Information on the regiments of General, Count P. I. Panin

For the most part, the regiments that became part of the Second Army of Peter Panin were the regiments of the so-called Ukrainian line, created by Peter the Great to protect the southern borders of the country from the raids of the Tatars and Poles. As a rule, these regiments were the regiments of the landmilitia, the so-called settled regiments, tied to one, specific territory. Among the irregular regiments, there were also many units in the Land Militia, but there were also those that were created by Bohdan Khmelnitsky, for the most part - Little Russian and sociable. Part of the regiments were regiments of a new territorial formation - New Serbia, created by immigrants from Serbia, namely Raiko Preradovich and Ivan Shevic, who moved to Russia with a significant number of their fellow tribesmen. A significant part of the troops were Don Cossacks, which also included Kalmyk units.

Rostov Carabinieri Regiment

It was formed in August 1706 as a regiment of dragoons by Colonel Tikhon Streshnev in Moscow by the boyar Streshnev from commoners of Ukrainian cities, monastic servants and boyar people. On March 30, 1756, the regiment was reorganized into two grenadier and 10 dragoon companies, with an artillery team attached to the regiment. Until 1763, the regiment was a dragoon. On January 14, 1763, it was named the Rostov Carabinieri Regiment. In 1766 he was introduced into the Ukrainian division with a permanent deployment in the city of Starodubov. It is known from the literature that the regiment, during the assault on the Bendery fortress, captured one of the enemy batteries. Since 1796, again named dragoon. In 1800 he was disbanded and sent to reinforce other dragoon regiments.

Yamburg Carabinieri Regiment

It was formed in 1707 as the Ustyug Dragoon Regiment from recruits from townspeople. From November 1712 it was named the Yamburg Dragoon Regiment. On January 14, 1763, it was named the Yamburg Carabinieri Regiment, consisting of five squadrons of two companies each. In 1766, the regiment became part of the Ukrainian division, stationed in the city of Bubnov.

Pskov Carabinieri Regiment 

In July 1701, the head of the Kazan and Astrakhan orders, the boyar Prince Boris Alekseevich Golitsyn, formed in Moscow in the Golden Chamber from nobles, reiters and their undersized children - Zaotsk, Moscow Region and lower cities, a 10-company dragoon regiment, named after its first commander, the dragoon Regiment of Colonel Fyodor Aristovich Novikov. On March 10, 1708, the regiment was named the Pskov Dragoon Regiment. Since January 14, 1763 - the Pskov Carabinieri Regiment, included in five squadrons.  

In 1766, the regiment became part of the Ukrainian division, stationed in Poltava. In 1769, the commander of the regiment was the brigadier, Prince Ivan Bagration. Of the famous people, in 1778, the young cornet M.I. came to serve in the regiment. Barclay de Tolly.  

Borisoglebsky Dragoon Regiment

It was created on January 15, 1731 as the Borisoglebsk cavalry regiment of the Ukrainian Land Militia.[1] (settled army) in the city of Borisoglebsk. March 19, 1736 the regiment was reorganized into a horse. Since December 15, 1763, the Borisoglebsky Dragoon Landmilitsky Regiment. The composition of the regiment - headquarters and two dragoon companies. By 1766 he became part of the Ukrainian division, was quartered in Kharkov. On January 16, 1769, he was named the Borisoglebsky Dragoon Regiment, relocated to the city of Pereslavl. During the campaign against Bendery, he was equated with infantry regiments. Before Bendery, apart from guarding the Ukrainian line, he did not participate in battles and battles. In 1775 he was attached to the Astrakhan Dragoon to strengthen it.

Astrakhan Dragoon Regiment

The regiment under this name is listed in the Second Army of P. Panin in the order for the troops, but it is very difficult to determine which particular regiment in question. According to service and viewing lists of the Russian army for the period from 1730 to 1796, the Russian army included eight regiments, called Astrakhan. Three dragoons, one of which is a garrison; 2 grenadiers, one of which is an equestrian grenadier; 1 carabinieri and 2 infantry. But, directly to the company 1769-1770. a regiment with that name is not listed in the army. At the same time, none of the Astrakhan regiments was part of the Ukrainian division. This, most likely, is about the Astrakhan Infantry Regiment, later the Astrakhan Grenadier Regiment, which was formed on June 25, 1700 by Prince Trubetskoy from 850 recruits in Novgorod as an infantry regiment of Roman Bruce, consisting of two battalions. Before the events described, he changed his name to the Vologda and 2nd St. Petersburg Infantry Regiment, but on July 5, 1762, his first name was returned to him. Since 1757 he was stationed in the city of Velikiye Luki.

From 17630 to 1770 the commander of the regiment was Colonel I.V. Gudovich, one of the famous people, in 1783 Prince P.I. Bagration. In the period 1762-63. regiment chief was Suvorov Alexander Vasilyevich, therefore, in some documents, the regiment is called Suvorov.

