The Russian Officer Corps In The Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars

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The Russian Officer Corps of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 161121002X
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Russian Officer Corps of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars written by Alexander Mikaberidze and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2005-01-19 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Officer Corps of The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1795–1815 features more than 800 detailed biographies of the commanders of that era. Foreword by Professor Donald H. Horward, Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, Florida State University Based upon years of research in Russian archives, historian Alexander Mikaberidze’s biographies include the subject’s place of birth, family history, educational background, a detailed description of his military service, his awards and promotions, wounds, transfers, commands, and other related information, including the date and place of his death and internment, if known. In addition, an introductory chapter presents in meticulous detail the organization of the Russian military, how it was trained, the educational and cultural background of the officer corps, its awards and their history and meaning, and much more. This outstanding overview is supported and enhanced by three dozen charts, tables, and graphics that illustrate the rich history of the Russian officer corps. This study also includes an annotated bibliography to help guide students of the period through the available Russian sources. Stunning in its scope and depth of coverage, The Russian Officer Corps is essential reading for historians, scholars, genealogists, hobbyists, war gamers, and anyone working or studying late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century European history. Every student of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as every academic library, will find this impressive reference work of this momentous period of history absolutely indispensable.

The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars written by Alexander Mikaberidze and published by Spellmount, Limited Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented here for the first time in this important and ground breaking work are more than 600 detailed biographies of the senior Russian officers who commanded troops in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 13

Author : Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
ISBN 13 : 889327289X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 13 written by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various ancient editions of the work, Mark Conrad’s translation is the first and the better to remain true to the original structure and essential style of the text. Conrad’s comprehensive translation is an indispensable resource for today's historian, strategists, and scholars. The Viskovatov’s enormous work is based on a great quantity of archival documents and contains four thousand colored and b/w illustrations. It is composed by 30 or 34 volumes (1st edition 1-30, St. Petersburg, 1841-62, and 2nd edition Vols. 1-34, St. Petersburg - Novosibirsk - Leningrad, 1899-1948). The topics discussed start from the early czars until the late nineteenth century. Soldiershop edition add at this important work several new enriched and colorful plates, which together with the unedited publication in English make this collection extremely interesting !

Russia's Army

Author : Roger R. Reese
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806193573
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Russia's Army written by Roger R. Reese and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s Russia seems to have stepped out of time, reverting to an imperial era of conquest and expansion. But as Roger Reese points out in this comprehensive new history, Russia’s way of war has changed little from one century to the next, one regime to another, from the army of the tsar to the army of today. Russia’s Army reveals how the Imperial Russian Army and its successors, the Soviet Army and the army of the Russian Federation, confronted the state’s foreign policy challenges—projecting power and defending the empire—and the domestic challenge of containing internal unrest generated by nationalism, competing ethnic and religious identities, and political discontent. These twin challenges, in turn, drove defense policy and the planning and conduct of war. From the beginning of the nineteenth century, the development of the army was driven by shifts in the European balance of power and changes in global diplomacy, politics, economics, and society. Reese identifies themes that weave their way through this military history: the adoption of a strategy to maintain a defensive posture in the West, an offensive strategy in the Balkans, and an expansionist policy in the East; maintenance of a large standing army; and a consistent unease about the army’s and non-Russian minorities’ loyalty to the state. These themes, he shows, have emerged in times of peace and war, as heads of state have made operational and strategic military decisions while managing civil-military relations—from the times of tsarist Russia through the collapse of the Soviet empire, when Putin sought to restore authoritarian rule and hegemony over the former Soviet states of the USSR. A comprehensive account of the history of the Russian army from 1801 to 2022, Reese’s is the first book to link Russian military history across three distinct eras and to situate this history within the context of military strategy and doctrine, as reflected in specific campaigns, issues of manning and maintaining an army, and relations between army and society, at home and in the “near abroad.”

The Battle of the Berezina

Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1848849443
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of the Berezina written by Alexander Mikaberidze and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full story of Napoleon’s legendary escape from Russia under seemingly impossible odds is recounted in this thrillingly vivid military history. In the winter of 1812, Napoleon's army retreated from Moscow under appalling conditions, hunted by three separate Russian armies. By late November, Napoleon had reached the banks of the River Berezina—the last natural obstacle between his army and the safety of the Polish frontier. But instead of finding the river frozen solid enough to march his men across, an unseasonable thaw had turned the Berezina into an icy torrent. Having already ordered the burning of his bridging equipment, Napoleon's predicament was serious enough: but with the army of Admiral Chichagov holding the opposite bank, and those of Kutusov and Wittgenstein closing fast, it was critical. In a gripping narrative that draws on contemporary sources—including letters, diaries and memoirs—Alexander Mikaberidze describes how Napoleon rose from the pit of despair to execute one of the greatest escapes in military history.

Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 20

Author : Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8893273667
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 20 written by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various ancient editions of the work, Mark Conrad’s translation is the first and the better to remain true to the original structure and essential style of the text. Conrad’s comprehensive translation is an indispensable resource for today's historian, strategists, and scholars. The Viskovatov’s enormous work is based on a great quantity of archival documents and contains four thousand colored and b/w illustrations. It is composed by 30 or 34 volumes (1st edition 1-30, St. Petersburg, 1841-62, and 2nd edition Vols. 1-34, St. Petersburg - Novosibirsk - Leningrad, 1899-1948). The topics discussed start from the early czars until the late nineteenth century. Soldiershop edition add at this important work several new enriched and colorful plates, which together with the unedited publication in English make this collection extremely interesting !

The Russian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (1)

Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782000267
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Russian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (1) written by Philip Haythornthwaite and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1795 the Russian army was as vast as the territory from which it was drawn. The College of War calculated that the regular army amounted to 541,741 men, plus 46,601 enrolled cossacks, and at least a further 100,000 irregular cavalry which could be mobilised in time of war. Inspired by the icons paraded by their priests before battle, the Russian infantry were capable of astonishing feats and total, blind obedience to orders. Philip Haythornwaite examines the organisation and uniforms of the remarkable Russian infantry troops who fought in the Napoleonic Wars.

The Czar's General

Author : Алексѣй Петрович Ермолов
Publisher : Ravenhall Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Czar's General written by Алексѣй Петрович Ермолов and published by Ravenhall Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yermolov (1777-1861) or Ermolov as the CiP data calls him, kept a detailed journal during the Napoleonic wars, which later served as the basis for his memoir. In addition to that 1812 Patriot War, he remembers his adolescence, the campaigns in Poland 1806-07, and his time as governor of Georgia and the war in Chechnya. American historian Mikaberidze is a specialist on Napoleonic Europe. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation :2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Russian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (1)

Author : Philip Haythornthwaite
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780969805
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Russian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (1) written by Philip Haythornthwaite and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1795 the Russian army was as vast as the territory from which it was drawn. The College of War calculated that the regular army amounted to 541,741 men, plus 46,601 enrolled cossacks, and at least a further 100,000 irregular cavalry which could be mobilised in time of war. Inspired by the icons paraded by their priests before battle, the Russian infantry were capable of astonishing feats and total, blind obedience to orders. Philip Haythornwaite examines the organisation and uniforms of the remarkable Russian infantry troops who fought in the Napoleonic Wars.

Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 8 - The grenadiers

Author : Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8893270404
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 8 - The grenadiers written by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various ancient editions of the work, Mark Conrad’s translation is the first and the better to remain true to the original structure and essential style of the text. Conrad’s comprehensive translation is an indispensable resource for today's historian, strategists, and scholars. The Viskovatov’s enormous work is based on a great quantity of archival documents and contains four thousand colored and b/w illustrations. It is composed by 30 or 34 volumes (1st edition 1-30, St. Petersburg, 1841-62, and 2nd edition Vols. 1-34, St. Petersburg - Novosibirsk - Leningrad, 1899-1948). The topics discussed start from the early czars until the late nineteenth century. Soldiershop edition add at this important work several new enriched and colorful plates, which together with the unedited publication in English make this collection extremely interesting !

Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war vol.18

Author : Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8893273500
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (932 download)

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Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 14

Author : Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8893273225
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 14 written by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various ancient editions of the work, Mark Conrad’s translation is the first and the better to remain true to the original structure and essential style of the text. Conrad’s comprehensive translation is an indispensable resource for today's historian, strategists, and scholars. The Viskovatov’s enormous work is based on a great quantity of archival documents and contains four thousand colored and b/w illustrations. It is composed by 30 or 34 volumes (1st edition 1-30, St. Petersburg, 1841-62, and 2nd edition Vols. 1-34, St. Petersburg - Novosibirsk - Leningrad, 1899-1948). The topics discussed start from the early czars until the late nineteenth century. Soldiershop edition add at this important work several new enriched and colorful plates, which together with the unedited publication in English make this collection extremely interesting !

