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STRELITZ (Strjeltsi)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1007 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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STRELITZ (Strjeltsi)

STRELITZ (Strjeltsi) , a See also:

BODY

body of See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household troops originally raised by the See also:

TSAR, or CZAR

tsar See also:

IVAN (JOHN)

Ivan the Terrible in the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. They numbered 40,000 to 50,000 See also:

INFANTRY

infantry, and formed the greater See also:

PART

part of the Russian armies in the warsof the 16th and 17th centuries. They were a fierce and See also:

ILL

ill-disciplined force, individually brave and cruel in See also:

war, and almost ungovernable in See also:

peace. Their mutinies were frequent and dangerous, and at last, in 1682, an unusually serious out-break led See also:

Peter the See also:

GREAT

Great to See also:

COMPASS (Fr. corn pas, ultimately from Lat. cum, with, and passus, step)

compass the abolition of the force. The Strelitz were gradually See also:

DRAWN

drawn to the western frontier of See also:

Russia, and in 1698 they See also:

rose in See also:

mutiny for the last See also:

time. Crushed in See also:

BATTLE

battle by Peter's See also:

general, See also:

Patrick See also:

Gordon, they ceased to exist as a military force, and about 2000 of them who See also:

fell into the hands of the tsar were barbarously tortured and put to See also:

DEATH

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