2nd Grenadier Infantry Regiment

(later 2nd Tauride Grenadier and 6th Tauride Grenadier Regiment)

One of the four regiments formed on March 30, 1756 during the restoration of individual grenadier units in Russia. Formed from grenadier companies expelled from the St. Petersburg, Novgorod, Siberian, Azov, Voronezh and other infantry regiments as the 2nd Grenadier Regiment, consisting of two battalions of 5 companies each. It was originally stationed in Reval, and then near Riga. In Bender, in addition to general tasks, he also guarded the Headquarters of the army.  

Voronezh Infantry Regiment

The regiment was formed in Moscow by General Veide on June 25, 1700, consisting of 10 companies, under the name of the infantry regiment Fyodor Balk.

Veide, after the death of F. Lefort in March 1699, took command of the Lefortovsky regiment and was granted the rank of brigadier-general. In 1703, a grenadier company was formed with the regiment; On March 10, 1708, the regiment was named the Voronezh Infantry Regiment.

From February 16 to November 13, 1727, the regiment was called the 5th Moscow Infantry Regiment. On October 28, 1731, the grenadier company was destroyed, and the regiment was brought into the 8 Fusiliers companies. from April 25 to July 5, 1762 by the Musketeer Field Marshal Prince von Holstein Regiment. On January 14, 1763, the regiment was assigned to 2 battalions with an artillery team. Subsequently, the regiment, in connection with the transfer of its battalions to replenish the Azov and Morshansky infantry regiments, ceased to exist under its own name. It is the Morshansky regiment that leads its seniority from the Voronezh regiment.

Chernihiv Infantry Regiment

Just like the Voronezh regiment, it was formed by General Weide on June 25, 1700 under the name of the infantry von Shweden regiment, consisting of 10 companies. In 1705 it was called the Gassenius Infantry Regiment, and from March 10, 1708, the Chernihiv Infantry Regiment. Also in its history bore the name of the Uglitz Infantry Regiment. In terms of recruitment, it completely repeats the Voronezh regiment. In history, the regiment is known for supporting the Decembrist uprising in 1725, led by lieutenant colonels Muravyov-Apostolov and Bestuzhev. and in January 1826 was defeated by government troops, as a result of which it was reorganized, more than 800 people of the regiment were demoted to soldiers and exiled to the Caucasus.

Belevsky (Beletsky) Infantry Regiment

The regiment was formed as a result of the general reformation of the Russian army on December 15, 1763, consisting of two battalions, each of which had 1 grenadier and 5 musketeer companies, and was included in the Ukrainian landmilitsky corps. A regiment was formed from small landed nobles, later deprived of their noble rank and called one-palaces - one of the categories of state peasants, formed to carry out sentinel and guard service on the southern border, obliged to serve for 15 years. The final name of the regiment
received January 16, 1769. Since 1765, the regiment was commanded by Colonel Nikolai Glebov. The campaign against Bendery was the first baptism of fire for the regiment. From the journal of military operations and the history of the regiment, it is known that upon arrival in Bender, when the army was crossing the Bik River, he took part in repulsing the attack of the Turkish cavalry. Also, a special detachment was allocated from this regiment to strengthen the corps of General Kamensky for the siege of the fortress from the east, on the left side of the Dniester River.

Of the famous personalities on April 7, 1795, Brigadier Prince Dmitry Semenovich Lvov was appointed commander of the Belevsky regiment.

Bryansk Infantry Regiment

Like many of the above regiments, this regiment was formed on April 4, 1723 as a regiment of the Ukrainian Land Militia, under the name of Colonel Ivanenkov Regiment. It received its permanent name on February 16, 1727, like the other five similar newly formed regiments, at the place of its cantonment. The regiment was mounted and divided into 10 companies. There were 1,500 people in it according to the state, but according to the lists for 1732, the personnel amounted to 1053 units. Initially, the regiment was formed from recruits, recruited for the most part from the cities (towns) of Hotmyzhsk, Rylsk, Volny and Miropol. Subsequently, the recruiting system for landmilitsky regiments temporarily began to have a definite territorial character, and only people from the Bryansk lands could serve in this regiment.

The newly formed regiments, including the Bryansk Regiment, entered the Ukrainian division, transferred to the command of the general-in-chief, the governor-general of Little Russia, the president of the Little Russian collegium, the head of the Little Russian regiments and Zaporozhye Cossacks, Count P. A. Rumyantsev. By the same decree, the division was ordered to be completed, as before the Ukrainian corps, with South Russian odnodvortsy. Before the start of the Russian-Turkish war of 1768-1774, seeing the insufficient training of these regiments, Rumyantsev from 1769 began to transform them into infantry and dragoon regiments with appropriate training and education. After the capture of Bender, on November 8, 1770, all the regiments of the landmilitia were brought by state to the usual old army regiments.