The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917

Author : Roger R. Reese
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700628606
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917 written by Roger R. Reese and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1917, nine months after the disintegration of the Russian monarchy, the army officer corps, one of the dynasty’s prime pillars, finally fell—a collapse that, in light of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, historians often treat as inevitable. The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917 contests this assumption. By expanding our view of the Imperial Russian Army to include the experience of the enlisted ranks, Roger R. Reese reveals that the soldier’s revolt in 1917 was more social revolution than anti-war movement—and a revolution based on social distinctions within the officer corps as well as between the ranks. Reese’s account begins in the aftermath of the Crimean War, when the emancipation of the serfs and consequent introduction of universal military service altered the composition of the officer corps as well as the relationship between officers and soldiers. More catalyst than cause, World War I exacerbated a pervasive discontent among soldiers at their ill treatment by officers, a condition that reached all the way back to the founding of the Russian army by Peter I. It was the officers’ refusal to change their behavior toward the soldiers and each other over a fifty-year period, Reese argues, capped by their attack on the Provisional Government in 1917, that fatally weakened the officer corps in advance of the Bolshevik seizure of power. As he details the evolution of Russian Imperial Army over that period, Reese explains its concrete workings—from the conscription and discipline of soldiers to the recruitment and education of officers to the operation of unit economies, honor courts, and wartime reserves. Marshaling newly available materials, his book corrects distortions in both Soviet and Western views of the events of 1917 and adds welcome nuance and depth to our understanding of a critical turning point in Russian history.

The History of the Russian Campaign

Author : Count Philip de Segur
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Russian Campaign written by Count Philip de Segur and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Russian Cmpaign, Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 is a historical account of the French invasion of Russia, written by French general and a historian Count Philip de Segur. The French invasion of Russia of 1812 was begun by Napoleon to force Russia back into the Continental blockade of the United Kingdom. On 24 June 1812 and the following days, the first wave of the multinational Grande Armée crossed the border into Russia with somewhere around 600,000 soldiers, the opposing Russian field forces amounted to around 180,000–200,000 at this time. Through a series of long forced marches, Napoleon pushed his army rapidly through Western Russia in a futile attempt to destroy the retreating Russian Army of Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, winning just the Battle of Smolensk in August. Under its new Commander in Chief Mikhail Kutuzov, the Russian Army continued to retreat employing attrition warfare against Napoleon forcing the invaders to rely on a supply system that was incapable of feeding their large army in the field. The fierce Battle of Borodino, seventy miles west of Moscow, was a narrow French victory that resulted in a Russian general withdrawal to the south of Moscow near Kaluga. On 14 September, Napoleon and his army of about 100,000 men occupied Moscow, only to find it abandoned, and the city was soon ablaze. Napoleon stayed in Moscow for 5 weeks, waiting for a peace offer that never came. Lack of food for the men and fodder for the horses, hypothermia from the bitter cold and guerilla warfare from Russian peasants and Cossacks led to great losses. Three days after the Battle of Berezina, only around 10,000 soldiers of the main army remained. On 5 December, Napoleon left the army and returned to Paris.

Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 22

Author : Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8893273683
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 22 written by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various ancient editions of the work, Mark Conrad’s translation is the first and the better to remain true to the original structure and essential style of the text. Conrad’s comprehensive translation is an indispensable resource for today's historian, strategists, and scholars. The Viskovatov’s enormous work is based on a great quantity of archival documents and contains four thousand colored and b/w illustrations. It is composed by 30 or 34 volumes (1st edition 1-30, St. Petersburg, 1841-62, and 2nd edition Vols. 1-34, St. Petersburg - Novosibirsk - Leningrad, 1899-1948). The topics discussed start from the early czars until the late nineteenth century. Soldiershop edition add at this important work several new enriched and colorful plates, which together with the unedited publication in English make this collection extremely interesting !

Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 17

Author : Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
ISBN 13 : 889327325X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 17 written by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various ancient editions of the work, Mark Conrad’s translation is the first and the better to remain true to the original structure and essential style of the text. Conrad’s comprehensive translation is an indispensable resource for today's historian, strategists, and scholars. The Viskovatov’s enormous work is based on a great quantity of archival documents and contains four thousand colored and b/w illustrations. It is composed by 30 or 34 volumes (1st edition 1-30, St. Petersburg, 1841-62, and 2nd edition Vols. 1-34, St. Petersburg - Novosibirsk - Leningrad, 1899-1948). The topics discussed start from the early czars until the late nineteenth century. Soldiershop edition add at this important work several new enriched and colorful plates, which together with the unedited publication in English make this collection extremely interesting !

Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 9

Author : Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
ISBN 13 : 889327115X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 9 written by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various ancient editions of the work, Mark Conrad’s translation is the first and the better to remain true to the original structure and essential style of the text. Conrad’s comprehensive translation is an indispensable resource for today's historian, strategists, and scholars. The Viskovatov’s enormous work is based on a great quantity of archival documents and contains four thousand colored and b/w illustrations. It is composed by 30 or 34 volumes (1st edition 1-30, St. Petersburg, 1841-62, and 2nd edition Vols. 1-34, St. Petersburg - Novosibirsk - Leningrad, 1899-1948). The topics discussed start from the early czars until the late nineteenth century. Soldiershop edition add at this important work several new enriched and colorful plates, which together with the unedited publication in English make this collection extremely interesting !