List of Russian commanders in the Patriotic War of 1812
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This is a list of commanders of the Russian Army in 1812 before the Patriotic War of 1812.


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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Afanasii Agalin 1764-1846 Major General (1807) Chief of the Kursk
Kursk
Kursk is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym Rivers. The area around Kursk was site of a turning point in the Russian-German struggle during World War II and the site of the largest tank battle in history...

 infantry regiment
Vasili Adadurov 1765-1845 Major General (1798), from 1808 in retirement Head of the 2nd brigade of the Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

 irregulars
Polotsk, Czasniki
Adam Georg von Agthe 1777-1826 Major General (1814) Chief of the Saint Petersburg grenadier
Grenadier (soldier)
A grenadier was originally a specialized soldier, first established as a distinct role in the mid-to-late 17th century, for the throwing of grenades and sometimes assault operations. At this time grenadiers were chosen from the strongest and largest soldiers...

 regiment
Borodino, Krasny
Battle of Krasnoi
The Battle of Krasnoi was a series of skirmishes fought in the final stage of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. This encounter was noteworthy because of the heavy losses inflicted on the remnants of the Grande Armée by the Russians under General Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov...

, Leipzig
Battle of Leipzig
The Battle of Leipzig or Battle of the Nations, on 16–19 October 1813, was fought by the coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against the French army of Napoleon. Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine...

Ivan Adamovich d. after 1813 Major General (1798) In the 1st Corps of the Reserve Army
Ivan Aklechev 1758-1824 Major General (1799) Head of Olonets
Olonets
Olonets is a town and the administrative center of Olonetsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, situated on the Olonka River, to the east from Lake Ladoga. Population: -History:...

 and Vologda
Vologda
Vologda is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the Vologda River. The city is a major transport knot of the Northwest of Russia. Vologda is among the Russian cities possessing an especially valuable historical heritage...

 rifle brigades of the Saint Petersburg irregulars
Polotsk, Lützen
Battle of Lützen (1813)
In the Battle of Lützen , Napoleon I of France lured a combined Prussian and Russian force into a trap, halting the advances of the Sixth Coalition after his devastating losses in Russia. The Russian commander, Prince Peter Wittgenstein, attempting to undo Napoleon's capture of Leipzig, attacked...

, Bautzen
Battle of Bautzen
In the Battle of Bautzen a combined Russian/Prussian army was pushed back by Napoleon, but escaped destruction, some sources claim, because Michel Ney failed to block their retreat...

, Dresden
Battle of Dresden
The Battle of Dresden was fought on 26–27 August 1813 around Dresden, Germany, resulting in a French victory under Napoleon I against forces of the Sixth Coalition of Austrians, Russians and Prussians under Field Marshal Schwartzenberg. However, Napoleon's victory was not as complete as it could...

, Bar-sur-Aube
Battle of Bar-sur-Aube
The Battle of Bar-sur-Aube was fought on February 27, 1814, between the First French Empire and the Austrian Empire. The French were led by Nicolas Oudinot, while the Austrians and their Bavarian allies, forming the Army of Bohemia, were led by Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg...

, Paris
Battle of Paris (1814)
The Battle of Paris was fought during the Napoleonic Wars in 1814. The French defeat led directly to the abdication of Napoleon I.-Background:...

Mikhail Akhlestyshev 1782-1829 Colonel (1810), Major General (1813) Chief of 39th chasseur regiment Kovel, Lyuboml, Golovnya, Golovnya, Bautzen, Katzbach
Battle of Katzbach
The Battle of Katzbach on 26 August 1813, was an accidental engagement of the Napoleonic Wars between the forces of the First French Empire under Marshal MacDonald and a Russo-Prussian army of the Sixth Coalition under Prussian Marshal Graf von Blücher...

Ilya Alekseyev 1772-1830 Major General (1807), Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General
Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....

 (1815)
Chief of dragoon brigade in the Corpse of Wittgenstein
Peter Wittgenstein
Ludwig Adolph Peter, Prince Wittgenstein was a Russian Field Marshal distinguished for his services in the Napoleonic wars.-Life:...

Polotsk, Czasniki, Stolbsy, Smoliani
Battle of Smoliani
At the Battle of Smoliani , the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein defeated the French forces of Marshal Claude Victor and Marshal Nicholas Oudinot. This battle was the last effort of the French to reestablish their northern flank in Russia, known as the "Dwina Line"...

