Soldiers of the Tsar. Army and Society in Russia, 1462-1874 - John L. Keep

The Struggle for Survival 179 lower, it was ostensibly run by a committee elected at the start of each four- month accounting pe ...

practice wa5 evidently reintroduced under Mi.innich, but later in the century mits were allocated a separate sum to meet the cos ...

Table I Gross and Ne1 Annual Pay of Private~. 1730s Type of unit Annual pa~ (grm')" Annual pay (net) trouble' and kopeckq I tnla ...

182 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 even worse, the lowest rate being only 3. 75 roubles ( 1769).^42 On the other hand in 1784, ...

The Struggle for Survival 183 one region to another. In the 1740s, for example, the average for all of Euro- pean Russia was 0.9 ...

~4 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 Table 2 )ur.:hasing Power of Privates' Pay, 17 I 1-18 I I (selected years and arms of service ...

The Struggle for Survival 185 latter was sometimes kept in disused gunpowder barrels and was unfit to drink. By the time the thi ...

(^186) The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 The ration was ample in carbohydrates but deficient in vitamins. One col- ond. passing th ...

Tht• S!ruggle for Sun"il'a/ 187 system had come inro exisren,·e: H'Sl'rn· ma)<!a1inc' in prain-)lrtl\in1o1 rc,:i''"' under rh ...

188 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 personal bitterness became embroiled with bureaucratic intrigue. Some reformers wanted to ci ...

The Struggle jor Survival 189 Deficiencies in clothing were less obvious than lack of food, for commanders paid a lot of attenti ...

190 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 been an exceptional situation, since in such newly colonized regions civilian tradesmen were ...

The Struggle for Survival 191 townspeople, who resented the obligation to provide such accommodation (known as postoy).^98 Proba ...

192 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 rather than with the peasant milieu from which they stemmed. Suvorov's 'regimental instructi ...

The Struggle for Survival 193 The few well-qualified doctors, most of whom were foreigners, preferred to stay in the capital, wh ...

194 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 surgeons.^115 Vyazemsky complained that regimental field hospitals were allocated a mere 104 ...

The Struggle for Survival 19: and surgeons, or roughly four to five times more for double the number ol men.^124 The army medica ...

196 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 1813, the troops generally enjoyed more hygienic conditions, but battle casualties were prop ...

The Struggle for Survival 197 Losses were particularly high among recruits-proportions of one third to one half were frequently ...

198 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 one household to another' much as their predecessors had done in the Muscovite era, and many ...