It was this regiment that gave its ribbons from the banners to the newly formed Bryansk Infantry Regiment in 1806.

Yelets Infantry Regiment

In fact, the regiment was formed on February 2, 1713, when Peter I established settled troops to protect the southern border of the state. Then the infantry regiments of Zhdanov, Grigorov, Vorontsov, Bulart and Postelnikov were formed with the addition of dragoons, soldiers, Cossacks and artillerymen to reinforce the garrison troops of the Kiev province, reorganized into 7 foot regiments (100 people each) and it was they who formed this settled army. On December 15, 1763, during the reorganization of the Ukrainian corps, consisting of 20 cavalry regiments, one Borisoglebsky cavalry and 10 foot regiments were created, one of which was Yelets. It was formed as part of two battalions, each of which had one grenadier and five musketeer companies. It is from this date that the regiment conducts its seniority. 

It received its name on the basis of the Decree of the Senate of December 11, 1732, No. 6279, like other regiments of the Land Militia. January 16, 1769 the regiment was named Yelets Infantry. In the statement of the church of the regiment, preserved in the archive, there is such an entry: “ On January 16, 1769, the Yelets regiment was named infantry and at the beginning of the same 1769 participated in repelling the Crimean Tatars' raid on Little Russia, and then participated in the siege of the Bendery fortress and taking it by storm. On September 15/16, 1770, before the offensive, a prayer service was performed by the regimental priest. This information is taken from the description of the war with the Turks of 1769-1774. There is information in the sources that near Bendery in 1770, the grenadier companies of the regiment took part in the battles with the Turks, and during the assault, two companies of the regiment distinguished themselves in the assault column of Colonel Wasserman.

Kozlovsky Infantry Regiment

In 1657, as a result of the military-administrative reform, which assumed the creation and permanent existence of a large military unit of the Belgorod regiment, in Yablonov, near Belgorod, units were created from the settled regiments of Alexander Krafet, Yagan Krafet and John Leslie, created earlier in 1653. These regiments, as a militia, had already managed to take part in the war with Poland in 1654, at the end of which they were disbanded to their homes.

It was then, in 1657, that the 3rd Kozlovsky Soldiers' Regiment was created and was commanded by Colonel J. Ronort. It included mainly old soldiers recruited in 1653, as well as boyar children. The initial strength of the Kozlovsky regiment was 1575 people.

After the Streltsy rebellion and its suppression, many of the old regiments were disbanded. In 1711, permanent garrisons were established in Russia, which included the archery and reytar regiments remaining from the previous time, as well as hussars, spearmen and city Cossacks. Garrison regiments were named after provinces and cities. At this time, the Kozlovsky garrison regiment was formed, which, together with the Tanbovsky (Tambovsky) and other regiments (Korotkoyaksky, Yeletsky, Pavlovsky), were part of the garrison of the Osered fortress (now the city of Pavlovsk, Voronezh region). Later, the regiment was renamed the 3rd Simbirsk, then the Belgorod garrison regiment was named Kozlovsky, and the Simbirsk became Samara. In 1732, the regiment became known as the Kozlovsky garrison infantry regiment. December 15, 1763 - twenty cavalry regiments that made up the Ukrainian Landmilitia were reorganized into eleven foot and one horse regiments, Kozlovsky was among them.
The first battalion of the Kozlovsky regiment was settled at the fortress of St. Fyodor, the second - at the Kozlovsky fortress. In 1742, the regiment consisted of 1386 people, 87% of which were recruited from Kozlov.

Kursk Infantry Regiment

In fact, it was formed as a landmilitsky regiment in 1725 under the name of the Kigich regiment. Kursk got its name on November 6, 1727. On January 15, 1731, he became part of the Ukrainian Land Militia of the South of Russia. The history of the regiment is in many ways similar to the Landmilitia regiments listed above. The seniority of the regiment is indicated from October 1, 1763, when the Kursk Regiment of the Ukrainian Corps was officially formed. Subsequently, he gave his battalions to replenish the Smolensk and Yaroslavl regiments, it is the latter who leads his seniority from the Kursk regiment.

