The Role of Credit Receipt in the Execution of Recruitment Service (Based on the Example of Vitebsk Governorate of the Russian Empire 1794–1861)
Journal: Izvestia of Smolensk State University
Year: 2025

The article is devoted to the use of recruitment receipts by the population of the Vitebsk governorate of the Russian Empire at the end of the 18th - mid-19th centuries. The existence of these receipts was closely related to the responsibility of the population to send recruits to the armed forces. The purpose of the work is to identify the role of creditable recruitment receipts in the implementation of conscription service in the Russian Empire. The work is based mainly on the study of governm