General-feldmarshal (, from ) was, with the exception of generalissimo, the highest military rank of the Russian Empire. It was a military rank of the 1st class in the Imperial Russian Army and equal to those of Chancellor and Active Privy Councillor, 1st class in civil service, and General Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the rank was abolished, alongside the Table of Ranks. In 1935 however, the Red Army introduced the equivalent rank of "Marshal of the Soviet Union" () as the highest military rank of the Soviet Union, when ranks were restored under Stalin's rule.
List The rank of field marshal was bestowed on the following 64 Imperial Russian Army officers: Генерал-фельдмаршалы Российской империи
Appointed Portrait Name Lifespan 1700 Count Fyodor Golovin 1650–1706 1701 Count Boris Sheremetev 1652–1719 1709 Prince Alexander Danilovich Menshikov 1673–1729 1725 Prince Anikita Repnin 1668–1726 1725 Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn 1675–1730 1726 Count Jacob Bruce 1670–1735 1726 Jan Kazimierz Sapieha Before 1679–1730 1728 Prince Ivan Trubetskoy 1667–1750 1728 Prince Vasily Vladimirovich Dolgorukov 1667–1746 1732 Count Burkhard Christoph von Münnich 1683–1767 1736 Count Peter von Lacy 1678–1751 1742 Prince Ludwig Gruno von Hesse-Homburg 1705–1745 1756 Stepan Apraksin 1702–1758 1756 Prince Nikita Trubetskoy 1699–1767 1756 Count Alexander Buturlin 1694–1767 1756 Count Alexei Razumovsky 1709–1771 1759 Count Pyotr Saltykov 1698–1772 1761 Count Alexander Ivanovich Shuvalov 1710–1771 1761 Count Pyotr Ivanovich Shuvalov 1711–1762 1761 Peter August Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck 1697–1775 1762 Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp 1719–1763 1762 Count Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin 1693–1766 1762 Prince Nikita Trubetskoy 1699–1769 1764 Count Kirill Razumovsky 1728–1803 1769 Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Golitsyn 1718–1783 1770 Count Pyotr Rumyantsev 1725–1796 1773 Count Zakhar Chernyshev 1722–1784 1784 Prince Grigory Potemkin 1739–1791 1794 Prince Aleksandr Suvorov 1729–1800 1796 Count Ivan Saltykov 1730–1805 1796 Prince Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin 1734–1801 1796 Prince Nikolai Saltykov 1736–1816 1796 Count Ivan Chernyshyov 1726–1797 1797 Count Johann Martin von Elmpt 1725–1802 1797 Count Valentin Musin-Pushkin 1735–1804 1797 Count Mikhail Kamensky 1738–1809 1797 Victor François de Broglie, 2nd Duke of Broglie 1718–1804 1807 Prince Alexander Prozorovsky 1732–1809 1807 Count Ivan Gudovich 1741–1820 1812 Prince Mikhail Golenischev-Kutuzov 1745–1813 1814 Prince Mikhail Barclay de Tolly 1761–1818 1825 Prince Fabian Gottlieb von der Osten-Sacken 1752–1837 1826 Ludwig Adolph Peter, Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg-Ludwigsburg 1769–1843 1829 Prince Ivan Paskevich 1782–1856 1829 Count Hans Karl von Diebitsch-Zabalkansky 1785–1831 1850 Prince Pyotr Volkonsky 1776–1852 1856 Prince Mikhail Vorontsov 1782–1856 1859 Prince Aleksandr Baryatinsky 1815–1879 1866 Count Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg 1793–1874 1878 Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich 1831–1891 1878 Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich 1832–1909 1894 Count Iosif Vladimirovich Gurko 1828–1901 1898 Count Dmitry Milyutin 1816–1912
Honorific rank to foreigners The honorific rank of field marshal was also bestowed on several foreign citizens:
Appointed Portrait Name Lifespan 1700 Charles Eugène, Duc de Croy 1651–1702 1762 Charles Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck 1690–1774 1774 Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt 1719–1790 1818 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769–1852 1836 Josef Graf zu Radetzky von Radetz 1766–1858 1837 Archduke Johann of Austria 1782–1859 1872 Helmuth Graf von Moltke 1800–1891 1872 Archduke Albrecht of Austria 1817–1895 1872 Albert, Crown Prince of Saxony 1828–1902 1872 Prince Friedrich Karl Alexander of Prussia 1801–1883 1872 Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolaus of Prussia 1828–1885 1872 Prince Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht of Prussia 1809–1872 1872 Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia 1831–1888 1888Полное собрание законов Российской Империи. Собрание третье. Том VIII: 1888 год (Приказы № 4933–5685). Приказ №5356 от 14 июня 1888 года. Wilhelm II, German Emperor 1859–1941 1910 King Nicholas I of Montenegro 1841–1921 1912 King Carol I of Romania 1839–1914
See also History of Russian military ranks Generalissimo of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Russian Federation List of field marshals
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