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

Moscow's Men on Horseback^19 after M. I. Vorotynsky, a leading commander who twice fell into the tsar's disfavour, had undertake ...

20 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 the Tatars attacked from the south. Servitors with land in the region hurried •-llVlllt: -. --... ...

Moscow's Men on Horseback 21 went a remarkable expansion which kept pace with the realm's territorial ~I UWLll. .1 ~I a. UUllU . ...

22 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 Fig. I. Structure of the Ranking System in Muscovite Russia. This diagram represents schematically ...

Moscow's Men on Horseback 23 functions were enumerated according to rank, from members of the dynasty down to junior gentrymen ( ...

4 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 nsmen. '35 If a man were appointed to a position that he and other rnem- !rs of his clan considered ...

Moscow's Men on Horseback 25 Both in making such promotions and in settling precedence disputes the criterion adopted was oteche ...

26 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 monarchical power was weakened.^40 Thus in 1578/9 I. F. Mstislavsky and I. P. Shuysky, t~o promine ...

Moscow's Men on Horseback 27 that 'no litigant, however firm he believed his precedence claims to be, could ever be ctrtain of t ...

28 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 Precedence ranking, as we shall see, could be abolished in^1682 without pro- voking any noticeable ...

Moscow's Men on Horseback 29 the size of the levy on the southern border at 20,000 men. The combat unit was the 'hundred' (sotny ...

30 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 an effort to associate the local elite more actively with Moscow's policies. As such it was certai ...

Moscow's Men on Horseback 31 its inner workings, such as the electoral act; but this rule, as one might expect, was difficult to ...

32 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 to them; the record-keeping system was cumbersome, and the data in local service registers (desyat ...

Moscow's Men on Horseback 33 assessor's decision; so too did wealth, measured by the amount of land owned or held and the number ...

34 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 vidual's worth. This flexibility was beneficial in so far as it gave servitors an incentive to do ...

Moscow's Men on Horseback 35 'The dominant bureaucratic organization in early modern Russia',^82 the Razryad still awaits its hi ...

36 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 archive.^88 In these departments and their provincial extensions there toiled a vast army of clerk ...

Moscow's Men on Horseback 37 more plainly, tribute-from the population, within the limits established by local custom. The voivo ...

2 THE NOBLE SERVITOR AND HIS WORLD 'THE Muscovite army', states the invaluable Herberstein, 'always pitches camp in open field. ...