Oryol Infantry Regiment

The first military formation in the Russian army, which bore the name "Orlovsky", was formed in accordance with the Decree of Emperor Peter II of November 6, 1727. This normative act was intended to streamline affairs in the Ukrainian landmilitia - the original element of the military organization of the Russian Empire, which existed intermittently in 1713-1763

According to its provisions, all the landmilitsky regiments that were available at that time began to be named not by the names of the commanders who formed them, but by the names of southern Russian cities or counties. So, the cavalry regiment of Lvov now received the name "Orlovsky cavalry regiment". In 1732, the regiment had a strength of 1046 people. (2 battalions) and was formed mainly from the recruits of the city of Voronezh and Stary Oskol. The first battalion of the regiment was settled near the new Orlovskaya fortress, named after the regiment, the second in the fortress of St. Paraskeva. According to the states approved in 1734,

The Oryol cavalry regiment was supposed to have 1077 people, including 4 headquarters and 29 chief officers, 70 non-commissioned officers and corporals, 880 lower ranks and 31 musicians. The seniority of the regiment is from December 15, 1763, when it became known as the Oryol Infantry. Then the Oryol Infantry Regiment consisted of two battalions of six companies each. One of the companies of the battalion was shock - grenadier, the rest - musketeers. From the literature it is known that the grenadiers of the Orlovsky regiment distinguished themselves during the assault on the Turkish fortress of Bendery on September 15-16, 1770.

Ryazhsky Infantry Regiment

It was formed from odnodvortsev by decree of January 15, 1731, among 14 cavalry regiments of the Ukrainian Land Militia to protect the southern border. December 11, 1732 it was reorganized into foot. In 1733, the regiment had a strength of only 603 people. from the recruits of the city of Kozlov and Ryazhsk. 

The first battalion was settled near the fortress of the same name, the second at the Vasilievskaya fortress.

On March 19, 1736, he was again mounted, part of the newly created Ukrainian landmilitsky corps, settled on the Ukrainian line. On December 15, 1763, the Ryazhsky regiment was reorganized into an unsettled foot regiment. From this day on, the seniority of the regiment is calculated as an infantry regiment of the regular army. The regiment consisted of 2 battalions, 10 fusilier companies and 1 artillery team. On January 16, 1769, the regiment became officially called an infantry regiment, the battalions began to consist of 1 grenadier and 5 musketeer companies.

The regiment from 1766 was part of the 8th Ukrainian division. The city of Lubny was determined as the place of his permanent registration. The commander of the regiment from 1764 to 1770 was Colonel (since 1768 foreman) Bogdan Ivanovich Wasserman, who received the rank of major general in 1770 "for Bendery" and one of the 1st who became a Knight of the Order of St. George 4th class.

The regiment subsequently gave its seniority to the newly formed 70th Ryazhsky Infantry Regiment.

Sevsky Infantry Regiment

To the report submitted in 1732 by General Count Weisbach to the Military Collegium on the renaming of 20 landmilitsky regiments, a register of regiments was attached, which were supposed to have the names of Ukrainian cities. This register also mentioned the landmilitsky cavalry regiment, located in the city of Sevsk. In 1732, the personnel of the regiment was 1001 people, recruited from the recruits of the cities of Livna and Orel. It was formed simultaneously with Rylsky, Kursk and Belgorod. In 1775, the staff of the regiment was already 1229 people from the recruits of the cities of Kursk and Oboyan. Completely repeats the history of the above infantry regiments. He also leads his seniority from December 15, 1763, when the Sevsky regiment was formed among the foot regiments of the Ukrainian Corps, consisting of 2 battalions, each with 1 grenadier and 5 musketeer companies.
01/16/1769 - Sevsky Infantry Regiment.

He gave his seniority to the 34th Infantry Sevsky Count Kamensky Regiment. It is known from sources that in 1770 the commander of the regiment was Colonel David Magabeli. 

Stary Oskol Infantry Regiment

Formed as an equestrian landmilitsky on January 15, 1731. It is mentioned simultaneously with the Bryansk and Livensky regiments. Like the above regiments, it had two battalions. At the same time, the Novooskolsky regiment was formed, settled in Novy Oskol. Like the above regiments, on January 15, 1763, it was turned into foot regiments, and in 1770 it was assigned to field regiments. In 1770, the commander of the regiment was Colonel Pavlov. The regiment gave its seniority to the 114th Novotorzhsky Infantry Regiment.

Tambov Infantry Regiment

It was also formed as an equestrian landmilitsky on January 15, 1731, it is mentioned together with the Kozlovsky and Efremov regiments. It is known that in 1775 there were only 222 people from the recruits of the city of Tambov in the regiment. One of the battalions was settled at the Tambov fortress on the Buzova River (now Kharkov region), the other at the fortress of St. Peter. As well as the above regiments, in 1763 it was turned into foot regiments, and in 1770 it was assigned to field regiments.

In 1770, the commander of the regiment was Colonel Matthias Miller, commander of the central assault column, which moved into the breach on the Bendery fortress and who died one of the first to climb the ramparts of the fortress. From the battalions of the regiment, the 27th and 28th Jaeger regiments were subsequently formed.