, Lützen
Fyodor Aleksopol 1758-after 1816 Major General (1807) Chief of the 2nd brigade of the 23rd infantry division Smolensk
Battle of Smolensk (1812)
The Battle of Smolensk, the first major battle of the French invasion of Russia took place on August 16–18, 1812, between 175,000 men of the Grande Armée under Napoleon Bonaparte and 130,000 Russians under Barclay de Tolly, though only about 50,000 and 60,000 respectively were actually engaged...

, Borodino
Battle of Borodino
The Battle of Borodino , fought on September 7, 1812, was the largest and bloodiest single-day action of the French invasion of Russia and all Napoleonic Wars, involving more than 250,000 troops and resulting in at least 70,000 casualties...

Alexander Albrecht 1788-1828 Colonel (1811), Major General (1814), Lieutenant General (1826) In the Corpse of Wittgenstein Polotsk, Berezina
Battle of Berezina
The Battle of Berezina took place November 26–29, 1812 between the French army of Napoleon, retreating after his invasion of Russia and crossing the Berezina , and the Russian armies under Mikhail Kutuzov, Peter Wittgenstein and Admiral Pavel Chichagov. The battle ended with a mixed outcome...

, Lützen, Bautzen, Dresden
Stepan Andreyevskiy 1782-1742 Colonel (1809), Major General (1813) In the Leub Guard cavalry regiment Vitebsk, Smolensk, Borodino, Maloyaroslavets
Battle of Maloyaroslavets
The Battle of Maloyaroslavets took place on 24 October 1812, between the Russians, under Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, and part of the corps of Eugène de Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepson, under General Alexis Joseph Delzons which numbered about 20,000 strong.-Prelude:On 19 October, Napoleon...

, Bautzen, Dresden, Kulm
Battle of Kulm
The Battle of Kulm was a battle near the town Kulm and the village Přestanov in northern Bohemia. It was fought on 29–30 August 1813, during the War of the Sixth Coalition...

Alexander Ansio 1776-1830 Major General (1810) General on duty of the Danube Army
Danube Army
The Danube Army was created a short time before the French invasion of Russia, and was intended to prevent any Austrian incursions into western Ukraine.Commander-in-Chief Admiral P.V.ChichagovChief of Staff - General Lieutenant I.V.Sabaneev...

Berezina
Alexey Arakcheyev 1769-1834 General of artillery (1809) Head of the War Department Lützen, Bautzen
Andrei Arakcheyev 1772-1814 Major General (1799) Chief of artillery of the 3rd Reserve Army
Ivan Andreyevich Argamakov 1775-1820 Colonel (1807), Major General (1813) Chief of Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr is a city in the North of the western half of Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zhytomyr Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Zhytomyr Raion...

 dragoon regiment
Kaidanov, Minsk, Borisov, Bautzen, Leipzig, Hamburg
Ivan Vasilievich Argamakov 1763-1834 Colonel (1806), Major General (1815) Chief of Vladimir
Vladimir
Vladimir is a city and the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River, to the east of Moscow along the M7 motorway. Population:...

 dragoon regiment
Dresden, Leipzig, Hamburg
Gustav Armfelt 1757-1814 General of infantry (1812) In the Imperial Retinue
Retinue
A retinue is a body of persons "retained" in the service of a noble or royal personage, a suite of "retainers".-Etymology:...

Großbeeren, Dennewitz
Battle of Dennewitz
The Battle of Dennewitz took place on 6 September 1813 between the forces of the First French Empire and an army of Prussians and Russians of the Sixth Coalition. It occurred in Dennewitz, a village of Germany, in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, near Jüterbog, 40 km. S.W...

, Leipzig
Alexander Arseniev 1754-1844 Major General (1801) In the Moscow irregulars
Mikhail Arseniev 1779-1838 Major General (1812) In the Leub Guard Cavalry regiment Fère-Champenoise
Nikolai Arseniev 1764-1830 Major General (1799) Chief of a division in the Moscow irregulars Borodino, Tarutino
Battle of Tarutino
The Battle of Tarutino was a part of Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The battle is sometimes called the Battle of Vinkovo or the Battle of Chernishnya after the local river. Many historians claim that the latter name is more fitting because the village of Tarutino was 8 km from the described events...

, Maloyaroslavets, Krasnoe
Aleksei Avdulin 1776-1838 Major General (1810) In Reserve

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Karl Gustav von Baggovut
Karl Gustav von Baggovut
Karl Gustav von Baggehufwudt September 1761 Perila, Estonia 18 October 1812 battle of Winkowo, Russian Empire was a Lieutenant General in Russian Empire taking part both in Napoleonic Wars and Finnish War...

