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caption_attribution_description: Русский: Солдаты танцуют в бараках English: Soldiers dancing in barracks. Painted by Frédéric de Haenen Identifier: russia00dobsrich (find matches) Title: Russia; Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Dobson, George Grove, Henry M Stewart, Hugh, 1884-1934 Haenen, F. de Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel Publisher: London, A. and C. Black Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: first sight this seems wonderfully little to givein exchange for all these years of free tuition, boardand lodging. However, when the young officer, atthe age of twenty-six or twenty-seven, has put inhis six years of service, and he is free to leave thearmy, the question comes up. What is he to do ?He has received a special education, which fits himonly to be an officer&#160;; he is worse educated than hiscompeers who studied in an ordinary school, as somuch of his time was taken up with military sub-jects&#160;; in a word, the difficulties of starting afreshin civil life are so innumerable that nearly all stayon as officers. Thus the supply of officers isguaranteed. However, these youngsters, who arethus dedicated by their parents to be future officers,undoubtedly, as they arrive at years of discretion,are not all keen to be officers. Their wishes werenever consulted, and undoubtedly many of themwould never have wished to enter the army. How-ever, there they are, nolens volcns, and there, as I Text Appearing After Image: SOLUIKIIS UANCINC. IN BAURACKS CUSTOMS AND INSTITUTIONS 265 have described before, they find they ha\T to remain.So they stay on and serve. Tliey have no exami-nations to pass, promotion comes reguhirly everyfour years, orders and honours follow continually,so they stay on. But between staying on and takingan active interest in your work is a great step; and itstands to reason that a man who finds himself in apost which supports him, though he does not likeit, and cannot see his way to procure congenial work,must stick to what he has&#160;; but he is not likely totrouble himself much, or to be keen in studying theprofession in which he takes no interest whatever.Under this system of recruiting officers it stands toreason there must be a large proportion of theofficers who come under this category. The Russian Army—though, naturally, nearly allof its officers are gentry by birth—does not pre-clude the private soldier from rising and distin-guishing himself. SkobelefFs father started as Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The Trepak is a traditional Russian and Ukrainian folk dance from the Slobozhan region of Ukraine and Russia settled primarily by descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and settlers from Central Russia and Southern Russia.
  The dance is a brisk allegro in time in a major key. Accompaniment is usually on two alternating chords; dominant and tonic. The tropak differs from the better known Hopak in chordal use and also in that the tempo gradually speeds up throughout the dance.
  The Trepak was one of the traditional instrumental dances played by blind itinerant musicians called kobzars on their banduras and kobzas. It was also one of the dances often included in the repertoire of village violinists in Eastern Ukraine.
  One of its best known representations is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Trepak from the ballet The Nutcracker. The dance music was also used in the last movement of his Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35. The third of Modest Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death is named "Trepak".
context_section_description: The Trepak (Russian: Трeпак; Ukrainian: Трoпак) is a traditional Russian and Ukrainian folk dance from the Slobozhan region of Ukraine and Russia (around the cities of Kharkiv and Belgorod) settled primarily by descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and settlers from Central Russia and Southern Russia. 
  The dance is a brisk allegro in  time in a major key. Accompaniment is usually on two alternating chords; dominant and tonic. The tropak differs from the better known Hopak in chordal use and also in that the tempo gradually speeds up throughout the dance.
  The Trepak was one of the traditional instrumental dances played by blind itinerant musicians called kobzars on their banduras and kobzas. It was also one of the dances often included in the repertoire of village violinists in Eastern Ukraine.
  One of its best known representations is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Trepak (also known as the Russian Dance) from the ballet The Nutcracker. The dance music was also used in the last movement of his Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35. The third of Modest Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death is named "Trepak".
caption: Russian soldiers dancing in barracks. Painting by Frédéric de Haenen [fr], 1913.
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