1832.] 



Russia in 1832. 



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of the Russian army, and to trace its various formations from the un- 

 disciplined Strelitz to the grenadier of the guard ; our intention is to 

 consider it simply as a machine of aggression, to be weilded at the will 

 and pleasure of the imperial autocrat. In the year 1827, previous to 

 the Turkish war, we find, by the official returns of the minister of war, 

 that the army was composed as follows : 



IMPERIAL GUARD 



Eight Regiments of Infantry each of three battalions of 



800 each 19,200 



Two Battalions of Sappers and Miners, and Fort Artil- 

 lery 2,000 



Eight Regiments of Cavalry 800 strong 6,400 



Cossack and Tartar Guard 800 



Pioneers and Horse Artillery 800 



29,200 



LINE 



One hundred and twenty-seven Regiments of Infantry, of 



three battalions 800 strong 304,800 



Thirty-six Battalions of Interior Guard 77,000 



381,800 



CAVALRY, REGULAR 



Sixteen Regiments of Cuirassiers, of five squadrons 1010 

 strong 16,000 



Fifty-two Regiments of Dragoons, Hussars, Lancers, and 



Chasseurs 1000 strong 52,000 



68,000 



IRREGULAR CAVALRY 



Seventy-nine Regiments of Cossacks, of the Don, the 



Oural, the Volga, and the Black Sea 60,000 



Siberian Cossacks, Kalmucs, Tartars, Baskirs, and the 



Circassian Tribes 40,000 



100,000 



Artillery and Engineers 44,000 



Extra Corps 27,000 



650,000 



Add Officers 20,000 



And Military Colonies 60,000 



Grand Total.... 730,000 



which does not include the army of Poland. 



On the outbreak of the Turkish war, this force was farther augmented 

 by a levy of 200,000 conscripts, which gives a grand total of 930,000 

 men under arms an immense force, but in no degree exaggerated, 

 since by some writers it has been rated so high as 1,039,000. This 

 imposing force was divided into eight armies, each composed of three 

 or more corps ; the imperial guard under the command of the Grand 

 Duke Michael ; the army of the south, by Wittgenstein, afterwards 

 superseded by the celebrated Diebitch ; the army of the west, can- 

 tooned in the vicinity of Mohilef, by Field Marshal Count Sacken ; the 

 corps of Caucasus, by Marshal Paskie witch-Erevan ski ; the corps of 

 Finland, by the minister of the interior, General Zakufski ; the military 

 colonies, by Count Tolstoi ; the corps of Siberia and Orenburg, and, 

 lastly, the army of Lithuania and Poland, by the Grand Duke Constan- 

 tine. Such was the distribution of the armies of Russia when the tuf-- 