Sumy Hussar Regiment

On June 27, 1651, the Sumy Sloboda Cherkassy Cossack Regiment was formed from the "Cherkas" who made up the population of the Sloboda-Ukrainian region and originated from Little Russian immigrants who fled from Polish oppression. In 1731, a regular company of 100 people was established under the regiment. 03/03/1765 - ordered the governor of the Sloboda-Ukrainian province, Prime Major of the Life Guards of the Izmailovsky regiment Shcherbinin in Sumy, to reorganize the regiment with the addition of ranks from the Black, Moldavian, Serbian and Georgian hussar regiments to the Sumy hussar regiment.

From the literature it is known that in 1769, taking part in the first Russian-Turkish war, the Sumy hussars under the command of Colonel T.I. Tutolmin distinguished themselves in the battle near Bendery, where, having lost only 20 people, they destroyed a large number of Turks and captured 4,000 prisoners and 600 horses. 

In 1770, the entire Russian army learned about the regiment. A detachment of Sumy hussars under the command of Second Major Dedevshin was surrounded by 10 thousand Tatars, but literally cut through their system, losing 177 people killed and 26 wounded. Having destroyed a large number of askers, including seven murzas, the hussars captured the enemy banner. This case, however, was far from the only feat. At the end of the war in 1773, the commander of the army, Count P.I. Panin, personally introduced the Sumy Hussar Regiment to Empress Catherine II. It was then that the affectionately respectful nickname "Sums daring" was assigned to the Sumy hussars. Subsequently, Ya.P. served in the fourth squadron of the regiment. Kulnev.

Izyum Hussar Regiment

On June 27, 1651, the Izyum Sloboda Cossack Regiment was formed from immigrants from Little Russia, who settled in settlements on the right bank of the Northern Donets and along the banks of the Izyumets River. The main purpose of the Sloboda regiments was to protect the southern borders of Russia. At the same time, the Slobozhans ran a household and lived in families. Since 1651, the seniority of the regiment has been going on.

Soon it began to be called Kharkov Sloboda, and since 1688 it regained its name again (Colonel Konstantin Donets-Zakharzhevsky). In 1662 and 1666, the Sloboda regiments repulsed the raids of the Crimean Tatars, and in 1668, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich awarded letters of commendation for loyalty and courage. In 1695 and 1698, the Izyumians recaptured a number of Tatar fortresses on the Danube and operated near Perekop. In 1733, the regular strength of the regiment was 800 Cossacks. In 1765, a new stage in the life of the regiment began, on March 3 it was renamed the Hussar (Colonel Zorich), with a staff of six squadrons in the amount of 1034 people (based on the approved report of the Military Commission “On the establishment of five field Hussar regiments from the Sloboda regiments, on recruiting and their content). In 1768, Field Marshal Count Rumyantsev recognized the Izyum regiment as the best in Little Russia. In 1770, the commander of the regiment was Lieutenant Colonel Akim Bedryaga.

Black and Yellow (Gold) Hussars

On December 24, 1751 and January 11, 1752, two hussar regiments called Pandursky (from the town of Pandur in Hungary) were formed by the colonel of the Austrian army Horvat. All regiments consisted of 20 companies. For settlement, they were assigned lands between the rivers Amelniki and Kavarlyk (tributaries of the Dnieper), which were ordered to be called New Serbia. In 1764, two Pandura regiments, together with the Novomirgorod garrison and Serbian hussars, were reorganized into three settled cavalry regiments: the Black and Yellow Hussars and the Yekaterinoslav Pikiner. The Yellow Hussars were subsequently disbanded on December 24, 1776, as was the Black Hussars, also known as the regiment of General Megulnov.

Bakhmutsky (Bakhmuchesky) hussar regiment

As mentioned above, in 1754 the Serbs Raiko Preradovich and Ivan Shevic formed 2 hussar regiments of 1 thousand people each, which in 1764 were merged into one - the Bakhmut hussar regiment. There were 16 mouths (settlements) in the regiment. The area inhabited by the settled regiments of Preradovich and Shevic was called Slavyanoserbia. It was not part of the province, but was directly subordinate to the Military Collegium. To organize the settlement, recruitment and maintenance of the settled hussar regiments, the Military Collegium established the Slavic-Serbian Commission in 1753. It was located in the city of Bakhmut, which was not part of Slavic Serbia. There was also the position of the head of Slavic Serbia, which was initially held by Raiko Depreradovich, and then by Ivan Shevic. The regiment, like the Yellow and Black regiments, was disbanded in 1776 in connection with the liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich and the creation of new settled regiments.

