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strelitz Hist.|ˈstrɛlɪts|
Forms: sing. 7 strelits, 7, 9 strelitz, often incorrectly as pl.; pl. 7 strelsey, strelsies, strelitzi, 7, 9 strelitzes.
[a. Russian strieˈlets, archer (pl. strieltsy), agent-n. f. strielyati to shoot with the bow, f. striela arrow.]
A soldier belonging to a body of Russian troops composed of infantry raised by the Tsar Ivan the Terrible (1533–84) and abolished by Peter the Great in 1682. Also attrib.
1603R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. 155, 5000 attend aboute the citty of Mosco, or where the emperour shall abide, and two thousande, Stremaney Strelsey, or gunners at the stirroppe, aboute his owne person. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 7 Our Musketiers, or Strelits. Ibid. 78 The Strelitz, who are spying up and down. a1670[S. Collins] Pres. St. Russia (1671) 111 With these he [the Czar] pays his Strelsies or Janzaries. 1799W. Tooke View Russian Emp. II. 471 Without mentioning the strelitzes. 1833R. Pinkerton Russia 300 The officers and common soldiers of the Strelitzi. 1841Penny Cycl. XX. 259/1 The first acts of his [sc. Ivan IV, 1533–84] reign were the institution of the corps of Strelitzes (archers), the first regular army of Russia. 1841Motley Corr. (1889) I. iv. 112 Peter the Great disbanded and annihilated the Strelitz or Russian janissaries. 1904F. Whishaw Tiger of Muscovy xxxi, A Strelitz soldier lay sleeping at the door leading to the corridor... To the Strelitz the Tsar said: ‘Go quickly,..and follow the Boyar Nagoy.’ |