List of Russian field marshals

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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 rank of "Marshal of the Soviet Union" when military ranks were restored under Stalin's rule.

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Hall of Russian field marshals in the Winter Palace. Russian cuirassiers can be seen observing the paintings.
Year Name Dates
 1700  Count Fedor Golovin 1650–1706
1701 Count Boris Sheremetev 1652–1719
1709 Prince Alexander Menshikov 1673–1729
1725 Prince Anikita Repnin 1668–1726
1725 Prince Mikhail Galitzine 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 von Munnich 1683–1767
1736 Count Peter von Lacy 1678–1751
1742 Ludwig Johann Wilhelm Gruno von Hessen-Homburg 1705–1745
1756 Stepan Apraksin 1702–1758
1756 Nikita Yurievich 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 Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp 1719–1763
1762 Count Alexei Bestuzhev-Ruymin 1693–1766
1762 Prince Nikita Trubetskoy 1699–1769
1764 Count Kirill Razumovsky 1728–1803
1769 Prince Alexander Galitzine 1718–1783
1770 Count Pyotr Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky 1725–1796
1773 Count Zakhar Chernyshyov 1722–1784
1784 Prince Grigori Potemkin 1739–1791
1794 Prince Aleksander Suvorov 1729–1800
1796 Count Ivan Saltykov 1730–1805
1796 Prince Nicholas Repnin 1734–1801
1796 Prince Nikolay Saltykov 1736–1816
1796 Count Ivan Chernyshyov 1726–1797
1797 Count Ivan Elmpt 1725–1802
1797 Count Valentin Platonovich Musin-Pushkin 1735–1804
1797 Count Mikhail Kamensky 1738–1809
1797 Victor François de Broglie, 2nd duc de Brogliey 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 Osten-Sacken 1752–1837
1826 Prince Peter Wittgenstein 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 Alexander Baryatinsky 1815–1879
1865 Count Friedrich Wilhelm Berg 1793–1874
1878 Grand Duke Nikolas Nikolaevich 1831–1891
1878 Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich 1832–1909
1894 Count Joseph Vladimirovich Gourko 1828–1901
1898 Count Dmitry Milyutin 1816–1912

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

Year Name Dates
 1700  Charles Eugène, Duc de Croy 1651–1702
1762 Charles Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck 1690–1774
1774 Hesse Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt 1719–1790
1815 United Kingdom Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington   1769–1852
1836 Austrian Empire Josef Graf zu Radetzky von Radetz 1766–1858
1837 Austrian Empire Archduke Johann of Austria 1782–1859
1872 German Empire Helmuth Graf von Moltke 1800–1891
1872 Austria-Hungary Archduke Albrecht of Austria 1817–1895
1872 German Empire Albert of Saxony 1828–1902
1872 German Empire Prince Frederick Charles Alexander of Prussia 1801–1883
1872 German Empire Prince Friedrich Carl Nicolaus of Prussia 1828–1885
1872 German Empire Prince Albert of Prussia 1809–1872
1872 German Empire Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia 1831–1888
1910 Kingdom of Montenegro King Nicholas I of Montenegro 1841–1921
1912 Kingdom of Romania King Carol I of Romania 1839–1914

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