Lugansk Pike Regiment

As mentioned above, the regiment was created in 1764 from the disbanded Serbian Pandura regiments and the Bakhmut cavalry Cossack regiment, which consisted of Russians, Serbs, Greeks, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Moldavians, Turks, and so on, constituting the so-called Bakhmut, Moyak and Tor Cossacks . The regiment was settled along the Lugan in Slavic Serbia. Administratively, the Lugansk regiment was part of the Bakhmut province of the Novorossiysk province, along with the Bakhmut and Samara hussar regiments. For uniforms, yellow cloth and a black sash were used. Of the famous personalities in 1777, the regiment was commanded by Colonel M.I. Kutuzov. Subsequently, the Mariupol Light Horse Regiment was formed from this and the Poltava regiment in six squadrons.

Donetsk pike regiment

Formed in 1764 and settled over the Seversky Donets. It included 5 fortresses (shants) of the former Ukrainian line: Belevskaya, Praskoveyskaya, Petrovskaya, Kozlovskaya and Ryazhenaya. It also included 5 hundred annexed from Little Russia: Nekhvoroshchanskaya, Mayatskaya, Tsarichanskaya, Kitaygorodskaya and Orelskaya. Administratively, the regiment was part of the Ekaterininsky province of the Novorossiysk province, together with the Dnieper pike regiment and the settlements of Vodolag. Bilyovskaya fortress of the Donetsk regiment was at the same time the center of the Catherine's province. The Donetsk Regiment, in particular, included the Bilevskaya, Kozlovskaya, Ryazhskaya, Nekhvoroschanskaya, Mayatskaya, Kitaygorodskaya, Tsarichanskaya, Orlitskaya, Praskoveyskaya and Petrovskaya companies.

A quarter of each company was Fusiliers on foot. The rest are mounted pikemen armed with pikes, sabers and carbines. From the literature it is known that the regiment especially distinguished itself during the capture of the Bendery fortress in 1770.

For uniforms, blue cloth and a black sash were used. On December 24, 1776, the regiment was renamed Yekaterinoslav, in 1783 the regiment was disbanded, and the personnel went to replenish the Pavlograd Light Horse Regiment. 

Dnieper Pike Regiment

Created on June 9, 1764, settled along the Dnieper from the source of Samara to the border of the former New Serbia. It included 10 Little Russian hundreds of predominantly southern Poltava regiments: Starosenzharskaya, Novosenzharskaya, Belitskaya, Kobelyatskaya, Sokolskaya, Kishenskaya, Perevolochanskaya, Keleberdyanskaya, Kremenchugskaya and Vlasovskaya. Administratively, the regiment was part of the Ekaterininsky province of the Novorossiysk province, together with the Donetsk pike regiment and the settlements of Old and New Vodolagi.

The regiment was divided into 20 companies. The organization of the companies was the same as that of the Donetsk regiment. Former soldiers of the hussar regiments of Slavic Serbia also served in it. For uniforms, green cloth and a black sash were used. In 1783 the regiment was also disbanded.

Elisavetgrad Pike Regiment

Named after the fortress of St. Elisabeth (Elizabeth), founded on December 29, 1751 to protect New Serbia. Like the above regiments, this regiment was also formed in 1764, in accordance with the project for the establishment of the Novorossiysk Land Militia, to form a settled lancer regiment armed with sabers and pikes from the personnel of the Novoserbian companies - settlements (shants) of the Elisavetgrad region. It was deployed on the territory of the central part of the modern Kirovograd region and the eastern part of the modern Dnepropetrovsk region. It included 20 companies - settlements, of which 17 names are known: Murzinka, Bishkov, Ovnyansk, Kulakov, Chervonokamensk, Popelnasta, Orlinskaya, Kutsevolovka, Mishurin Rog, Dereevka, Yellow, Green, Verblyuzhka, Spasovka, Vershinokamensk, Novaya Adzhamka, Adzhamka. When wearing uniforms, he had an oblique instrument cloth and a yellow sash.

The settled regiment was disbanded in 1783, it was succeeded by the Elisavetgrad Light Horse Regiment, which became a hussar regiment in 1796 (since 1801, the Elisavetgrad Hussar Regiment).

Don Cossack Host - the most numerous of the Cossack troops of the Russian Empire.

The Don Cossack army has been the first in terms of seniority in the Cossack troops since January 3, 1570, when the Don Cossacks received the first royal letter from Tsar Ivan the Terrible. Since ancient times, the Don army has been divided: Cossacks "mounted" and "grassroots". Military holiday on October 14, the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos. The headquarters of the Don Cossack army was located in the city of Novocherkassk.

The Don army is located on the territory called the Don Army Region, which occupied the modern Rostov and Volgograd regions, the north of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation, as well as parts of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine.

The historical name is associated with the Don River (basin of the Sea of Azov).

