List of Russian field marshals
The following sixty-four officers held the rank of field marshal during the Russian Empire. After 1917 the rank was abolished. In 1935 however, the Soviet Red Army introduced the equivalent rank of "Marshal of the Soviet Union" when military ranks were restored under Stalin's rule.. Russian cuirassiers can be seen observing the paintings.
Year | Name | Dates |
1700 | Count Fedor Golovin | 1650–1706 |
1701 | Count Boris Sheremetev | 1652–1719 |
1709 | Prince Alexander Menshikov | 1673–1729 |
1725 | Prince Anikita Repnin | 1668–1726 |
1725 | Prince Mikhail Galitzine | 1675–1730 |
1726 | Count Jacob Bruce | 1670–1735 |
1726 | Jan Kazimierz Sapieha | Before 1679–1730 |
1728 | Prince Ivan Trubetskoy | 1667–1750 |
1728 | Prince Vasily Vladimirovich Dolgorukov | 1667–1746 |
1732 | Count Burkhard Christoph von Munnich | 1683–1767 |
1736 | Count Peter von Lacy | 1678–1751 |
1742 | Ludwig Johann Wilhelm Gruno von Hessen-Homburg | 1705–1745 |
1756 | Stepan Apraksin | 1702–1758 |
1756 | Nikita Yurievich Trubetskoy | 1699–1767 |
1756 | Count Alexander Buturlin | 1694–1767 |
1756 | Count Alexei Razumovsky | 1709–1771 |
1759 | Count Pyotr Saltykov | 1698–1772 |
1761 | Count Alexander Ivanovich Shuvalov | 1710–1771 |
1761 | Count Pyotr Ivanovich Shuvalov | 1711–1762 |
1761 | Peter August Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck | 1697–1775 |
1762 | Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp | 1719–1763 |
1762 | Count Alexei Bestuzhev-Ryumin | 1693–1766 |
1762 | Prince Nikita Trubetskoy | 1699–1769 |
1764 | Count Kirill Razumovsky | 1728–1803 |
1769 | Prince Alexander Galitzine | 1718–1783 |
1770 | Count Pyotr Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky | 1725–1796 |
1773 | Count Zakhar Chernyshyov | 1722–1784 |
1784 | Prince Grigori Potemkin | 1739–1791 |
1794 | Prince Aleksander Suvorov | 1729–1800 |
1796 | Count Ivan Saltykov | 1730–1805 |
1796 | Prince Nicholas Repnin | 1734–1801 |
1796 | Prince Nikolay Saltykov | 1736–1816 |
1796 | Count Ivan Chernyshyov | 1726–1797 |
1797 | Count Johann Martin von Elmpt | 1725–1802 |
1797 | Count Valentin Platonovich Musin-Pushkin | 1735–1804 |
1797 | Count Mikhail Kamensky | 1738–1809 |
1797 | Victor François de Broglie, 2nd duc de Brogliey | 1718–1804 |
1807 | Prince Alexander Prozorovsky | 1732–1809 |
1807 | Count Ivan Gudovich | 1741–1820 |
1812 | Prince Mikhail Golenischev-Kutuzov | 1745–1813 |
1814 | Prince Mikhail Barclay de Tolly | 1761–1818 |
1825 | Prince Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken | 1752–1837 |
1826 | Ludwig Adolph Peter, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg-Ludwigsburg | 1769–1843 |
1829 | Prince Ivan Paskevich | 1782–1856 |
1829 | Count Hans Karl von Diebitsch-Zabalkansky | 1785–1831 |
1850 | Prince Pyotr Volkonsky | 1776–1852 |
1856 | Prince Mikhail Vorontsov | 1782–1856 |
1859 | Prince Alexander Baryatinsky | 1815–1879 |
1866 | Count Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg | 1793–1874 |
1878 | Grand Duke Nikolas Nikolaevich | 1831–1891 |
1878 | Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich | 1832–1909 |
1894 | Count Joseph Vladimirovich Gourko | 1828–1901 |
1898 | Count Dmitry Milyutin | 1816–1912 |
The title of Russian Field Marshal was also bestowed on several foreign citizens:
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Year | Name | Dates |
1700 | Charles Eugène, Duc de Croy | 1651–1702 |
1762 | Charles Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck | 1690–1774 |
1774 | Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt | 1719–1790 |
1815 | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | 1769–1852 |
1836 | Josef Graf zu Radetzky von Radetz | 1766–1858 |
1837 | Archduke Johann of Austria | 1782–1859 |
1872 | Helmuth Graf von Moltke | 1800–1891 |
1872 | Archduke Albrecht of Austria | 1817–1895 |
1872 | Crown Prince Albert of Saxony | 1828–1902 |
1872 | Prince Friedrich Karl Alexander of Prussia | 1801–1883 |
1872 | Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus of Prussia | 1828–1885 |
1872 | Prince Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht of Prussia | 1809–1872 |
1872 | Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia | 1831–1888 |
1888 | 1859–1941 | |
1910 | King Nicholas I of Montenegro | 1841–1921 |
1912 | King Carol I of Romania | 1839–1914 |