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

The Army Takes to the Countryside 281 In 1784 military settlers accounted for a sizeable proportion of rhe popula- tion of Yekat ...

282 The Military Settlements authorities could give proper supervision and care to their children and to vi:-t~r~n~. F.~rh ~rmy- ...

The Army Takes to the Countryside 283 'with a veritable network of Gruzinos, hundreds of villages which the army would make as n ...

28-l The Alilitary Settlements <:rn which it was based.^35 Some crirics expected it to end in bloody catastrophe. In 1820 a c ...

The Army Takes to the Countryside 285 and principal characteristics. Later we shall discuss the reaction of the men concerned an ...

286 The Military Settlements hoped to derive from the fact that the local people, as he thought, 'still retained tht:ir martial ...

The Army Takes to the Countryside 287 own. The other troops were either active soldiers or reservists. In peacetime they lodged ...

probably appreciated the improved sanitation: farm animals, for instance, were kept in separate sheds. On the ocher hand, their ...

The Army Takes to the Countryside had to be sold according to contracts drawn up in advance and vetted by ti military authoritie ...

290 The Military Settlements dfe..:t'.^68 This was not a wholly impartial view, but it contained a good deal of truth. One reaso ...

The Army Takes to the Countryside 291 All children were classified as 'military cantonists' and became legally the property of t ...

292 The iWi/itary Settlements .:nd of Alexander's reign there were signs that the favourite was losing his grip. Hr: attempted t ...

The Army Takes to the Countryside 29 regional commander, ;'\lajor-General Yefimovich. \Vhen the case came t1 Arakcheyev's notice ...

294 The Alilitary Seulements CO\ered by 'savings', but this was false reckoning since it involved simply a book-keeping transfer ...

The Army Takes to the Countryside 29 'to make the native inhabitants and the soldiers a single whole'^101 created ; strange form ...

13 RESISTANCE, REPRESSION, AND REFORM THE soldiers and peasants on whom the government sought to confer the economic and social ...

Resistance, Repression, and Reform 2 next year Arakcheyev again responded with relative moderation. j Neverthel• the incidents l ...

298 The Military Settlements farmers refused to reap hay for their unit's horses because they needed to work on their own plots ...

Resistance, Repression, and Reform stricken response, which took the spectacular form of disbanding the regirr overnight. The al ...

300 The Military Settlements win the soldiers' confidence by behaving in exemplary fashion, and then to spread their ideas in ca ...