This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...administration was brought into accordance with the regiments of the line. When the militiamen retired after fifteen years' service, they returned into 0dnodv01tchestvo, the class of odnodvortsi. Up till 1764 enlistment took place once in five years; but in that year the calls seem to have been more ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...administration was brought into accordance with the regiments of the line. When the militiamen retired after fifteen years' service, they returned into 0dnodv01tchestvo, the class of odnodvortsi. Up till 1764 enlistment took place once in five years; but in that year the calls seem to have been more frequent, for the odnodvortsi complain of enlistment being made twice in one year." The numbers drawn for recruits became also more numerous, for the odnodvortsi complained that one recruit was, in at least one place, called from every twenty-five souls.' At the third census, in 1762, there were 510,000 0ti'rt0ti'u0rtsi.5 Gradually the distinction between State peasantry in general and odnodvortsi was broken down, excepting so far as concerned the peculiarities of their military service. In 1769 the regiments of the Ukraine were wholly absorbed in the regular troops of the line, and the special military obligations of the odnodvortsi ceased to exist.6 The extension of the frontiers by the annexation of the Crimea rendered the existence of a special border force unnecessary, and by the removal of the frontier to the north coast of the Black Sea the situation of the odnodvortsi settlements, considered as frontier posts, became anomalous, and the military obligations of the odnodvortsi came to be equalized with those of the other peasants of the Treasury." The household tax had been imposed upon the odnod-uortsi, as upon peasants of all classes, on its introduction in the seventeenth century,8 and when the taxation of peasants was readjusted in the time of Peter the Great, the odnodvortsi and the other peasants remained upon an equal footing. Under the Ukase of 2nd September 1724 the principle of " mutual guarantee...
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