RACIAL ELEMENTS OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY.
Probably tho Russian army is the most heterogeneous in the whole world so far as its ethnology is concerned. From the information on the point just issued by the Russian Statistical Department we Iflurn that, of the 227,906 recruits lovied in 1885, the racial composition was as follows: Russians, 169,052; Poles, 17,212; Bulgarians, 40G; Tcliccks, 12 ; Lithuanians, 5,800 ; Letts, 3,424 ; Greeks, 155 ; Moldavians, 2,3-50 ; French,!; Germans, 3,572: Armenians, 142; Bohemians, 39 ; Georgians, 3; Jews, 10,011; Karehans, 30a ; Tchoud", 20 ; Esthonians, 2,604 ; Laps, 1 ; Moravians, 1,707 ; Cheremii■uans, 704 ; Votiaks, 841 ; Zyriaus, 282 ; Permians, 68: Voguls, 5: Chuvaehis, 1,520; Tartars, 4,508 ; Bashkirs, 3,017; and about 100 belonging to three other races or tribes, In all, then, tho Russian army comprises 32 different racial, or at least tribal, elements ; among which it is noteworthy neither Ossetians nor Circassians are represented, so far at least as these recruits are concerned.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2492, 30 June 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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152RACIAL ELEMENTS OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2492, 30 June 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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