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MUSCOVITE ARMED FORCES IN 16TH CENTURY

Rank

1514 Orsha

Ivan IV

1552 Kazan

1562 Mozhaisk

1578 Livonia

End 16th Cent

Upper service class

Moscow ranks

212 princes

Middle service class

Dvoriane & deti boyarski

17,500

9,000

9,200

25,000

Vybornye

Regiment

Garrison

Foreigners

4,000

4,000

Officers

Lower service class

Streltsi

12,000

20,000

Moscow

2,000

7-10,000

Mounted

Foot

Provincial

6,050

13,15000

Cossacks

6,000

13,119

Artillery

3,000

Allies - Tatars, Cherkassy, Mordvin, etc.

10,000

5,854

6,461

10,000

New formation regiments

Lancers

not created until middle of next century

Hussars

"" ""

Cavalrymen

"" ""

Dragoons

"" ""

Soldiers

"" ""

Slaves

17,500

9,000

50,000 (25,000)

Other

2,165 townsmen

1,109 service-men of Novgorod and Iurev

7,850 peasants

Total

30-40,000

70,000

50,000

33,400

39,681

109,000 (110,000)

RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES IN FIRST HALF OF 17TH CENTURY

RANK

1625

1630

1632

1632 Shein's army at Smolensk

1634

1651

1653

Upper service class

Moscow ranks

2642

2769

2,697

Middle service class

Dvoriane, deti boyarski

24,791

24,714

11,688

39,408

Vybornye

Regimental

15,850

Garrison

11,583

Foreigners

3,744

2,707

Officers

Lower service class

Streltsi

20,539

33,775

44,486

Moscow

4,000

6,173

Mounted

2,697

1,812

Foot

Provincial

17,842

1,612

22,972

Cossacks

c. 11,000

11,471

2,215

21,124

Artillery

4,244

4,245

Allies, Tatars, Cherkassi, Mordvins, etc.

c. 20,000

1,667

2,371

9,113

New formation regiments

Lancers

6,118

Hussars

Cavalrymen

2,400

2,000

Dragoons

400

8,107

Soldiers

3,323

10,962

Slaves

Other

Total

95,000

104,714 + Nogai Tatars

34,588

133,210

RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES IN SECOND HALF OF 17TH CENTURY

RANK

1660

Sheremetev in Ukraine

1663

1667-68 Sevesk regiments

1668-69 Belgorod regiments

1672

1679 Cherkasskii army

1680 Golitsyn's army

1681

1687, First Crimea campaign

1689, Second Crimea campaign

Upper service class

Moscow ranks

2,700

2,963

2,918

3,669

6,127

3,366

Middle service class

Dvoriane, deti boyarski

4,400

21,850

37,859

9,712

8,712

Vybornye

3,309

9,753

307

Regimental

9,526

6,354

7,250 + ?

10,819

4,208 + 362

Garrison

5,072

Foreigners

Officers

224 + 410

413

Lower service class

Streltsi

1,000

65,000

19,000

653

17,010

+ ?

23,533

55,000

Moscow

18,800

20,048

19,259

11,262

9,270

Mounted

Foot

Provincial

13,125

30,000

Cossacks

2,822

+ 783 officers

counted with Cherkassy

370

14,868 + 50,000

15,505

Artillery

6,191

7,000

Allies, Tatars, Cherkassi, Mordvins, etc.

20,000 +

2,966

2,063

6,497

12,613

10,530

14,865

14,471

New formation regiments

Lancers

1,158 + 50

1,093

6 regt

totaled with cavalry

247

Hussars

405 + 21

totaled with cav.

Cavalrymen

4,100

18,455 + 919

8,838

12,000

42,906

34,614

30,472

26,096

29,216

Dragoons

4,000

4,504 + 108

427

Soldiers

3,000

24,958 + 1,262

9,545 + 525

4,600

31,133

23,490 +

43,204

61,288

49,363

49,189

Slaves

10,000

Other

38,497

11,830

1,964

1,737

Total

40,000

98,150 + streltzi

48,233

61,362 + 2,467

106,938

129,300

214,600

112,902

112,066