons (regiments with 4 squadrons) Artillery One company of light artillery.
KORF"S 2nd CAVALRY RESERVE CORPS (3 500 men)
The Moscow, Pskov, Finland and Kargopol dragoons (regiments with 4 squadrons). The Polish Ulans (regiments with 8 squadrons. Artillery The 6th light Company and the 28th, 29th and 30th heavy Companies.
PAHLEIVS 3rd CAVALRY RESERVE CORPS (2 500 men)
{as Fain has noted. Boutourlin foigot to mention this corps in bis account of the numbers) The Siberian, Irkutsk and Orienburg Dragoons (regiments with 4 squadrons). The Mariupol Hussars (regiments with 8 squadrons) Artillery The 9th Light Company.
PLATOVS COSSACKS (7 000 Cossacks)
(7 000 Cossacks minimum, divided into 72 squadrons for 8 regiments)
The Ataman, Denisov, Illovaskoi, Karitinov, Vlassov, Bug, Gardeyev, and Simpheropol Cossacks, Tatars from Perecop, Kalmuks and Bashkirs. Artillery One light Company from the Don.
Bagration's 2nd army of the west
Chief of Staff was Count Saint Priest.
RAYEVSKI'S 7th CORPS (14 000 men)
• PASKIEVITCH'S 26th DIVISION. Infantry
The Ladoga, Poltava, Nigegorod, Orel Regiments, and the 5th and 42nd Jagers. Artillery The 26th Heavy and the 47th and 48th Light Companies.
• KOLUBAKINS 12th DIVISION
Infantry
The Narva, Smolensk, New Ingria, Alexopol regiments and the 6th and 41st Jagers.
Artillery
The 12th Heavy and the 22nd and 23rd Light Companies; the 8th Company of Light Artillery (attached to the Hussars).
Cavalry
The 8 squadrons of Akhtyrsk Hussars.
BOROSDIN'S 8th CORPS (20 000 men)
• VORONZOVS COMBINED GRENADIER DIVISION
Combined grenadier regiments from the 2nd, 7th, 12th, 20th 24th and 26th division, two battalions in a division.
• THE PRINCE OF MECKLEMBURGS COMBINED GRENADIER DIVISION Combined grenadier regiments from Kiev, Moscow, Astrakhan, Fanago-ria, Siberia, and Little Russia, two battalions in a regiment). Artillery The 11th Heavy and the 20th and 21st Light Companies.
• DOUKA'S 2nd CUIRASSIER DIVISION
The Cuirassiers from the Ekaterinoslav, the Military Order Regiments. Douka's Cuirassiers with the Gluchov, New Russia and Novgorod Regiments, all these regiments having 4 squadrons.
Artillery
The 31st and 32nd Heavy Companies.
The following particularly have to be mentioned.
• NEVEROWSKiS 27th DIVISION
As far as Boutourlin was concerned, this division had to be included in the total for Borosdin's Corps.
This was not an Army Corps, but a division which had been heavily committed in order to delay the advance of the French towards Smolensk. It had resisted well against the rather disorganised charges that Murat threw against it but which nevertheless caused severe losses. Because of these losses, the division included 4 regiments with two battalions each:
The Vilna, Simbirsk, Odessa and Tarnopol infantry and the 49th and 50th Jiiger regiments. It had lost its artillery.
SIEVER'S 4th CAVALRY CORPS (3 000 men)
The Kharkov, Tchemigov, Kiev and New Russia Dragoons, with 4 squadrons in a regiment. The 8 squadrons of Lithuanian Lancers (Uhlans).
Artillery-Engineers
The 10th Light Artillery Company and the 4th Company of pontoneers and a company of pioneers.
THE ILOVAISKI COSSACKS
These cannot be counted in Platov's 7 000 cavalrymen with their 30 squadrons. Counting 100 Cossacks per squadron, which is few, this repre-
sents 3 000 Cossacks forgotten by Boutourlin. These Cossacks were assimilated to a force of 30 squadrons.
Cossack regiments of Ilowai'ski (4), of Bug, Oussarev, Syssoiev, Karpov and Andreinov.
Artillery
A company of Don Light Artillery
MILORADOVITCH'S REINFORCEMENTS
These are to be named apart. He only brought back about a thousand Cavalrymen and the Moscow Militia.There were already 3 000 - 5 000 militiamen brought back from Smolensk, the Mocow contingent formed 11 regiments numbering 27 772 men. For the Russians, there were only 20 000 organised into regular troops, the remainder being used for work and for evacuatiing the wounded from the battlefield. They can be thus estimated at 20 000 utilisable fighters. A lot of militiamen served to make up regiments which had been hard hit.
A letter sent on 5th September from Mojaisk, to Rostopchin by Markov, the commander of the Moscow Militia says that eight of his regiments had joined the first army and six the second. He was left with 3 000 men to look after the safety of the villages, of which several had been pillaged and burnt by the camp followers in the baggage train and by Cossacks. He kept a reserve of 4 000 men on the left wing.
RUSSIAN NUMBERS AT BORODINO
BARCLAY DE TOLLY'S ARMY
In his book published in 1824 and dedicated to the Tsar, Boutourlin gave a total of 150 battalions, 134 squadrons of the Line, 72 irregular squadrons and 43 artillery companies (including 2 companies of Pioneers). A battalion corresponded to 650 combattants theoretically, a squadron to 170 cavalrymen, and an artillery company to 230 men; we are a long way from reality.
BAGRATION'S ARMY
There were 58 battalions, 52 squadrons and 17 artillery companies. Taking the theoretical figures, a figure of 50 000 men could be reached, but in their report of 27 August, the Russians gave the number of 34 125 soldiers with 73 cannon. Boutoulin gave however 54 200 men for this figure.
THE TOTAL
Boutourlin gave a total figure of 131 200 men present at Borodino for the whole Russian Army; but he forgot Pahlen's cavalry, a certain number of Cossacks and 5 000 militiamen, a total of about 10 000 men. So a grand total of 140 000 men.
THE PROBLEM OF THE MILITIAMEN
The Russian figures estimate more than 30 000 men in the field, but they were used to complete some regiments and were also used for work by the campaigning army. They were only 15 000 combattants regrouped and regimented, who were not actually used, being left in the second line as a reserve on the extreme left.
SOME GENERALITIES ABOUT THE 1812 RUSSIAN ARMY
Like all armies, it had gone through a lot of changes, especially in the spread of the regiments; the basic structure however was fixed.The Prussian influence could be felt at every level of the organization.