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

Musketeers and Other Traditional Forces 79 often reclassified as musketeers or serving Cossacks; finally, the bulk of the popula ...

4 THE NEW-MODEL ARMY AND SOME \ QUESTIONS OF COST \ THE presence of Polish soldiers in Moscow's sacred Kremijn in 1611-12 was hu ...

New-Model Army and Questions of Cost 81 linear tactics, which called for strict disciplinary constraints. It also meant substitu ...

82 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 sixteenth century men had been recruited according to the amount of land held by owners in various ...

New-Model Army and Questions of Cost 83 physically fit; they were to bring picks, spades, axes, and as a rule firearms as we11.1 ...

84 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 Soldiers and cavalrymen received an annual payment in cash and grain, on a scale which in theory a ...

New-Model Army and Questions of Cost SS tunates petitioned the tsar: 'We, thy slaves, served thee, Great Sovereign, each year in ...

86 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 looked on service in the infantry as demeaning. When cavalry units were set up two years later the ...

New-Model Army and Questions of Cost 87 officers imposed; they will also have resented the tsar's heavy reliance on them in time ...

88 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 Seredonin on the basis of Russian documents. R. Hellie accepts this estimate,^45 but some present- ...

New-Model Army and Questions of Cost 4 service Cossacks 5 new-model forces: infantry 6 new-model forces: cavalry 14,991 78,994 3 ...

90 Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 and material resources, and slowed its economic development. Hellie offers the intriguing comment ...

New-Model Army and Questions of Cost 91 receipts). Such levies, usually amounting to one-tenth and sometimes even one-fifth of a ...

(^92) Muscovite Roots, 1462-1689 not buy much in the way of military security, since the quality of Muscovite Russia's vast arme ...

II THE WARRIOR TSAR, 1689-1725 ...

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5 PETER'S SOLDIERS FROM the last decade of the seventeenth century to the third decade of the eighteenth Russian history is over ...

96 The Warrior Tsar, I 689-I^725 prison ( 1718) after tortures which his father personally authorized. The cruel streak in Peter ...

Peter's Soldiers 97 on the Petrine empire, rather than Britain or the Netherlands (important thou~h thev were for commercial and ...

98 The Warrior Tsar, I 689-I 725 The musketeers were not in themselves a serious threat to Peter's power, as was shown by their ...