Second Western Army

The Second Western Army was created during 1810 as part of the reform of the Imperial Russian Army as a whole and was intended to defend the central western region of the Russian border with Poland to the Austrian border during the expected French invasion of Russia.

Commanders

Commander-in-Chief General of the Infantry Prince P.I. Bagration
Chief of Staff – Major General Graf E.F. de Saint-Priest
General-quartermaster – Major General M.S. Vistitskiy 2nd
Duty General – Fligel-adjutant Colonel S.N. Marin
Chief of Artillery – Major General Baron K.F. Levenshtern
Chief of Engineers – Major General E.Kh. Ferster

7th Infantry Corps – Lieutenant General N.N. Raevsky
8th Infantry Corps – Lieutenant General M.M. Borozdin
4th Cavalry Corps – Major General Graf K.K. Sivers

Order

The total strength of the army was 46 infantry battalions, 52 cavalry squadrons, 9 Cossack regiments, and 180 cannon. The Second Western Army had approximately 45,000−49,423 men, and during the time of June-July, 1812, according to generals Barclay de Tolly, Bagration and Tormasov, was positioned along a 50-mile long front near the areas of Volkovysk and Belostok.