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.

The Field Marshals' Hall of the Winter Palace. Russian cuirassiers can be seen observing the paintings.
YearNameDates
 1700 Count Fedor Golovin1650–1706
1701Count Boris Sheremetev1652–1719
1709Prince Alexander Menshikov1673–1729
1725Prince Anikita Repnin1668–1726
1725Prince Mikhail Galitzine1675–1730
1726Count Jacob Bruce1670–1735
1726Jan Kazimierz SapiehaBefore 1679–1730
1728Prince Ivan Trubetskoy1667–1750
1728Prince Vasily Vladimirovich Dolgorukov1667–1746
1732Count Burkhard Christoph von Munnich1683–1767
1736Count Peter von Lacy1678–1751
1742Ludwig Johann Wilhelm Gruno von Hessen-Homburg1705–1745
1756Stepan Apraksin1702–1758
1756Nikita Yurievich Trubetskoy1699–1767
1756Count Alexander Buturlin1694–1767
1756Count Alexei Razumovsky1709–1771
1759Count Pyotr Saltykov1698–1772
1761Count Alexander Ivanovich Shuvalov1710–1771
1761Count Pyotr Ivanovich Shuvalov1711–1762
1761Peter August Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck1697–1775
1762Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp1719–1763
1762Count Alexei Bestuzhev-Ryumin1693–1766
1762Prince Nikita Trubetskoy1699–1769
1764Count Kirill Razumovsky1728–1803
1769Prince Alexander Galitzine1718–1783
1770Count Pyotr Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky1725–1796
1773Count Zakhar Chernyshyov1722–1784
1784Prince Grigori Potemkin1739–1791
1794Prince Aleksander Suvorov1729–1800
1796Count Ivan Saltykov1730–1805
1796Prince Nicholas Repnin1734–1801
1796Prince Nikolay Saltykov1736–1816
1796Count Ivan Chernyshyov1726–1797
1797Count Johann Martin von Elmpt1725–1802
1797Count Valentin Platonovich Musin-Pushkin1735–1804
1797Count Mikhail Kamensky1738–1809
1797Victor François de Broglie, 2nd duc de Brogliey1718–1804
1807Prince Alexander Prozorovsky1732–1809
1807Count Ivan Gudovich1741–1820
1812Prince Mikhail Golenischev-Kutuzov1745–1813
1814Prince Mikhail Barclay de Tolly1761–1818
1825Prince Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken1752–1837
1826Ludwig Adolph Peter, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg-Ludwigsburg1769–1843
1829Prince Ivan Paskevich1782–1856
1829Count Hans Karl von Diebitsch-Zabalkansky  1785–1831
1850Prince Pyotr Volkonsky1776–1852
1856Prince Mikhail Vorontsov1782–1856
1859Prince Alexander Baryatinsky1815–1879
1866Count Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg1793–1874
1878Grand Duke Nikolas Nikolaevich1831–1891
1878Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich1832–1909
1894Count Joseph Vladimirovich Gourko1828–1901
1898Count Dmitry Milyutin1816–1912

The title of Russian Field Marshal was also bestowed on several foreign citizens:

Epaulette of Field marshal of Russian Vyborg 85th Infantry Regiment of German Emperor Wilhelm II
YearNameDates
 1700 Charles Eugène, Duc de Croy1651–1702
1762Charles Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck1690–1774
1774 Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt1719–1790
1815 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington  1769–1852
1836 Josef Graf zu Radetzky von Radetz1766–1858
1837 Archduke Johann of Austria1782–1859
1872 Helmuth Graf von Moltke1800–1891
1872 Archduke Albrecht of Austria1817–1895
1872 Crown Prince Albert of Saxony1828–1902
1872 Prince Friedrich Karl Alexander of Prussia1801–1883
1872 Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus of Prussia1828–1885
1872 Prince Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht of Prussia1809–1872
1872 Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia1831–1888
1888[1] Wilhelm II of Prussia1859–1941
1910 King Nicholas I of Montenegro1841–1921
1912 King Carol I of Romania1839–1914

See also

References
  1. Полное собрание законов Российской Империи. Собрание третье. Том VIII: 1888 год (Приказы № 4933–5685). Приказ №5356 от 14 июня 1888 года.
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