Figure 1.--This boy was a cadet at a Russian military academy, I think about 2000. Click on the image to see another cadet. I am not sure what "CBY" on the epaulettes mean.
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Figure 1.--This boy was a cadet at a Russian military academy, I think about 2000. Click on the image to see another cadet. I am not sure what "CBY" on the epaulettes mean. |
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We have found a few references to Tsarist-era military schools, but we do not yet know much about them. One of the earliest European military schools as we now know them was founded in Russia. Peter the Great fomded a miliary academy in 1698. We believe that this was the first Russian military school. We do not have, however, any detailed information about that school. This subject is somewhat difficult to research in the photographic record because as best we understand, Russian secondary schools had military-styled warning. This in images we have found we believe they are regular school uniforms and not military schools. We are not sure if the actual military schools had destinctive uniforms. We do not yet have any information on Soviet military acadamies. We do know that there was compulsory military training of boys in the old Soviet schools. This was in regular schools, not just military schools. Compulsory military training fell into abeyance following the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, President Putin reportedly wants to bring it back in order put to some backbone into "wayward" Russian youth. Modern Russia does have military acadamies, but we know nothing about them.
We have found a few references to Tsarist-era military schools, but we do not yet know much about them. One of the earliest European military schools as we now know them was founded in Russia. Peter the Great fomded a miliary academy in 1698. We believe that this was the first Russian military school. We do not have, however, any detailed information about that school. Another source notes a military school founded in 1732, but again we have no detailed information. This subject is somewhat difficult to research in the photographic record because as best we understand, Russian secondary schools had military-styled warning. This in images we have found we believe they are regular school uniforms and not military schools. We notice quite a number of portraits of Russian boys wearing these school uniforms. We at first thought they were military acadany cadets, but we now realize that they are regular students and that their school just had a cadey-style uniform. We are not sure if the actual military schools had destinctive uniforms.
We do not yet have any information on Soviet military acadamies. We do know that there was compulsory military training of boys in the old Soviet schools. This was in regular schools, not just military schools.
Compulsory military training fell into abeyance following the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, President Putin reportedly wants to bring it back in order put to some backbone into "wayward" Russian youth. Hopefully our Russian readers will provide us more information. HBC is not sure, but we believe that these military caps were only issued to boys at Soviet military schools. Boys in the Young Pioneers or attending civilian schools were not issued such caps. A HBC reader had sent this image of a cadet in a post-Soviet military school. He is not a boy in a cadet program in an ordinary schoolboy, but a boy in a full-time military academy. These boys or their parents have chosen a military asademy becaise of an interest in a military career. However, instead of imbibing a stodgy diet of Marxism-Leninism he will now be regaled with patriotic tales of holy mother Russia. The image of the military in the post-Soviet era is far different than that it enjoyed during the Communist Soviet era. Our reader reports, "The point is that he is a cadet in a modern Russian military academy at a time when many Russian boys have become disenchanted with the army and conscription of young men is generally unpopular."
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