Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army (Russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. Rússkaya imperátorskaya ármiya) was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Army consisted of more than 900,000 regular soldiers and nearly 250,000 irregulars (mostly Cossacks).
| Imperial Russian Army Русская императорская армия | |
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 Cockade of the Imperial Russian Army | |
| Active | 1721–1917 |
| Country |  Russian Empire |
| Allegiance |  Tsar of Russia |
| Type | Army |
| Size | 12 – 15,000,000 during World War I 4,200,000 during the Russian Civil War |
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| Engagements | Great Northern War Russo-Turkish Wars Russo-Swedish Wars Russo-Persian Wars Russo-Polish Wars Seven Years' War Napoleonic Wars Caucasian War Crimean War Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Revolution |
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| Commander-in-chief | Russian Emperor |
| Notable commanders | Peter the Great Boris Sheremetev Alexander Menshikov Pyotr Rumyantsev Alexander Suvorov Grigory Potemkin Mikhail Kutuzov Pyotr Bagration Aleksey Yermolov Mikhail Skobelev Aleksei Brusilov |
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 Grand Duchy of Moscow | ||||||
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 Tsardom of Russia | ||||||
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 Russian Empire | ||||||
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 Russian Republic | ||||||
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 Soviet Union | ||||||
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 Russian Federation | ||||||
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