Report on the Losses of Russian Artillery Units at the Battle of Austerlitz

Note: This report was drafted on 4 December 1842 at the Artillery Department Archive in response to the inquiry of Lieutenant General Alexander Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky, who was working on his history of 1805-1807 Campaigns. The document is based on the reports of the artillery commanders, however it is missing information on some units. It should be considered together with the report of Major General Bogdanov, who commanded the Russian artillery at Austerlitz (See in the end of the document)

Date: 22 November/ 4 December 1842

Original Title: ‘Iz vedomostei o poteriakh artilleriiskikh chastei v srazhenii pri Austerlitse’

Source: M.I. Kutuzov: Sbornik Dokumentov, pod redaktsiei polkovnika L.G. Beskrovnogo [M.I. Kutuzov: Compilation of Documents, ed. By Col. L[iubomir] G. Beskrovny], Moscow, 1951, II, 237-239

Original preserved at Rossiiski Gosudarstvenii Voenno-Istoricheskii Arkhiv (RGVIA), file VUA.

Before the Battle

Units	Strength Present at the Battle
	Officers	Privates	Guns	Caissons	Wagons	Horses
Life Guard Artillery Battalion	22	662	42	66	-	412
½ Artillery Company of the Battalion of the Imperial Militia[1]	4	117	6	12	-	96
1^st Horse Artillery Battalion: Colonel Yashvili's and Colonel Yermolov's Company	13	499	48	77	-	544
2^nd Horse Regiment	30	1022	53	48	-	1217
3^rd Artillery Regiment:
Colonel Kudryavtsev’s Battery Company			12	12	12	244
Major Slizov’s Light Company			12	12	-	136
Colonel Count Syver’s Battery Company	48	2174	12	12	12	248
Major Sigizmund’s Battery Company			12	12	12	148
Major Klingenberg’s Light Company			12	-	12	142
Major Yushkov’s Light Company			12	-	12	148
4^th Artillery Regiment:
Colonel Marten’s Battery Company			12	36	-	226
Major Vitovtov’s Light Company	34	2033	12	24	-	229
Major Mitrofanov’s Light Company[2]			12	24	-	242
Major Boguslavsky’s Battery Company	6	232	12	24	-	260
5^th Artillery Regiment:						2040
Major Guine’s Light Company			12	24	-
Major Staden’s Light Company			10	18	-
Chef Battery Company[3]			-	-	-
Vacant Battery Company[4]	39	2030	-	-	-
Colonel Golostenov’s Battery Company			-	-	-
Major Anzio’s Light Company			12	12	-
Major Stein’s Light Company [5]			-	-	-
Total	196	8769	300	413	60	6692

Strength After the Battle

Units	Killed, Captured, and Missing in Action
	Officers	Privates	Guns	Caissons	Wagons	Horses
Life Guard Artillery Battalion	1	40	3	11	-	213
½ Artillery Company of the Battalion of the Imperial Militia[6]	-	-	-	-	-	16
1^st Horse Artillery Battalion: Colonel Yashvili's and Colonel Yermolov's Company	1	101	14	17	2	273
2^nd Horse Regiment	1	22	-	-	-	62
3^rd Artillery Regiment:
Colonel Kudryavtsev’s Battery Company			9	18	-	113
Major Slizov’s Light Company			9	9	-	109
Colonel Count Syver’s Battery Company	10	519	12	12	12	152
Major Sigizmund’s Battery Company			12	12	12	121
Major Klingenberg’s Light Company			9	-	10	100
Major Yushkov’s Light Company			9	-	12	118
4^th Artillery Regiment:
Colonel Marten’s Battery Company			7	-	16	156
Major Vitovtov’s Light Company			10	17	-	80
Major Mitrofanov’s Light Company[7]			12	23	-	88
Major Boguslavsky’s Battery Company	1	44	8	7	-	63
5^th Artillery Regiment:
Major Guine’s Light Company			12	24	-	70
Major Staden’s Light Company	10	11	10	18	-	65
Chef Battery Company[8]	-	-	-	-	-	15
Vacant Battery Company[9]	-	-	-	-	-	6
Colonel Golostenov’s Battery Company	-	-	-	-	-	-
Major Anzio’s Light Company	12	12	12	12	-	66
Major Stein’s Light Company	12	18	12	18	-	77
Total	48	767	160	198	64	1963

[Signature] Head of the Archive Kern

Report of Major General N.I. Bogdanov, commander of the Russian Artillery at Austerlitz, to Artillery Inspector General Aleksey Arakcheyev, 23 November/5 December 1805

	Men		Artillery		Horses
	Before Battle	Killed	Before Battle	Lost	Before Battle	Killed
Staff Officers	10	4
Ober-Officers	38	27
Rank-and-File	1976	1235
Guns			133	39
Caissons			100	18
Wagons			106	5
Horses					1545	1011

Notes

[1] Original Title of the Unit: Bataliona Imperatorskoi militsii ½ artileriskaia rota

[2] Note in the Original: “Half of Major Mitrofanov’s Company, that was attached to Butyrsk regiment, was entirely lost in action.”

[3] Original Title of the Unit: ‘Batareinois shefskaya rota'

[4] Original Title of the Unit: Batareinoi vakantnaya rota'

[5] Information on Stein’s company is missing in the report, though there is data on its losses.

[6] Original Title of the Unit: 'Bataliona Imperatorskoi militsii ½ artileriskaia rota'

[7] Note in the Original: “Half of Major Mitrofanov’s Company, that was attached to Butyrsk regiment, was entirely lost in action.”

[8] Original Title of the Unit: ‘Batareinois shefskaya rota'

[9] Original Title of the Unit: 'Batareinoi vakantnaya rota'

Placed on the Napoleon Series: November 2002

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