1761-1812 Lieutenant General (1807) Chief of 2nd infantry corps of the 1st Army of the West Eulay, Pultusk, Heilsberg, Fridland, Finnish War, Borodino, Tarutino
Prince Pyotr Bagration
Pyotr Bagration
Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration was a general of the Russian army. He was a descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations.- Life :...

1765-1812 General of infantry (1809) Commander-in-chief
Commander-in-Chief
A commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the military...

 of the 1st Army
Saltanovka
Battle of Saltanovka
The Battle of Saltankovka was a battle of the 1812 French invasion of Russia.The Russian 2nd Army, led by Pyotr Bagration aimed to join main Russian army under Barclay de Tolly after the French forces took Mogilev and blocked Dnieper river crossing. Bagration sent general N.N...

, Borodino
Prince Roman Bagration 1778 – 1834 Colonel (1810), Major General (1813) In the Staff of the 3rd Army Kobrin, Brest, Gorodechno
Pyotr Balabin 1776 - 1856 Major General (1813), Lieutenant General (1832) In the Corps of Riga
Riga
Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

Memel, Bautzen, Dresden, Kulm, Glogau
Stepan Balabin 1763 – 1818 Major General (1815) Chief of the Don Cossacks
Don Cossacks
Don Cossacks were Cossacks who settled along the middle and lower Don.- Etymology and origins :The Don Cossack Host was a frontier military organization from the end of the 16th until the early 20th century....

 Ataman Regiment
Prince Kirill Balatukov 1774 – 1827 Major General (1813) Chief of the Simferopol
Simferopol
-Russian Empire and Civil War:The city was renamed Simferopol in 1784 after the annexation of the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire by Catherine II of Russia. The name Simferopol is derived from the Greek, Συμφερόπολις , translated as "the city of usefulness." In 1802, Simferopol became the...

 Chivalry Tatar Regiment
Romanov, Mir
Battle of Mir
Battle of Mir was one of the first battles of the Polish-Russian War of 1792. It took place in the town of Mir, which is now part of Belarus on June 11, 1792.The Russian army of Boris Mellin defeated the Lithuanian force under Józef Judycki...

, Borodino, Tarutino
Alexander Balashov
Alexander Balashov
Alexander Dmitriyevich Balashov was a Russian general and statesman.Balashov came from a noble family. When the boy turned 6 years, his father, a Privy Counsellor and Senator, had him enrolled in the Preobrazhensky Regiment though it was not until November 1781 that he entered the Page Corps,...

1770-1837 General aid-de-camp (1809), General of infantry (1823) Minister of Policy
Ministry of Police of Imperial Russia
Ministry of Police of Imperial Russia was created in the course of Government reform of Alexander I in 1810 and existed till 1819.-Ministry objectives and credentials:* Carrying out recruitment in the Army;* Protection of the state stocks of the foodstuffs;...

, in the Emperor's retinue
Retinue
A retinue is a body of persons "retained" in the service of a noble or royal personage, a suite of "retainers".-Etymology:...

Mikhail Balk 1764 – 1818 Lieutenant General (1815) Chief of the Riga Dragoon Regiment Gromy, St-Dizier
Battle of St-Dizier
The first Battle of St-Dizier was fought on January 26, 1814, and resulted the victory of French under Napoleon Bonaparte against Russians under General Lanskoy...

Adam Balla 1764 - 1812 Major General (1799) Commander of 3rd Brigade of 7th Infantry Division Smolensk
Pyotr Bardakov 1756 - 1821 Lieutenant General (1798) Chief of Kostroma
Kostroma
Kostroma is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russian towns, it is located at the confluence of the Volga and Kostroma Rivers...

 militia
Glogau
Prince Michael Barclay de Tolly
Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly
Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly , was a Russian Field Marshal and Minister of War during Napoleon's invasion in 1812 and War of the Sixth Coalition.-Early life:...

1761-1818 General of infantry (1809), Field Marshal
Field Marshal
Field Marshal is a military rank. Traditionally, it is the highest military rank in an army.-Etymology:The origin of the rank of field marshal dates to the early Middle Ages, originally meaning the keeper of the king's horses , from the time of the early Frankish kings.-Usage and hierarchical...

