F "During four months of each year, they do duty with troops of a different arm from that to which they belong. One month of the first year is devoted to surveying, and one month of the second to reconnoissance. Immediately after the final examination the students receive appointments in the Staff Corps, if there are vacancies, in the order of merit. If there are no vacancies, the student returns to his regiment until a vacancy occurs. If he is a second lieutenant, he is promoted to the rank of first lieutenant; if a first lieutenant, after three years' service, he is made a captain." MILITARY EDUCATION IN RUSSIA. "BUT little information respecting the military schools of Russia has been collected. "1. There are twenty-two military colleges for the guards and line, containing more than seven thousand cadets. "2. One page corps, of one hundred and sixty scholars. "3. One school of ensigns for the guards, with two hundred students. "4. One artillery school, with one hundred and twenty students. "5. One engineer school, with one hundred and twenty or one hundred and thirty students. Making an aggregate of over eight thousand military students. "There is, besides, an imperial staff school, into which twenty or twenty-five officers, possessing certain qualifications, enter each year, after an examination. The term of instruction is two years. "Upon graduation, the most distinguished scholar of each class is promoted at once to the staff as captain; the next two receive rewards of extra pay and medals. At the end of a year, after leaving the school, all the graduates are attached to the staff, but are not at once promoted in it." THE END. |