CHAPTER VII 



THE CADRES 



Marching Orders Brigade Stations Composition of the Brigades Remounts 

 General Palitzyne General Strukof Passive Resistance. 



ON the appointed ist September I reported myself 

 to General Palitzyne, who received me kindly and 

 told me that I would have first of all to make a tour through 

 the remount depots, or cadres as they are called, and 

 on my return to Petersburg would have to stay for the 

 remainder of the six months at the Cavalry Officers' Riding 

 School in that city. He also said that as General Strukof 

 was the head of the Remount Department, I would have 

 to go to him and receive his orders. 



I may here explain that a cadre in peace time corresponds 

 to a regiment of reserve cavalry. It is divided into three 

 atdelenie (German, Abtheilungen = divisions), and has thirteen 

 officers, including a colonel, a lieutenant-colonel, an adjutant 

 and a paymaster. Each atdelenie is commanded by a 

 captain, who has a second captain (Russian, Stab-rotmistr) 

 and subalterns under him. The cadres are grouped into 

 brigades, which consist of either two or three cadres, 

 and each brigade is commanded by a general who has 

 an A.D.C. and other staff officers to help him. Each 

 atdelenie supplies the horses that are required each year 

 for one particular regiment of cavalry, which sends an 

 officer to the cadre with the supposed object of learning 



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