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

Marking Time 341 The only bright spot was the presence of several dozen. volunteer female nurses, who toiled heroically, cheerin ...

342 Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 which he offered a vivid portrayal of front-line conditions, and also hinted cautiously at ...

Markin}!. Time 343 replaced him by his favourite, I. F. Paskevich, who tightened controls over the exiles but also made use of t ...

late eighteenth century was not sustained. At Poltava in the 1820s most Jfficers amused themselves by hunting, playing cards or ...

MarkinK Time 345 formal training while in the regiment, and the little knowledge they had came from their pre-service schooling. ...

346 Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 I. 0. Sukhozanet, was 'severe, demanding, and pernickety'; he missed no opportunity to disp ...

an icon which bore the names of their teachers. In a typical passing-out address Grand Duke Michael declared that 'the inseparab ...

348 Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 opposition, stimulated by the revolt in November 1830 and then by the incorpor- ation in Ru ...

Marking Time 349 ings, 33 were officers and 20 of them were in his own unit, the Moscow regi- ment, which had been prominent in ...

(^350) Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 self-confidence, and high standard of military organization. A spirit of chivalry that t ...

15 AN AGE OF REFORM THE changes brought about in Russian society during the reign of Alexander II (1855-81) spelled the end of t ...

352 Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 This explains why the 'Great Reforms' (as they rather grandiloquently came to be called) we ...

An Age of Reform 353 who volunteered for the militia in the hope of winning their liberty. The authorities suppressed the distur ...

354 Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 military expenditure.^13 The armed forces bore their share of the savings made in the inter ...

An Age of Reform 355 ideas, and once peace had been concluded a purge got under way. Senior generals who held sinecures were obl ...

356 Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 on curbing military expenditure.^26 His appointment in^1856 was apparently designed to appe ...

An Age of Reform 357 note that historically the okruga were somewhat reminiscent of the pre-Petrine razryady. The idea of buildi ...

358 Towards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 He was probably attracted as much by Chernyshevsky's professional experi- ence as by his po ...

An Age of Reform 359 was taken up vigorously by the liberal emigre Aleksandr Herzen, and copies ot Kolokol ('The Bell') reached ...

360 T_owards a Modern Army, 1825-1874 from Lithuania or White Russia, 15 per cent from the Ukraine or the south- west, and 8 per ...