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== History of Scouting in Russia == | == History of Scouting in Russia == | ||
=== 1908 to 1922 === | === 1908 to 1922 === | ||
In 1908, [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Baden-Powell]]'s book ''Scouting for Boys'' came out in Russia by the order of [[Tsar]] Nicholas II. It was called ''Young Scout'' (Юный Разведчик, ''Yuny Razvedchik''). On April 30 1909, a young officer, Colonel [[Oleg Pantyukhov]], organized the first Russian Scout troop ''Beaver'' (Бобр, ''Bobr'') in [[Pavlovsk]], a town near [[Tsarskoye Selo]]. In 1910, Baden-Powell visited Nicholas II in Tsarskoye Selo and they had a very pleasant conversation, as the Tsar remembered it. In 1914, Pantyukhov established a | In 1908, [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Baden-Powell]]'s book ''Scouting for Boys'' came out in Russia by the order of [[Tsar]] Nicholas II. It was called ''Young Scout'' (Юный Разведчик, ''Yuny Razvedchik''). On April 30 1909, a young officer, Colonel [[Oleg Pantyukhov]], organized the first Russian Scout troop ''Beaver'' (Бобр, ''Bobr'') in [[Pavlovsk]], a town near [[Tsarskoye Selo]]. In 1910, Baden-Powell visited Nicholas II in Tsarskoye Selo and they had a very pleasant conversation, as the Tsar remembered it. In 1914, Pantyukhov established a society called ''Russian Scout'' (Русский Скаут, ''Russkiy Skaut''). The first Russian Scout campfire was lit in the woods of Pavlovsk Park in Tsarskoye Selo. A Russian Scout song exists to remember this event. Scouting spread rapidly across Russia and into Siberia, and by 1916, there were about 50,000 Scouts in Russia. Nicholas' son [[Tsarevich]] [[Tsarevich Alexei of Russia|Aleksei]] was a Scout himself. | ||
With the advent of communism after the October Revolution of 1917, and during the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922, most of the Scoutmasters and many Scouts fought in the ranks of the [[White Army]] and interventionists against the Red Army. | With the advent of communism after the October Revolution of 1917, and during the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922, most of the Scoutmasters and many Scouts fought in the ranks of the [[White Army]] and interventionists against the Red Army. | ||