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- Cantonist schools during the 18th and early 19th centuries
- Cantonism and ethnic minorities
- Jews
- Strains within the Jewish community
- Training and pressures to convert
- Other
- In the army
- Literary references
- Abolition and results of cantonist policy
- Statistics
- See also
- Military training of children
- Extra burdens on the Jews
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
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Cantonists (; more properly: , "military cantonists") were underage sons of conscripts in the Russian Empire. From 1721 on they were educated in special "cantonist schools" () for future military service (the schools were called garrison schools in the 18th century). The cantonist schools and the cantonist system were eventually abolished in 1857, following public and international criticism and the Russian defeat in the Crimean War.
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