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

Peter's Soldiers 99 During the next two years troops of both formations, and others besides, were committed to battle against th ...

]()() The Warrior Tsar, 1689-1725 8,000 men, most of them gentry cavalry, and on 18 June soundly defeated the rebels near the Vo ...

Peter's Soldiers IOI detailing the men's crimes-a symbolic gesture which plainly indicates that the repression was as much an ac ...

102 The Warrior Tsar, 1689-1725 has co be seen in the context of the Russian state's continuous effort to subdue and integrate t ...

Peter's Soldiers 103 did not expect the conflict to be so prolonged; nor could he have foreseen the way his measures would trans ...

(^104) The Warrior Tsar, 1689-1725 crippled recruits who had been submitted in lieu of men who were physically fit. Proprietors ...

Peter's Soldiers 105 well have to bear muskets as humble infantrymen, at least in the first years of their careers. During the e ...

106 The Warrior Tsar, 1689-1725 However, the authorities' efforts to adjust obligations to resources did not extend very far. Pr ...

Peter's Soldiers 107 areas or social categories. The most unusual of these pressed into army uniform prie~t" ~nt:i other rlergy ...

108 The Warrior Tsar, 1689-1725 case where l, 100 recruits had been kept in chains or wooden stocks by order of the governor of ...

Peter's Soldiers 109 soldiers were to share a bed or sleeping place, taking turns; they were forbidden to leave the premises aft ...

110 The Warrior Tsar, 1689-1725 led to manifold abuses and even to mutiny, as in 1682. It was to prove a vexing problem for the ...

Peter's Soldiers 111 set up in 170 I under T. N. Streshnev, was formally responsible for the new regiments, but it had only a ru ...

ll2 The Warrior Tsar, 1689-1725 medical supplies.^94 Garrison troops received two-thirds, or usually half, as much as men in the ...

Peter's Soldiers 113 taken against those who did so. Foodstuffs often served as a substitute for pay. Referring to some soldiers ...

114 The Warrior Tsar, 1689-1725 For the moment it is sufficient to notP th~t non-receipt cf pay and lack of food were major caus ...

Peter's Soldiers 115 th~y ~hall not b~ attrat.:ted to flee the service'; the other t\llC men '.\'ere tc be knouted and sent to f ...

116 The Warrior Tsar, 1689-1725 dealt with some of the abuses which caused recruits to abscond: the failure of their proprietors ...

Peter's Soldiers 117 from the civilian population and probably improved the servicemen's morale'.^139 They will have attributed ...

r 0 THE NOBLE SERVITOR AND THE PETRINE STATE \ 'ANY man who gets his bread for free, even if only a small amouqt, will not serve ...