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

The Noble Servitor and His World 39 personal retainers governed his share of the spoils.'^5 The lure of booty was a powerful inc ...

40 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 Discharge was considered a privilege, to be granted only for serious reasons; if they were medical ...

The Noble Servitor and His World 41 the fact that gentry servitors might well be forced into forms of military service far more ...

42 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 Herberstein wrote that the Grand Prince fixed annual payments for all ser- vitors when they were m ...

The Noble Servitor and His World 43 comm unity. Historians have assumed that servitors' allocations were rounded up similarly, a ...

44 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 such sources, since their own laborious procedures made it hard for them to keep up with the chang ...

The Noble Servitor and His World 45 Most servitors were desperately short of capital and knowhow, and thus unable to contribute ...

(^46) Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 such rights and duties. A holder's younger brothers, sons, and nephews would normally be 'ascri ...

The Noble Servitor and His World 47 in Moscow district classified as 'waste' doubled, from 54 to I08.^4 M During and after the T ...

48 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 serfdom, their self-interested behaviour was itself the product of Russia's cultural isolation and ...

The Noble Servitor and His World 49 the natural economy, made it hard to secure a regular income from their lands. Under the Rom ...

(^50) Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 pleas, and there is supporting evidence: at Bryansk in 1621 starvation among the local gentry r ...

The Noble Servitor and His World 51 improved security situation on the southern border after the construction of the Belgorod an ...

52 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 What then of the widespread absenteeism among deti boyarskiye: is this not evidence of alienation ...

The Noble Servitor and His World 53 new-model forces which contained a high proportion of foreign officers; some of these had as ...

(^54) Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 behind a fairly far-reaching 'reform programme' put forward during the reign of the adolescent ...

The Noble Servitor and His World SS less abolishing, the nobles' obligation to serve the state, and their position in the offici ...

3 MUSKETEERS AND OTHER TRADITIONAL FORCES \ THE principal task of the underprivileged segments of the population was to provide ...

Musketeers and Other Traditional Forces 57 should defend their hearths in an emergency, whether or not they were called on to do ...

58 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 masters were supposed to provide them according to the 1556 service code. Non-privileged elements ...