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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...
- 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...
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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...
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converted into
cantonists (Kantonisten). The term "recruitment"
thereafter applied to the
hiring of
foreign mercenaries only;
cantonists were said to be...
- 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...
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garrison a
territory Kanton (disambiguation)
Cantone (disambiguation)
Cantonist, sons of
Russian conscripts who were
educated in
special canton schools...
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forced ****imilation of Jews, from 1827
conscripted Jewish children as
Cantonists in
military institutions in the east
aiming to
compel them to convert...
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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...
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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...
