Regiment of Afanasy Pashkov in 1655: composition and recruitment before expedition to Dauria from Yeniseisk (with list of names)
https://doi.org/10.21285/2415-8739-2023-1-91-114
Abstract
The article is based on unpublished documents of Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts. It describes the recruitment of the first regiment under the command of the former Yeniseisk governor Afanasy Pashkov which was officially sent for accession of Transbaikalia and the Amur region (Dauria) territories to Russia in 1655. This study is focused on the procedure of selecting and providing warriors before sending to Dauria. War orders came to Siberian towns nonuniformly during June - September of 1655th. The recruitment of troops in 11 Siberian towns took from 4 to 20 days. The largest number of recruited warriors was in Tobolsk. First of all unmarried middle-aged men who had a high reputation were selected. They should form the “backbone” of regular forces of the fortress garrisons that control the new territory. However, some married warriors were recruited in locations when the candidates did not meet the requirements. The transfer of detachments to Yeniseisk and their preparation for the campaign took about 1 year from the moment the government order was sent. Pashkov repeatedly reported to Moscow that 300 warriors allocated by the government for the campaign were not enough as well as ammunition and weapons for such a long campaign. In addition, the article details the mechanism of how the government planned to provide the regiment with food on the way through the Ilimsk and Tugir fortresses. As part of this work, for the first time in historical literature, the article provides the warriors’ lists of names sent to Dauria.
Keywords
troops,
Cossacks,
Streltsy,
Afanasy Pashkov,
Yeniseisk,
Transbaikalia,
Dauria,
history,
Siberia,
XVII century,
genealogy
About the Authors
E. A. Bagrin
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Egor A. Bagrin, Cand. Sci. (History), leading researcher of the Scientific and Methodological Department
3, Senatskaya Square, Saint-Petersburg 190000
V. I. Trukhin
The Petropavlovsk Foundation for Socially-Oriented Projects and Programmes Support
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vladimir I. Trukhin, scientific consultant
13, Rubtsov Lane, Moscow 105082
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