| 22 Military Schools, with | 326 | teachers and | 10,000 | scholars. |
| 3 Lower or Element. Artillery Schools, | 22 | “ | 166 | “ |
| 1 Topographers’ School, with | 13 | “ | 140 | “ |
| 1 Medico-Chirurgical Academy, with Military Hospitals, | 35 | “ | 978 | “ |
| 3 Veterinary Schools, | 1,020 | “ | ||
| 12,304 | “ |
The Military Schools[*] are of an elementary and technological character, and are intended to supersede a class of schools known as the Cantonist Schools.
The experience of the Crimean War demonstrated to the world, the wise forecast of the Russian government in providing for the thorough scientific and practical training of the officers of her great armies as was confessed by the “London Times,” in the bitter disappointments of the English people with their own officers.
[THE IMPERIAL STAFF SCHOOL AT ST. PETERSBURG.]
[Extracts from Governmental Regulations.]
[I. GENERAL DIRECTIONS.]
A Military Academy, the highest institution of its class, is founded in St. Petersburg, to educate Officers for the service of the General Staff, and to promote the diffusion of Military Science in general. Its special functions are—
1. To prepare Officers for the special service of the General Staff.
2. To furnish to a certain number of Officers from the Artillery and Chief Engineer School a course of Grand Tactics and Strategy, on the same principles and to the same extent as it is furnished to the Officers preparing for the Service of the General Staff.