 (1814)
Minister of Land Forces of Russia, Commander of 1st and 3rd Armies of the West Borodino, Kulm, Leipzig, Paris
Ludwig Balthasar Alexis Bartholomäi 1784-1839 Colonel (1812), Lieutenant General (1826) Aid-de-camp of Michael Barclay de Tolly Vitebsk, Smolenks, Borodino, Tarutino, Leipzig, Krasnoe, Laon
Battle of Laon
The Battle of Laon was the victory of Blücher's Prussian army over Napoleon's French army near Laon.-Prelude:An Allied coalition attempted to complete the destruction of Napoleon's French Empire in 1814. France had been defeated in Russia in 1812 and in Central Europe in 1813...

, Soissons
Alexey Bakhmetiev
Nikilay Bakhmetiev
Alexander Bashilov
Alexander Bashilov
Alexander Alexandrovich Bashilov was a Russian general officer of Napoleonic Wars period, later engaged in urban planning of Moscow and its suburbs.-Military career:...

1777-1849 (1847?) Major General (1810) Brigade commander, Third Army Gorodechna
Panteleymon Benardos
Count Alexander von Benckendorff
Alexander von Benckendorff
Count Alexander von Benckendorff, was a Russian Infantry General and statesman, Adjutant General of the H. I. M. Retinue and a commander in the Patriotic War of 1812 best remembered for having established the Gendarmes in Russia....

1783-1844
Konstantin von Benckendorff
Konstantin von Benckendorff
Konstantin von Benckendorff was a Russian general and diplomat. His brother Alexander von Benckendorff was also a general and statesman, and his sister Dorothea von Lieven was a political force famous at London St. Petersburg, and Paris....

1785-1828
Count Levin August von Bennigsen
Levin August, Count von Bennigsen
Levin August Gottlieb Theophil , Count von Bennigsen was a German general in the service of the Russian Empire....

1745-1826
Bernhard Magnus von Berg 1764-1838
Gregor von Berg 1765-1838
Alexander Berdyaev
Alexander Bibikov
Adam Otto von Bistram
Karl Heinrich Georg von Bistram
Andrey Bogdanovskiy
Nikolay Borozdin 1777 - 1830 Major General (1807) chief of 1st Cuirassier Division, 5th Infantry Corps Finnish War, Borodino, Bauzten, Leipzig
Baron Karl Ludwig von Budberg 1775–1829
Otto von Buchholtz 1770 – 1831

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Anton Chalikov
Yefim Chaplits
Yefim Chaplits
Eufemiusz Czaplic was a general of the Russian Empire.Eufemiusz Czaplic was born into an old Polish noble family Czaplic and began military service in the Polish army, but entered the Russian service with a rank of second major of on October 26, 1783...

1768-1825
Ilya Chernozubov
Alexander Chernyshyov
Alexander Chernyshyov
Alexander Ivanovich Chernyshyov , General of Cavalry , was a Russian military leader, diplomat and statesman, whose career began in Napoleonic Wars. After Battle of Austerlitz, he performed successful diplomatic mission to France and Sweden and served with distinction in battles of 1812 and 1813...

(1786-1857) Colonel (1809), Major General (November 1812) Guerilla brigade commander Raids in Neman River
Neman River
Neman or Niemen or Nemunas, is a major Eastern European river rising in Belarus and flowing through Lithuania before draining into the Curonian Lagoon and then into the Baltic Sea at Klaipėda. It is the northern border between Lithuania and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast in its lower reaches...

 area, October-November 1812
Nikolay Chicherin
Pyotr Chicherin
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Chicherin
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Chicherin was a prominent Russian general that fought against Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. As a result, his portrait was hung in the of the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace.- Life :...

Pavel Choglokov 1772 1832 Major General (1808) Chief of 1st Brigade, 11th Division, 4th Infantry Corps Finnsih War, Smolensk, Borodino, Bautzen, Leipzig
Baron Karl Clodt von Jürgensburg

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Denis Davydov
Denis Davydov
Denis Vasilyevich Davydov was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented a specific genre – hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado – and spectacularly designed his own life to illustrate such poetry.-Biography:...

1784-1839
Maksim Damas
David Delyanov
Vasiliy Denisov
Luka Denisiev
Nikolay Depreradovich
Nikolay Dekhterev
Count Hans Karl von Diebitsch
Hans Karl von Diebitsch
Count Hans Karl Friedrich Anton von Diebitsch und Narden was a German-born soldier serving as Russian Field Marshal....

