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

Musketeers and Other Traditional Forces 59 vitor of Bryansk, tried to flee to Poland-Lithuania; he was caught, tortured, and han ...

60 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 B. A. Kali tin of Vladimir, who stated that in the course of no less than 68 years' service he had ...

Musketeers and Other Traditional Forces 61 classes and served for as long as they were needed. Some, the 'state pishcha/'niki', ...

62 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 By contrast in 1612, at the height of the Troubles, a rank-and-file musketeer could expect only 2 ...

Musketeers and Other Traditional Forces 63 was situated to the expanding southern border, the greater the role played by soldier ...

64 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 privileged status in Muscovy.) Some stre/'tsy were employed fighting fires in the capital-an impor ...

Musketeers and Other Traditional Forces 6S musketeers' behaviour in 1648 evidently made the government more efficiency- consciou ...

66 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 In June 1670, during the revolt ofSten'ka Razin (1667-71), somestrertsyat Astrakhan· went over to ...

Musketeers and Other Traditional Forces 67 its detailed catalogue of prohibitions and threats; officers are given no positive in ...

68 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 Theodore's reign power lay with the Miloslavsky clan, related to the dynasty by Tsar Alexis's firs ...

Musketeers and Other Traditional Forces^69 that the court factions were uniting against them. On 1.5 May they launched a three-d ...

(^70) Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 particular sought to embarrass and discredit the Old Believer delegation, and the meeting broke ...

Musketeers and Other Traditional Forces 71 measures taken were mild in comparison with those of Alexis-or of Peter I. Sofia wish ...

(^72) Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 Nevertheless Peter suspected the entire corps of disloyalty. Their chief, F. L. Shaklovitiy, li ...

Musketeers and Other Traditional Forces 73 The stref'tsy rising lived on in the popular imagination. A folk song portrays a Coss ...

(^74) Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 high risk was involved: at moments of social tension these men might be temp- ted to flee back ...

Musketeers and Other Traditional Forces 75 exiguousness of their plots will have stimulated holders to augment them by bringing ...

(^76) Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 1470s, when Aristotele Fieravanti (1415120-86), the Italian architect and military engineer, ca ...

Musketeers and Other Traditional Forces 77 remained administratively independent of the War College, much as the Pushkarskiy pri ...

78 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 Abdullah), who came from Astrakhan'.^93 Kaibulla's military career from 1554 to 1565 is well docum ...