Troitsk IR

Inhaber
Unknown


Unit History
In 1734 the Austrians asked for an Auxiliary force to be sent to the Rhine. The Auxiliary force included this regiment, the 2nd Moscow (No. 12), and Kievski (No. 14) and marched in September 1734 to Silesia under the command of Count Lassy. In early 1735, the force was split with half remaining in Silesia waiting further orders and the other half marching through Bohemia and Ober-Pfalz to arrive in June along the Rhine where they joined the Allied army at Phillipsburg. This regiment was part of the Russian auxiliary corps on the Rhine in the summer of 1735.
In the Seven Years War the unit was present at Gross-Jagersdorf and Zorndorf.
At Gross-Jagersdorf, August 30, 1757, the unit was part of Rumianzow’s brigade in the first division under Fermor. The brigade had three regiments, Troitsk (No. 15), Voronezh (No. 24), and Novgorod (No. 18), each of which supplied three battalions. The brigade formed part of the Russian counterattack into Norkittner Wood which helped push the Prussian battalions fighting deep in the Wood to retreat in confusion.
At Zorndorf, August 25, 1758, the regiment was brigaded with the Kazan (No. 54) under the command of Major-General Kokoschkin. Both units were relatively unscathed in the battle and were used at provide a rallying point for Fermor at the end of the battle along with four other regiments. The four regiments were the 4th Grenadiers (No. 8), Smolensk (No. 21), Kexholm (No. 1), and Ladoga (No. 48).
The regiment performed as a regular unit.

Comments
To give the Russians some more support, I finally broke down and added to the lead pile. The green flag with the red flames was a common pattern found on roughly forty percent of the Russian infantry regiments. Unit painted in 1991.

Sources
Flag: Osprey’s Russian Army of the Seven Years War (1) (Men-at-Arms 297)
Text: D. Meuser, Battle of Gross Jagersdorf, Seven Years War Association Journal Vol. X No.2
D. Meuser, Battle of Kay, Seven Years War Association Journal Vol. X No.2
F. Mueller, 1998 Frederick the Great Battlefield Tour, Seven Years War Association Journal Vol. X No.3
Osprey’s Zorndorf 1758 (Campaign 125)