 (Ivan Dibich)
1785-1831
Fyodor Dovre
Dmitry Dokhturov
Dmitry Dokhturov
Dmitry Sergeyevich Dokhturov was a Russian Infantry General and a prominent military leader during the Patriotic War of 1812....

1756-1816
Fyodor Drizen
Fyodor Drizen
Baron Fyodor Vasilyevich Drizen was a Russian commanding officer. Drizen was born to a family of Russian nobles, of German descent, initially named Osten-Drizen. The Osten-Drizen family was known, in noble circles, as fon-der-Osten-Drizen, having originally been von der Osten-Driesen...

Borodino
Baron Ilya Ducca
Ivan Durnovo
Stepan Dyatkov

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Georgi Emmanuel
Fyodor Engelhardt
Fyodor Engelhardt
Fyodor Engelhardt was a Russian Brigadier General and a hero of the storming of Izmail during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1792.-Early career:...

1762-1831 Commander of Riga volunteers Defense of Riga
Riga
Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

Grigori Engelhardt
Grigori Engelhardt
-Early career:Engelhardt was born into the Courland nobility. On May 6, 1776, he was enrolled in the Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment as a noncommissioned officer. On December 3, 1779, he transferred to the Nevsky Musketeer Regiment as a lieutenant....

1759-1834 Major General
Fyodor Ertell
Magnus Gustav (Ivan) von Essen 1759-1813
Count Pyotr Essen

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
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Pavel Filisov
Alexander von Fock

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Prince Joseph Galatte 1760—
Alexey Gamen 1773—1829
Ermolay Gamper 1750—1814
Semyon Gangeblov
Semyon Gangeblov
Semyon Georgievich Gangeblov was a Russian military commander of the Napoleonic Wars. He came of the Georgian noble family Gangeblidze , which emigrated to Russia in 1724....

1757—1827
Vasiliy Garpe 1762—1814
Ivan Geidenreich 1769—1839
Gotthard August von Helffreich 1776—1843
Jakov Gine 1769—1813
Andrey Glebov 1770—1854
Fyodor Gogel 1775—1827
Pavel Golenishchev-Kutuzov 1772—1843
Prince Dmitriy Golitsyn
Dmitriy Vladimirovich Golitsyn
Serene Prince Dmitriy Vladimirovich Golitsyn was a Russian cavalry general prominent during the Napoleonic Wars, statesman and military writer....

1771-1844
Evgeniy Golovin 1782—1858
Prince Andrey Gorchakov 1779—1855
Timofey Grekov 1770—1831
Alexander Gresser 1772—1822
Andrey Gudovich 1782—1867
Ivan Gurielov
Ivan Gurielov
Prince Ivan Stepanovich Gurielov also known as Guryalov or Gurieli was a Russian general of Georgian origin who fought in several campaigns, most notably in the 1812-14 wars against Napoleon I of France....

1770—1818

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Baron Karl Herzdorf
Prince Ernest of Hesse-Philippsthal

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Pyotr Ivelich 1772 - 1816 Major General (1808 Chief of 1 Brigade, 17th Division, 2nd Infantry Corps
Dmitry Ignatiev
Alexey Ilovayskiy
Vasiliy Ilovayskiy
Grigori Ilovayskiy
Ivan Ilovayskiy
Nikolay Ilovayskiy
Osip Ilovayskiy
Ivan Inzov
Ivan Inzov
Ivan Nikitich Inzov was a Russian commander in the Patriotic War of 1812 and Governor of Bessarabia from 1818. Chişinău owes to him some of its finest buildings, including the Nativity Cathedral....


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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini
Antoine-Henri Jomini
Antoine-Henri, baron Jomini was a general in the French and later in the Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war...

1779-1869

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
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The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Vladimir Kablukov
Platon Kablukov
Kirill Kazachkovskiy
Paisiy Kaysarov
Pyotr Kaptsevich
Moisey Karpenko
Akim Karpov
Ermolay Kern
Stepan Khilkoff
Prince Nikolay Khovansky
Matvey Khrapovitskiy
Ivan Khroshchov
Pyotr Kikin
Fyodor Knipper
Karl von Knorring 1774-1817
Otto von Knorring
Alexander Knyazhin
Boris Knyazhin
Pyotr Kozen
Ivan Kozlyaninov
Alexey Kologrivov
Pyotr Kolyubakin
Count Pyotr Konovnitsin
Pyotr Kornilov
Fyodor Korf
Vasiliy Kostenetskiy
Afanasiy Krasovskiy
Baron Cyprian Kreutz
Nikolay Kretov
Maksim Kryzhanovskiy
Nikoay Kudashev
Yakov Kulnev
Yakov Kulnev
Yakov Petrovich Kulnev was, along with Pyotr Bagration and Aleksey Yermolov, one of the most popular Russian military leaders at the time of the Napoleonic Wars...

