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 | | The people several times revolted against the favorites of the tsar, and were subdued only by cruel executions, in which the streltzya class of citizens and merchants rendering hereditary military servicesupported the tsar. |
 | | Afterwards appeared the raskol or nonconformist movement, and in 1648, when the news spread that Stenka Razin was advancing on Moscow to settle his accounts with the boyars, the populace was kept from rising only by severe repressive measures and by the defeat of the invader. |
 | | Later on, the streltzy themselves engaged in a series of rebellions, which led the youthful Peter the Great to suppress them (1698) amid streams of blood. |
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