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4 Don Cossack regiments, 1 Ural Cossack regiment, 4 Bashkir regiments

1 regiment Siberian Cossack militia and 1 regiment Penza militia cavalry

Artillery: 16th Heavy, 56th Light and 30th and 10th Horse Artillery batteries

Right Flank Army Corps: General D. S. Dokhturov

12th Infantry Division: Major-General Prince N. N. Khovansky

Brigade: Smolensk Infantry Regiment; Narva Infantry Regiment

Brigade: Aleksopol Infantry Regiment; Novoingermanland Infantry Regiment

Brigade: 6th and 41st Jaeger regiments

26th Infantry Division: Major-General I. F. Paskevich

Brigade: Ladoga Infantry Regiment; Poltava Infantry Regiment

Brigade: Nizhnii Novgorod Infantry Regiment; Orel Infantry Regiment

Brigade: 5th and 42nd Jaeger regiments

13th Infantry Division: Brigade of Major-General Axel Lindfors

Velikie Luki Infantry Regiment: Galits Infantry Regiment

Cavalry detachment: Lieutenant-General E. I. Chaplitz

Combined Dragoon Regiment: 1st and 2nd Combined Mounted Jaeger regiments; 2nd Combined Lancer Regiment; Taganrog, Siberia and Zhitomir Lancer regiments

Artillery: 26th and 45th Heavy, 1st and 47th Light, 2nd Horse Artillery batteries

1 company miners

Army Corps reserve artillery: 22nd Heavy, 18th, 48th, 53rd Light, and 9th Horse Artillery batteries

Left Flank Army Corps: Lieutenant-General Count P. A. Tolstoy

Militia Corps of Major-General N. S. Muromtsev

4 regiments of Nizhnii Novgorod militia infantry; 1 regiment of Nizhnii Novgorod and 1 regiment of Kostroma militia cavalry; 1 Ural Cossack regiment

52nd Heavy and 22nd Horse Artillery batteries

Militia Corps of Major-General Titov

3 regiments of Penza militia infantry; 1 regiment of Riazan militia infantry and 1 regiment of Riazan militia jaegers; 1 regiment of Riazan militia cavalry; 2 squadrons of Kazan militia cavalry

64th Light Artillery Battery

Notes

Abbreviations

AGM

Arkhiv grafov Mordvinovykh

BL

British Library

Correspondance de l’Empereur Alexandre

Correspondance de l’Empereur Alexandre Ier avec sa sœur la Grande Duchesse Cathérine 1805–1818, ed. Grand Duke Nicholas, SPB, 1910

Entsiklopediia

V. Bezotosnyi et al. (eds.), Otechestvennaia voina 1812 goda: Entsiklopediia, Moscow, 2004

Eugen, Memoiren

Memoiren des Herzogs Eugen von Württemberg, 3 vols., Frankfurt an der Oder, 1862

IV

Istoricheskii vestnik

Kutuzov

L. G. Beskrovnyi (ed.), M. I. Kutuzov: Sbornik dokumentov, Moscow, 1954, vols. 4i, 4ii, 5

MVUA

Materialy voenno-uchenago arkhiva (1812, 1813)

PSZ

Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii

RA

Russkii arkhiv

RD

Relations diplomatiques

RGVIA

Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv

RS

Russkaia Starina

SIM

Sbornik istoricheskikh materialov izvlechennykh iz arkhiva S.E.I.V. kantseliarii

SIRIO

Sbornik imperatorskago russkago istoricheskago obshchestva

SPB

St Petersburg

SVM

Stoletie voennago ministerstva

TGIM

Trudy gosudarstvennogo istoricheskogo muzeia

VIS

Voenno-istoricheskii sbornik

VPR

Vneshniaia politika Rossii

VS

Voennyi sbornik

Chapter 1: Introduction

1 Much of this introduction is drawn from my article, ‘Russia and the Defeat of Napoleon’, Kritika, 7/2, 2006, pp. 283–308. That article includes comprehensive footnotes, and interested readers should consult it as regards references to most of the secondary literature. This introductory chapter also skims across many topics covered in more detail later in the book, at which point I will make the necessary citations to literature in the notes.

2 For the key works in English on and around this subject, see Additional Reading.

3 The one exception is Christopher Duffy: see his Austerlitz, London, 1999, and Borodino and the War of 1812, London, 1999: both of these are reprints by Cassell of books published some years previously. Both books are brief and were written when Russian archives were shut to foreigners. Duffy’s main works on Russia cover an earlier period.