The Gypsies and Military Service in the Russian Empire in the Second Half of the 18th - First Half of the 19th Century
Journal: RUDN Journal of Russian History
Year: 2020

The complication of the national composition of the population due to new ethnic groups as well as incorporation of new territories into the Russian Empire were ones of the consequences of an active foreign policy in the XVIII - XIX century. The Poles, Jews, Gypsies, Finns, and many others needed to be incorporated into existing state, public, social institutions. Most of the activities carried out against, for example, the Jews or Gypsies, aimed at their violent adaptation. The tsarist administ