The following sixty-four officers held the rank of Field Marshal during the Russian Empire. For post-1917 marshals, see Marshal of the Soviet Union. Note: This article is about the military usage of the word marshal. For other usages, see the end of this article. ... Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start... The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union (Russian: Marshal Sovietskogo Soyuza [Маршал Советского Союза]) was in practice the highest military rank of the Soviet Union. ...

The title of Russian Field Marshal was also bestowed on several foreign citizens: Events January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar. ... Count Feodor Alekseyevich Golovin (1650 - 1706) was the last Russian boyar and the first Russian chancellor. ... Events January 18 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia. ... Boris Petrovich Sheremetev (Борис Петрович Шереметев) (1652 – 1719) was a Russian count (1706), a military leader and a diplomat, and a general-field marshal (1701). ... // Events January 12 - Two-month freezing period begins in France - The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24. ... Menshikov in Exile Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov (Александр Данилович Меншиков) (1673 – 1729) was a Russian statesman, whose official titles included Generalissimo, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Izhora. ... Events February 8 - Catherine I became empress of Russia February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony. ... Events February 8 - Catherine I became empress of Russia February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony. ... Peter I permitted the Galitzines to take an emblem of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as their coat of arms The Galitzines, more correctly the Golitsyns (Russian: Голицын), are one of the largest and noblest princely houses of Russia. ... Events George Friderich Handel becomes a British subject. ... Russian Field-Marshal Yakov V. Bruce Jacob Daniel Bruce (Russian: , Yakov Vilimovich Bryus, 1669, Moscow – April 30, 1735, manor Glinki near Moscow) was a Russian statesman, military leader and scientist of Scottish descent, one of the associates of Peter the Great. ... Events Astronomical aberration discovered by the astronomer James Bradley Swedish academy of sciences founded at Uppsala The founding of the University of Havana (Universidad de la Habana), Cubas most well-established university. ... Ivan Yurievich Trubetskoy (Иван Юрьевич Трубецкой in Russian) (? - 1750) was a Russian Field Marshal. ... Events Astronomical aberration discovered by the astronomer James Bradley Swedish academy of sciences founded at Uppsala The founding of the University of Havana (Universidad de la Habana), Cubas most well-established university. ... Events February 23 - First performance of Handels Orlando, in London June 9 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. ... Count Burkhard Christoph von Munnich (1683 - 1767) was a Russian field marshal and political figure. ... Events January 26 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne. ... Count Peter von Lacy, or Pyotr Petrovich Lacy, as he was known in Russia (1678–1751), was one of the most successful Russian imperial commanders before Rumyantsev and Suvorov. ... 1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Stepan Fedorovich, Count Apraksin, (1702 - 1758), a relative of Fyodor M. Apraksin, had a military career in the Russian army. ... 1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Count Alexander Borisovich Buturlin (Russian, in full: граф Александр Борисович Бутурлин; 1694–1767) was a Russian general and courtier whose career was much furthered by his good looks and personal affection of Empress Elizabeth. ... 1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Count A. G. Razumovsky Count Alexei Grigorevich Razumovsky (Алексей Григорьевич Разумовский) (1709–1771), was a Ukrainian Cossack who rose to become lover and, probably, a secret spouse of the Russian Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. ... 1759 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Count Pyotr Semyonovich Saltykov (Пётр Семёнович Салтыков in Russian) (1697 - 1772) was a Russian statesman and a military figure, adjutant general (1762), son of Semyon Saltykov. ... 1761 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1761 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Count Pyotr Ivanovich Shuvalov (Петр Иванович Шувалов in Russian) (1711 - 1762) was a Russian statesman and Field Marshal. ... 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Count Aleksei Petrovich Bestuzhev-Ryumin (Алексе́й Петро́вич Бесту́жев-Рю́мин) (June 1, 1693 - April 21, 1768), Grand Chancellor of Russia, who was chiefly responsible for the Russian foreign policy during the reign of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. ... 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Prince Nikita Yurievich Trubetskoy (Никита Юрьевич Трубецкой in Russian) (May 26, 1699 - October 16, 1767) was a Russian statesman and Field Marshal (1756), minister of defense of Russia 1760. ... 1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Count Kirill Grigorievich Razumovsky, more correctly Rozumovsky, (1728-1803) was a Ukrainian Cossack who was appointed President of the Russian Academy of Sciences when he just turned 18 years old. ... 1769 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Peter I permitted the Galitzines to take an emblem of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as their coat of arms The Galitzines, more correctly the Golitsyns (Russian: Голицын), are one of the largest and noblest princely houses of Russia. ... 