Napoleon Series Archive 2010

Mittau, Mitau, Mitawa, Mintauja or Jelgava?

While translating Weil, I've gotten in the habit of disambiguating place names using Wikipedia. In looking at the "Mittau Dragoons" I was surprised to find there wasn't a Russian term given. It is Mittau in French, Mitau in German, Mitawa in Polish, Mintauja in Lithuanian and Jelgava to the Latvians who currently occupy this area. Without getting too obsessive about this, how did the Russian refer their regiment?

v/r Greg

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