Initially, they recruited children of the landless boyars and streltsy, volunteers, Cossacks and others.
During the Smolensk War of 1632–1634, six more regular regiments, one reiter regiment, and a dragoon regiment were formed. In 1631, the Russians created two regular regiments in Moscow. There were different kinds of regiments, such as the regulars, dragoons, and reiters. The regiments of the new order, or regiments of the foreign order ( Полки нового строя or Полки иноземного строя, Polki novovo (inozemnovo) stroya), was the Russian term that was used to describe military units that were formed in the Tsardom of Russia in the 17th century according to the Western European military standards. In times of war the armed forces were augmented by peasants.
These were originally raised by Ivan the Terrible originally an effective force, they had become highly unreliable and undisciplined.
Russian tsars before Peter the Great maintained professional hereditary musketeer corps known as streltsy. 1 Precursors: Regiments of the New Order.
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