Borodino 1812 (part 5): Russian 7th infantry division for AOE in 20mm

 

The 7th infantry division of General Peter Kapsevich is represented here in AOE term by the Moskow and Libava regiments. The only  divisional Jäger regiment present at Borodino was the the 36th hence only three stands for the Jägers instead of the usual six. The figures are the usual Zvezda for the grenadiers, Revell Prussian for the musketeers and Esci for the Jägers. 

The command stands of each regiment (brigade in AOE terms) are from the StreletsR Russian and Prussian chiefs of staff. Some Revell musketeers were also converted as flag bearers. 

The command divisional stand is made of two Prussian officers of the Italeri box of British and Prussian staff. Much has been said about these Italeri boxes. They started in great shape with a fantastic box of French Staff that includes ADCs, Generals, Chasseur bodyguards, Roustam and Napoleon itself. After leaving us salivating, Italeri ruined everything and the two next staff boxes only offering us half a dozen new figures each, very beautiful though and that includes Wellington, and plenty of figures from other already existing sets. Its an obvious disappointment as the new figures becomes more expensive than metal ones. So in a way to take the maximum advantage of the Prussian staff figures I painted them as Russians as their officers also used this peaked cap and the same uniform cut (the Prussians copied the Russian uniform in 1813). If you forget that Kutusov was much older and fat you can use the mounted figure as this famous general even by painting its cap white as he used one at Borodino. 

Next: Russian Guard Infantry for Borodino.