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

The Nohle Serviwr and the Petrine State burden, le<lding to what Milyukov provocatively called, in the title of one sec tion ...

140 The Warrior Tsar, 1689-1725 slaves (kho/opy) and other dependants hitherto exempt. As Klyuchevsky showed, this was a major c ...

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7 RECRUITMENT AND SERVICE IN THE RANKS FoR a century and more after the death of the tsar-reformer the armed force~ constituted ...

144 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 whose title and rank give him preference over that of any previous calling'.^2 Something of ...

Recruitment and Service in the Ranks 145 was the excessive scale and incidence of the operation; and this in turn was due to Rus ...

146 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 weak post-Petrine regime committed itself to a programme of demilitarization, was the number ...

Recruitment and Service in the Ranks 147 Let us look at these questions in turn a little more closely. In principle every able-b ...

148 The Imperial Century, J 725-1825 such settlers enjoyed temporary freedom from the levy-partly because they had to provide fo ...

Recruitment and Service in the Ranks 149 land owners too, sought to extend the coverage to include those less well off, that is, ...

150 The Imperial Century. 1725-1825 whether peasants or landowners, had every interest in trying to pass off men whose age or ph ...

Recruitment and Service in the Ranks 151 difficult to resolve. The legislators tried, for example, to prescribe limits beyond wh ...

152 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 rnubles.^39 In fact the purchase price had already been indirectly determined by officialdom ...

Recruitment and Service in the Ranks 153 another proprietor or community. This practice was due not merely to 'gentry greed' but ...

154 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 their exact age, or wish to state it accurately, and no documentary proof of it was demanded ...

Recruitment and Service in the Ranks 155 Petrine fashion: one in ten was to be hanged and the rest knouted and sent to forced la ...

156 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 the time they were writing military service was at least limited to a fixed term, normally 2 ...

Recruitment and Service in the Ranks 157 introduced by a secret decree in 1738.^73 It evidently replaced the branding ordered by ...

158 The Imperial Century, 1725-1825 orders not to drill them extensively, to employ them on work details, or other- wise to oppr ...