Cantonists (Russian: кантонисты; more properly: военные кантонисты, "military cantonists") were underage sons of conscripts in the Russian Empire. From...

(sometimes as young as eight) to fill a quota of Jews required to enter the cantonist schools, in preparation for service in the Russian Army, in the situations...

many of them were forcibly conscripted into Cantonist schools from the age of 12, while being a Cantonist did not count into the time of military service...

garrison a territory Kanton (disambiguation) Cantone (disambiguation) Cantonist, sons of Russian conscripts who were educated in special canton schools...

twelve, they would be placed for their six-year military education in cantonist schools. They were then required to serve in the Imperial Russian army...

converted into cantonists (Kantonisten). The term "recruitment" thereafter applied to the hiring of foreign mercenaries only; cantonists were said to be...

ballet dancer Alexander Friedmann (who was a son of a baptized Jewish cantonist) and the pianist Ludmila Ignatievna Voyachek (who was a daughter of the...

forced assimilation of Jews, from 1827 conscripted Jewish children as Cantonists in military institutions in the east aiming to compel them to convert...

Tashkent Suvorov Military School (under the MVD) Nakhimov Naval School Cantonist Harriet F. Scott and William F. Scott, Russian Military Directory 2004...

Nicholas I of Russia in 1827 conscripted Jews under 18 years of age into the cantonist schools for a 25-year military service in order to promote baptism. Policy...

between 1827 and 1857 over 30,000 children were placed in the so-called Cantonist schools, where they were pressured to convert. "Many children were smuggled...

century who didn't convert to Christianity. Drafted as a 17-year-old cantonist, Tsam served in Tomsk, Siberia. Tsam became an officer in 1873 (his fellow...

com/articles/1131-alexander-ii-nikolaievich-emperor-of-russia Domnitch, Larry. The Cantonists: the Jewish children’s army of the Tsar Devora Publishing; Jerusalem;New...

Trans-Siberian Railway, and his mother was a dentist. His grandfather was a cantonist who had been drafted from Libava (today Liepāja), Latvia, and who settled...

single gold standard. Since 1827, Jewish minors were conscripted into the cantonist schools for a 25-year military service. Policy towards Jews was liberalised...

amanat (mountain hostage) at the age of seven. He entered a military cantonist school, where Akhriev studied from 1857 to 1862. From 1862 to 1868, he...

in Telšiai in the Russian Empire (now in Lithuania). His father was a Cantonist. Son of Pinkhos (Faddey) Cyon and his wife Sarah; he had an elder brother...

Shmuel Asher. At the age of 13, Trumpeldor's father was kidnapped as a Cantonist and forced into service in the Russian Imperial Army, where he served...

dance, named tsam (Цам) in Mongolian Herzl Yankl Tsam (1835–1915), Jewish cantonist in the Russian Empire Eastern Macedonia Army Section (Tmima Stratias Anatolikis...

conscripts. There is even an NGO called Get Lost for Russian shirkers. Cantonists Dedovshchina Get Lost (organisation) "Russia raises the maximum age of...

born to David Osipovich Miliband and his wife. Her ancestor Mikhl was a cantonist in Tallinn, while other ancestors lived at Warsaw. She graduated from...

institute is located in the same building as the original city's school of cantonists that was built in Kyiv in 1839. In 1865 on decree of the Russian Emperor...

(военно-сиротские отделения) which in turn were transformed into Cantonist schools. Cantonist An article in Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian) Хазин О...

Kharkiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to a Jewish family with Cantonist roots. His father, Ilya Stockman, was a mining engineer and a World War...

This allowed the so-called Jewish 'Nicholas soldiers' (often former cantonists) and their descendants, First Guild merchants, artisans, and Jews with...

in 1865 allowed the so-called Jewish "Nicholas soldiers" (often former cantonists) and their descendants, First Guild merchants, artisans, and Jews with...

converted to Christianity by the Russian army. These soldiers known as Cantonists were taken away from the Jewish community to other villages. Schneersohn...

Ben-Zian Skurnik and Sarah Skurnik. He was a descendant of one of the oldest cantonist Jewish families. Skurnik completed student matriculation in 1927 and became...

first Jews to arrive were nineteenth-century Russian soldiers (known as cantonists) who stayed in Finland after their military service ended. The two synagogues...

circumcision in a synagogue. His father Abram Veniaminovich Voronov was a former cantonist and a distiller; his mother was Rachel-Esther Lipsky. At the age of 18...