Streletsky prikaz

Streltsy patrol at Ilyinsky Gate in Old Moscow, painting by Andrei Ryabushkin (1897)

The Streletsky prikaz (Russian: Стрелецкий приказ), sometimes translated as the Streltsy Department, was one of the main governmental bodies (a prikaz) in Russia during the 16th and 17th centuries which administered the streltsy.[1]

  1. ^ Langer, Lawrence N. (11 December 2001). Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia. Scarecrow Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-8108-6618-8.