1763-1812
Dmitry Kuruta
Alexander Kutaysov
Dmitriy Kuteynikov
Aleksander Kutuzov
Prince Mikhail Kutuzov
Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov was a Field Marshal of the Russian Empire. He served as one of the finest military officers and diplomats of Russia under the reign of three Romanov Tsars: Catherine II, Paul I and Alexander I...

1745-1813

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The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Count Charles de Lambert
Count Alexander Langeron
Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron
Count Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langéron , born in Paris, was a French general in the service of the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars.-Early life:...

1763-1831
Sergey Lanskoy
Vasiliy Laptev
Vasiliy Levashov
Baron Karl Levenstern
Baron Woldemar Hermann von Löwenstern 1776–1858
Friedrich von Löwis of Menar ("Fyodor Leviz") 1767-1824
Dmitry Levin
Ivan Leontiev
Count Johann Lieven
Fredrik Lindfors ("Fedor")
Grigori Lisanevich
Pyotr Likhachyov
Fyodor Lukov
Gavriil Lukovkin
Dmitry Lyalin
Dmitry Lyapunov

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Valerian Madatov
Valerian Madatov
Prince Valerian Grigoryevich Madatov was an Armenian prince and a lieutenant-general of the Russian Empire.-Early life:...

1782-1829
Count Johann von Manteuffel ("Ivan Manteyfel")
Alexander Markov
Yevgeni Markov
Andrey Maskov
Mikhail Mantsev
Vladimir Mezentsev
Mikhail Mezentsev
Alexey Melissino
Baron Egor Meller-Zakomelskiy
Pavel Merlin
Count Alexandre Michaud de Beauretour 1771-1845
Count Mikhail Miloradovich 1771-1825
Dmitry Mordvinov
Fyodor Mosolov
Nikolay Myakinin

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Ivan Nabokov
Ivan Nabokov
Ivan Aleksandrovich Nabokov was a Russian Adjutant general and general of infantry prominent during the Napoleonic wars.Nabokov came from an old noble family based in the Novgorod governorate, where his father...

1787-1852
Fyodor Nazimov
Lev Naryshkin
Mikhail Naumov
Dmitry Neverskiy
Pavel Neidhart
Alexey Nikitin

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Prince Vasily Obolenskiy
Adam Ozarowski
Adam Ozarowski
Count Adam Petrovich Ozharovsky was a Russian general of Polish descent who distinguished himself during the Napoleonic Wars....

1776-1855
Modest Okulov
Evgeny Olenin
Count Joseph D'Olon
Zakhar Olsufiev
Nikolay Olsufiev
Karl Oldekop
Karl Opperman
Vasiliy Orlov-Denisov
Prince Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken 1752-1837
Count Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy
Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy
Alexander Ivanovich Count Osterman-Tolstoy was a Russian nobleman and soldier in the era of the French Revolutionary Wars...

1772-1857

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Baron Magnus von der Pahlen ("Matvei")
Count Paul von der Pahlen
Count Peter von der Pahlen
Ivan Palitsin
Ivan Panchulidzev
Semyon Panchulidzev
Count Ivan Paskevich
Ivan Paskevich
Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich was a Ukrainian-born military leader. For his victories, he was made Count of Erivan in 1828 and Namestnik of the Kingdom of Poland in 1831...

17782-1856
Alexander Patton
Marquis Filippo Paulucci
Alexander Peiker
Georg Ludwig Pilar von Pilchau 1767-1830
Alexander Pisarev
Count Matvei Platov
Matvei Platov
Count Matvei Ivanovich Platov was a Russian general who commanded the Don Cossacks in the Napoleonic wars....

1757-1818
Konstantin Poltoratskiy
Boris Poluektov
Ivan Pol
Mikhail Ponsette
Fyodor Posnikov
Yakov Potyomkin
Count Stanisław Potocki (1782-1831) 
Count Carlo-Andrea Pozzo di Borgo
Alexey Protasov
Dmitry Pyshnitskiy

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Nikolay Raevsky
Nikolay Raevsky
Nikolay Nikolayevich Raevsky was a Russian general and statesman who achieved fame for his feats of arms during the Napoleonic wars. His family left a lasting legacy in Russian society and culture.-Early life:Nikolay Raevsky was born in Saint Petersburg...

