Following are major historians' or writers' estimates of the sizes of the opposing armies in the battle of Borodino, with the years in which those estimates were made.[1]
| Source | Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 190,000 | 132,000 | 1824 | ||
| 130,000 | 120,000 | 1824 | ||
| 133,819 | 130,000 | 1825 | ||
| 120,000 | 133,500 | 1827 | ||
| 130,000 | 120,000 | 1830s | ||
| 160,000 | 128,000 | 1839 | ||
| 130,000 | 120,800 | 1859 | ||
| 140,000 | 160,000 | 1860 | ||
| Burton | 130,000 | 120,800 | 1914 | |
| 130,665 | 119,300 | 1956 | ||
| 130,000 | 127,800 | 1962 | ||
| Grünwald | 130,000 | 120,000 | 1963 | |
| 135,000 | 126,000 | 1968 | ||
| 156,000 | 120,800 | 1966 | ||
| 120,000 | 133,000 | 1969 | ||
| 130,000 | 120,800 | 1971 | ||
| 133,000 | 125,000 | 1972 | ||
| 127,000 | 120,000 | 1981 | ||
| 128,000 | 106,000 | 1985 | ||
| 134,000 | 154,800 | 1988 | ||
| Vasilyev | 130,000 | 155,200 | 1997 | |
| 133,000 | 120,800 | 1998 | ||
| 127,000 | 154,000 | 1999 | ||
| Hourtoulle | 115,000 | 140,000 | 2000 | |
| 135,000 | 150,000 | 2004 |