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STRELITZ (Strjeltsi)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 1007 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: STE-SUS
STRELITZ (Strjeltsi) , a
body
  of
Russian
 
household
  troops originally raised by the tsar Ivan the Terrible in the middle of the 16th
century
 . They numbered 40,000 to 50,000 infantry, and formed the greater
part
  of the
Russian
  armies in the warsof the 16th and 17th centuries. They were a fierce and ill-disciplined force, individually brave and cruel in war, and almost ungovernable in peace. Their mutinies were frequent and dangerous, and at last, in 1682, an unusually serious out-break led Peter the
Great
  to compass the abolition of the force. The
Strelitz
  were gradually
drawn
  to the western frontier of
Russia
 , and in 1698 they rose in mutiny for the last time. Crushed in battle by Peter's general,
Patrick
  Gordon, they ceased to exist as a military force, and about 2000 of them who fell into the hands of the tsar were barbarously tortured and put to death.


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