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

Birth of the Military Intelligentsia 241 49 generals (26.5 per cent) were of non-Russian stock.^58 During the 1730s Anna !vanovn ...

242 Gentlemen to Officers beginning of her reign 41.3 per cent of 402 staff officers and above in active service whose names hav ...

Birth of the Military Intelligentsia 243 Ritterakademien in Prussia and other European states. Mi.lnnich's role in its foundatio ...

(^244) Gentlemen to Officers went to war in 1812 as a humble lieutenant and was greeted cordially on his first assignment by for ...

Birth of the Military Intelligentsia 245 Alexander I could be interpreted as heralding a new age of righteousness, or why ymmg o ...

246 Gentlemen to Officers which were renamed after them. The abolition of territorial designations for regiments^78 was a revers ...

Birth of the Military Intelligentsia 247 This move from passive to active opposition may be said to mark the begin- ning of Russ ...

(^248) Gentlemen to Officers substance to this view-the ageing field-marshal did not hide his contempt for the new army regulati ...

Birth of the Military Intelligentsia 249 Among the plotters were the generals in command of the Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky re ...

11 THE PRAETORIAN OPTION ON his accession Alexander I introduced a number of measures designed to heal ·the breach that had begu ...

The Praetorian Option 251 Those officers who were able to maintain contact with kinsmen or friends in the capita! cities shared ...

(^252) Gentlemen to Officers The schools also stimulated a professional spirit among their more success- ful pupils, who after t ...

The Praetorian Option 253 with death and devastation on an unprecedented scale-on Russian soil, invaded from the west for the fi ...

254 Gentlemen to Officers those who tried to relieve suffering, and contempt for those on either side who committed deliberate a ...

The Praetorian Option 255 experience augmented their malaise about the direction of affairs at home ,..,ithcut offering a satisf ...

(^256) Gentlemen to Officers Yakushkin to the effect that 'a year in Germany, followed by several months in Paris, could not but ...

The Praetorian Option 257 the excessive influence wielded by Alexander's favourite, A. A. Arakcheyev. The lattci's icmaikable un ...

258 Genl/emen to Officers Mikhail) and Nikita, son of Mikhail Nikitich.^41 The significance of these apparently obscure genealog ...

The Praetorian Option 259 a ruse de guerre, designed to throw enemies off the scent and to assuage the misgivings of neophytes. ...

260 Gentlemen to Officers sorry to see him go (as were his men, especially once he had been replaced by the notorious Shvarts: s ...