1771-1829
Vasily Rakhmanov 1764-1816
Dmitry Rezvy 1762-1823
Robert Renny 1768-1832
Prince Nikolay Repnin-Volkonsky 1778-1845
Sergey Repninskiy 1775-1818
Stepan Repninskiy 1773-1851
Johann Friedrich von Rehren 
(Ivan Reren)
1775-1813
Fyodor Rediger 1773-1851
Alexander von Rüdinger 1782-1825
Burchard Adam von Richter
(Boris Richter)
1782-1832
Count Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke
Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke
Count Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke was a Russian nobleman and military leader who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. He is also particularly well remembered in Serbia where he led a combined Russian and Serb army to defeat the Turks at Varvarin in 1810...

1772-1849
Baron Alexander von Rosen 1779-1832
Baron Gregor von Rosen
(Grigori Rozen)
1781-1841
Baron Friedrich Georg Otto von Rosen
(Fyodor Rozen)
1767-1851
Ignaty Rossi 1765-1814
Ludwig Roth
Ludwig Roth
Ludwig Roth was the Aerospace engineer who was the head of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office which designed the Wasserfall and created advanced rockets designs such as the A9/A10 ICBM....

 ("Loggin Rot")
1780-1851
Alexander Ruzdrevich 1785-1829
Vasily Rykov 1759-1827
Alexander Ryleev 1778-1840
Mikhail Ryleev 1771-1830
Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia
Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia
Constantine Pavlovich was a grand duke of Russia and the second son of Emperor Paul I. He was the Tsesarevich of Russia throughout the reign of his elder brother Alexander I, but had secretly renounced his claim to the throne in 1823...

1779-1831

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Ivan Sabaneev
Fyodor Sanders
Andrey Andreyevich von Saß
Andreas Burchard Friedrich (Andrey Pavlovich) von Saß
Eremey Savoini
Ivan Sazonov
Fyodor Sazonov
Duke Leopold of Saxe-Coburg
Leopold I of Belgium
Leopold I was from 21 July 1831 the first King of the Belgians, following Belgium's independence from the Netherlands. He was the founder of the Belgian line of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha...

1790-1865
Prince Peter of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
Peter Wittgenstein
Ludwig Adolph Peter, Prince Wittgenstein was a Russian Field Marshal distinguished for his services in the Napoleonic wars.-Life:...

1769-1843
Gustav Scheele
Nikolay Selyavin
Aleksei Seslavin
Count Emmanuel de Saint-Priest
Prince Ivan Shakhovskoy
Prince Alexander Shcherbatov
Prince Alexey Shcherbatov
Prince Nikolay Shcherbatov
Ivan Shevich
Vasily Shenshin
Dmitry Shepelev
Mikhail Shkapskiy
Gerasim Shostakov
Peter Schreyder
Evstafiy Shtaden
Fabian Steinheil
Fabian Steinheil
Count Fabian Gotthard von Steinheil was a Russian military officer, and the Governor-General of Finland between 1810 and 1824.Steinheil was born in Hapsal, Estonia...

 ("Faddei Shteingel")
Count Pavel Shuvalov
Alexander Shulgin
Daniil Shukhanov
Count Egor Sivers
Count Karl Sivers
Nikolay Sipyagin
Anton Skalon  1767-1812
Iosif Sokolovskiy
Maksim Stavitskiy
Semyon Stavrakov
Georg Johann von Staal 1777-1862
Karl Gustav von Staal 1778-1853
Count Pavel Stroganov 1774-1817
Nikolay Sulima
Ivan Sukhozanet
Baron Paul van Suchtelen (son of Pieter van Suchtelen)
Baron Pieter van Suchtelen
Nikanor Svechin

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Alexander Talysin
Fyodor Talysin
Baron Fyodor Teil van Seraskern
Alexander Thesleff
Nikolay Titov
Count Pyotr Tolstoy
Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy
Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy was a Russian general and statesman.Pyotr Tolstoy came from the Oryol branch of the Tolstoy family, his father Alexander Tolstoy was a grandson of Count Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy...

1769-1844
Baron Karl Wilhelm von Toll
Count Alexander Tormasov
Alexander Tormasov
Count Alexander Petrovich Tormasov was a Russian cavalry general prominent during the Napoleonic Wars....