1770 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1773 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Count Zakhar Grigorevich Chernyshev or Chernyshov (1722 - 1784), rose to become Minister of War to the empress Catherine the Great of Russia. ... 1784 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin (Russian: Григорий Александрович Потемкин) (September 13, 1739 (NS: September 24) – October 5, 1791 (NS: October 16)) was a Russian general-field marshal, statesman, and favorite of Catherine II the Great. ... 1794 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Monument to Suvorov as youthful Mars, the Roman god of war (Italy (November 24, 1729 - May 18, 1800), was a Russian Generalissimo, reckoned one of a few great generals in history who never lost a battle. ... 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... Prince Nicholas Repnin Prince Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin (March 11, 1734 N.S. — May 12, 1801 N.S.) was a Russian statesman and general from the Repnin princely family who played a key role in the downfall of Polish statehood. ... 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... 1796 was a leap year starting on Friday. ... 1797 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Count Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky (Михаил Федотович Каменский in Russian) (1738-1809) was a Russian Field Marshal. ... 1807 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Count Ivan Vasilievich Gudovich (1741 - 1820) was a Russian noble and military leader of Ukrainian descent. ... 1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mikhail Kutuzov Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (Russian: ) (September 16, 1745 – April 28, 1813 (n. ... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Knyaz de Tolly Knyaz Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, called by the Russians as Mikhail Bogdanovich Barklay de Tolly (Михаи́л Богда́нович Баркла́й-де-То́лли) (born December 21, 1761 in Riga, [then] Imperial Russia; died May 26, 1818 in Insterburg, [then] Prussia), was a Russian field marshal and Minister of War. ... 1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826 1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Prince Peter Khristianovich Wittgenstein (1769-1843) was a Russian Field Marshal distinguished for his services in the Napoleonic wars. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Portrait by George Dawe from the Military Gallery Ivan Feodorovich Paskevich (Russian: ) (August 5 (8th NS), 1782 – January 20 (February 1, NS), 1856), was a Ukrainian-born military leader in the Russian service. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Hans Karl Friedrich Anton, count von Diebitsch and Narden, called by the Russians Ivan Ivanovich, Count Diebich-Zabalkansky (May 13, 1785 - June 10, 1831), Russian field marshal, was born in Silesia. ... 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Prince Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (1782–1856), was a Russian prince and field-marshal, renowned for his success in the Napoleonic wars, and most famous for leading the Russian invasion of the Caucasus from 1844 to 1853. ... 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Aleksandr Ivanovich Baryatinsky (Александр Иванович Барятинский in Russian) (1814-1879), Russian General and Field Marshal (since 1859), Prince, governor of the Caucasus. ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievich (July 27, 1831 - April 13, 1891) was the third son and sixth child of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia. ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia (October 13, 1832 - December 18, 1909) was the fourth son and seventh child of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Field Marshal Joseph Gourko Count Joseph Vladimirovich Romeyko-Gourko (the first name is also sometimes transliterated Ossip) (1828-1901) was a Russian Field Marshal prominent during the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78. ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Events January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar. ... Field Marshal Charles Eugène de Croy, (1651 - 1703), Duke, military officer from Holland of French origin. ... The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (c. ... Charles Darwin 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Josef Graf von Radetzky Johann Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz (en: Count John Joseph Wenceslaus Radetzky von Radetz, in Czech: Jan Josef Václav hrabě Radecký z Radče) (November 2, 1766 – January 5, 1858) was a Bohemian nobleman and soldier, immortalised by Johann Strauss Is Radetzky March. ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Graf Moltke Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (October 26, 1800 - April 24, 1891), who became Helmuth Graf von Moltke in 1870, was a famous Prussian general. ... 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... HI & RH Albrecht Friedrich Rudolf, Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Herzog von Teschen (3 August 1817-18 February 1895). ... 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Friedrich III (October 18, 1831 – June 15, 1888), German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruled 1888. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Carol I, original name Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (April 20, 1839 - October 10, 1914) was elected Domnitor (prince) of Romania in April 1866 following the overthrow of Alexander John Cuza, and proclaimed king on March 26, 1881. ...

See also

• History of Russian military ranks

Modern Russian military ranks trace their roots to Table of Ranks established by Peter the Great. ...

External links

• ((Russian)) Full list of Russian Imperial Field Marshals