Mirgorod Little Russian Regiment

The territory of the Mirgorod regiment (territory) began to be settled in the first quarter of the 17th century, and already in 1625 a Cossack regiment was formed with a regimental center in Lubny. The regiment was supposed to protect the possessions of the family of the Vishnevetsky princes in the Left-Bank Ukraine from the Crimean raids. In 1638, the regiment was disbanded, and hundreds were included in the Chigirinsky and Pereyaslavsky regiments. At the beginning of the Khmelnytsky uprising in 1648, the regiment was restored by the rebellious Cossacks. On October 16, 1649, after the Treaty of Zboriv, the regiment received official status in the Commonwealth. According to the register of 1649, there were 16 hundreds in the regiment. In 1654, after the Pereyaslav Rada, according to the sworn lists, 4792 people swore allegiance to the regiment.

In 1723, the regiment had 15 hundreds, which consisted of 454 foot and 4386 horse Cossacks. In 1782, the Mirgorod regiment was disbanded, and its territories became part of the Kyiv governorship. In 1770, the regiment was commanded by Colonel Alexander Bezborodko.

Gadyachsky (Galitsky) Little Russian regiment

The Hadyatsky (Gadyachsky) Regiment is a military-administrative unit of the Hetmanate with its capital in Gadyach. The regiment was founded in 1648, disbanded several times and finally abolished in 1782. 

Formed in 1648, the Hadiach Regiment was disbanded already in 1649 under the Zborov Treaty, hundreds of the regiment were transferred to the Poltava Regiment, and the Hadiach Starostvo was created on the territory of the regiment, owned by the hetman of the Zaporizhian Army.

• In 1658, the regiment was restored, but was subordinate to the Mirgorod colonels.
• In 1660, the Gadyach eldership was liquidated, and its territory was divided between the Mirgorod and Zenkovsky regiments.
• In 1672, the regimental center of the Zenkovsky regiment was moved to Gadyach and the former name was returned to the regiment.

According to the revision of 1764, the regiment consisted of: 21 hundreds, 11 cities, 982 villages and farms. There were 21,986 elected Cossacks in the regiment. In 1770, the commander of the regiment was Colonel Anton Krzhizhanovsky and the appointed colonel (acting commander) Colonel Andrei Gorlenko.

Starodubovsky (Starodubsky) Little Russian Regiment

An administrative-territorial and military unit of the Hetmanate that existed from the middle of the 17th century until 1781.

Regimental city - Starodub (now the regional center of the Bryansk region). The Starodubsky regiment was the most extensive of all ten regiments of Little Russia. It included the districts of two ancient centers of the Seversk land - Starodub and Novgorod-Seversky, each of which during the period of feudal fragmentation was the center of an independent principality. After the formation of the Russian and Lithuanian states, the Seversk land, located on their borders, drew upon itself the claim of both states.

Initially, the Starodubsky regiment consisted of 10 hundreds (regimental Starodubskaya, Novgorod-Severskaya, Sheptakovskaya, Pogarskaya, Pochepskaya, Mglinskaya, Drokovskaya, Popovogorskaya, Bobovitskaya and Topalskaya), later the hundredth division changed.

In 1763, two judicial districts were created on the territory of the regiment - Starodubsky and Pogarsky, and in 1766 three commissariats - Starodubsky, Topalsky and Novgorod-Seversky. According to the revision of 1764, the regiment had 12 hundreds, 7050 elected Cossacks, 18107 assistants and 147629 Commonwealth.

By the time the regiment was disbanded (1781), it included the following hundreds: two regimental Starodubsky, two Pochepsky, Novomestskaya, Topalskaya, Mglinskaya, Baklanskaya, Pogarskaya, Novgorodskaya (Novgorod-Severskaya) and Sheptakovskaya. At that moment, there were 4 cities, 3 towns and 1118 other settlements on the territory of the Starodub regiment.

In 1770, the regiment was temporarily commanded by Colonel Mikhailo Miklashevsky.

Chernihiv Little Russian Regiment

Territorial-military-administrative unit of the Zaporozhye Host with its capital in Chernihiv, established in 1648. Abolished in 1781. The Chernihiv regiment was founded in the spring of 1648 during the Khmelnytsky uprising. Legally, the territory and composition of the Chernihiv regiment were formalized on October 16, 1649 according to the Zborovsky register. The regiment consisted of 997 Cossacks in 8 hundred. According to the Zborovsky register, the regiment included the territories of the abolished Borznyansky and Sosnitsky regiments. After the Pereyaslav Rada of 1654, a significant number of hundreds of regiments were transferred to the Nezhinsky regiment. Since 1659, new hundreds began to form in the regiment, and by 1672 the regiment consisted of 16 hundreds. According to the revision of 1764, the regiment had 9,838 elected Cossacks, 19,810 assistants and 101,556 souls of other population in 18 hundreds. The regiment was abolished by the decree of Empress Catherine II of September 27, 1781, and its territories became part of the Chernigov governorship. In 1770, the regiment was commanded by Colonel Peter Miloradovich.