1752-1819
Mikhail Treskin
Ivan Troshchinskiy
Prince Vasily Trubetskoy 1776-1841
Christian Truzson
Alexander Tsvilinev
Andrey Turchaninov
Pavel Turchaninov
Alexander Tuchkov
Nikolay Tuchkov
Nikolay Tuchkov
Nikolay Alexeivich Tuchkov was a Russian general of the Russo-Swedish War , the suppression of the Kościuszko Uprising and the opposition to the French invasion of Russia. He rose to the rank of lieutenant general and commander of an infantry corps....

Pavel Tuchkov

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Fyodor Uvarov
Gustav Udam ("Evstafiy Udom") 1760–1836
Johann Udam ("Ivan Udom") 1768–1821
Andrey Umanets
Prince Alexander Urusov
Pavel Ushakov
Sergei Ushakov

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Ivan Vadbolskiy
Yakov Vadkovsky 1774 - 1820 Major General (1808) Chief of 2 Brigade, 17th Division, 2nd Infantry Corps
Ludwig Valmoden
Dmitry Vasilchikov
Illarion Vasilchikov
Nikolay Vasilchikov
Anton Velikopolskiy
Ivan Velyaminov
Gavriil Veselitskiy
Mikhail Vistitskiy
Egor Vlastov
Mikhail Vlodek
Alexey Voyeykov
Alexander Voinov
Mikhail Volkov
Prince Pyotr Volkonskiy
Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky
Knyaz/ Prince Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky ) , Russian military commander, General-Field Marshal , Adjutant General to Alexander I, member of the State Council , His Serene Highness Knyaz/Prince .Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky was born in Saint Petersburg in 1776...

1776-1852
Prince Sergey Volkonskiy
Prince Mikhail Vorontsov
Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov
Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov , was a Russian prince and field-marshal, renowned for his success in the Napoleonic wars, and most famous for his participation in the Caucasian War from 1844 to 1853....

1782-1856
Nikolay Vuich

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Baron Ferdinand Wintzingerode
Count Ivan Witte
Duke Alexander of Wurttemberg
Duke Eugene of Wurttemberg
Eugen Duke of Württemberg (1788–1857)
Duke Eugen of Württemberg was a German nobleman and a General of Infantry in the Imperial Russian Army during the Napoleonic Wars.-Early life and family:...


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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Lev Yashvil
Lev Mikhailovich Yashvil
Prince Lev Mikhailovich Yashvil was a Russian general of Georgian origin . He was a brother of General Vladimir Yashvil....

Nikolay Yemelyanov
Alexey Yermolov
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov
Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov , or Ermolov , was a Russian Imperial general of the 19th century who commanded Russian troops in the Caucasus War.-Early life:...

1777-1861
Ivan Yershov
Ivan Yershov
Ivan Vasiliyevitch Yershov or Ershov , born November 8, 1867 - died November 21, 1943, was a Russian opera singer. He earned renown for his brilliant performances at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, performing some of the most demanding roles written for the dramatic tenor...

Andrey Yefimovich
Vasiliy Yeshin
Dmitry Yuzefovich
Alexander Yushkov

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Portrait Name Dates of birth and death Rank Position in 1812 Major battles Military Gallery
Military Gallery
The Military Gallery is a gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The gallery is a setting for 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812...

Pyotr Zagryazhskiy
Arseniy Zakrevskiy
Arseniy Zakrevskiy
Count Arseny Andreyevich Zakrevsky was a Russian statesman and Minister of the Interior from April 19 of 1828 to November 19 of 1831....

1783–1865
Timofey Zbievskiy
Fyodor Zvarykin
Filipp Zhevakhov
Filipp Zhevakhov
Filipp Semyonovich Zhevakhov was a Russian general of Georgian noble descent and a participant of the Napoleonic Wars.Zhevakhov was born in the émigré Georgian family of Princes Javakhishvili who had an estate in Ukraine. He joined the Russian army as a hussar officer in 1766 and took part in the...

Ivan Zhevakhov
Ivan Zhevakhov
Ivan Semyonovich Zhevakhov or Ivane Javakhishvili was a Russian general of Georgian noble descent and a participant of the Napoleonic Wars....

Spiridon Zhevakhov
Spiridon Zhevakhov
Spiridon Eristovich Zhevakhov or Spiridon Javakhishvili was a Russian general of Georgian noble descent and a participant of the Napoleonic Wars....

Pyotr Zheltukhin
Sergey Zheltukhin
Apollon Zhemchuzhnikov

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