The ''Streletsky prikaz'' (), sometimes translated as the Streltsy Department, was one of the main governmental bodies (a ''

prikaz A prikaz (; , plural: ) was an administrative, judicial, territorial, or executive bureaucracy , office functioning on behalf of palace, civil, military, or church authorities in the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Tsardom of Russia from the 15th ...

'') in

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during the 16th and 17th centuries which administered the

streltsy The streltsy (, ; , ) were the units of Russian firearm infantry from the 16th century to the early 18th century and also a social stratum, from which personnel for streltsy troops were traditionally recruited. They are also collectively kno ...

History

The first reference to the ''Streletsky prikaz'' appears in 1571, but in the mid-1550s, it already existed under the name of ''Streletskaya izba'' (). The ''Streletsky prikaz'' was in charge of the

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and municipal streltsy, their lands and other properties, disbursement of their

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and bread allowances, and their cases in court. In 1672–1683, it also collected the taxes of the streltsy. After the streltsy uprising in 1698, the ''Streletsky prikaz'' was engaged in regular administrative and managerial matters. In 1701, it was transformed into the ''Prikaz zemskikh del'' (), inheriting the functions of the ''

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'' police department in Moscow.

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