Lubensky Little Russian Regiment

Administrative-territorial and military unit of the Hetmanate in the XVII-XVIII centuries, one of the 10 administrative-territorial Cossack regiments of the Hetmanate. The regimental center is the city of Lubny. The regiment was created in 1648. After the Zborovsky treaty of 1649, he was attached to the Mirgorod regiment. Rebuilt in 1658. The number of hundreds in a regiment varied from 13 in 1658 to 23 in the 18th century. In 1658, it included 7 hundreds of Mirgorodsky, 4 hundreds of Kropivnyansky and 2 hundreds of Poltava regiments.

According to the list of 1723, the regiment had 2687 foot and 3968 horse Cossacks.

As of 1781, the regiment included 23 hundreds: two regimental Lubensky, two Pyryatinsky, two Lokhvitsky, two Senchansky, Chernousskaya, Yangshipolskaya, Glinskaya, Romenskaya, Khmelevskaya, Smelyanskaya, Konstantinovskaya, Kurinskaya, Gorodiskaya, Snitinskaya, Lukomskaya, Goroshinskaya, Zhovninskaya, Chigirin-Dubrovskaya, Yablunivskaya. At that time, 21 towns and 1609 villages were located on the territory of the regiment. In connection with the liquidation of the regimental system in Ukraine in 1781, it ceased to exist. Its territory became part of the Kyiv and Chernigov governorships.

Nezhinsky Little Russian Regiment

The Nizhyn Regiment is an administrative and military unit of the City Host of the Zaporizhzhya Poland (registered) and the Zaporizhzhya Host (Hetmanate) of Russia, with the regiment's capital in the city of Nizhyn since 1649.

Other major cities of the Cherkasy regiment included Priluki, Glukhov and Baturyn. The last two at different times were the capitals of the Zaporizhzhya army (Hetmanate).

The Nezhinsky regiment was founded in 1648, in 1653 it expanded due to the addition of the neighboring Novgorod-Seversky regiment to it. During this period of time, the regiment consisted of ten hundred Cherkasy.

At the numerous requests of the Cossacks, in Moscow, it was decided by the Zemsky Sobor, on October 1, 1653, to accept the Zaporizhzhya Army with all the regiments into the citizenship of the Russian Tsar. In 1663, the newly formed Starodubsky regiment separated from the Nezhinsky regiment.

In Little Russia, with the judicial reform of 1763, the settled regiments were divided into povets (districts) according to court cases. The Nezhinsky regiment was divided into three districts. In each povet, a zemstvo court (povet zemstvo court) was established, located in the povet city.

In 1782, according to the decree of Catherine II, the regiment, as an administrative unit, was disbanded and included in the Chernihiv governorship. And from hundreds of regiments on June 28, 1783, the Nezhinsky cavalry regiment of the Little Russian cavalry was formed.

Companion Little Russian Regiment

"Okhotnitsky" (sociable and Serdyutsky) Cossack regiments existed in Little Russia in the 17th-18th centuries. The official date of formation of the company regiments is August 30, 1668. People from the Severu region (“sevryuks”), Poles, Moldavians and Serbs mainly went to serve in the companion regiments. The original purpose of the companions was only to carry out police duties, they also began to be used in the suppression of popular unrest. The companions often exceeded their power, carrying out riots and even murders, about which petitions regularly wrote to the Russian Tsar. These regiments were recruited by the hetman himself from “eager people” (mercenaries), did not have a specific territory, were named after the names of the colonels and were maintained at the expense of the combined arms, and then the state treasury.

In addition to the sociable regiments, Seryut regiments also appeared in Little Russia. Serdyuks (from Turkish sürtük "guide, spy", or angry, evil). The Serdyutsky infantry regiments were also maintained at the expense of the hetman's treasury and were the hetman's personal security guard.

Under Hetman Mazepa, by 1709 the number of such regiments had grown to 10 - 5 companions and 5 Serdyuts. There was also a regiment of the hetman's personal guard - "the company of the court banners." It was Mazepa who began to use these regiments as military ones.

From the middle of the XVIII century. the Don administration divided its wards into three uluses and several hundred, while the leader of the ulus was called the ataman, and the centurion was called the centurion. The Don Kalmyks, depending on the combined arms mobilization, were obliged to complete individual hundreds led by their owners (atamans) and replenish the composition of the Cossack regiments.  
Kalmyks appeared within Russia at the beginning of the 17th century. They migrated from the Dzungar Khanate and formed the Kalmyk Khanate in the lower reaches of the Volga River, which was strengthened under Ayuka Khan. Archival documents testify that the Kalmyks were called to the Don by local Cossacks to jointly fight the Crimean Tatars.