in the campaign “The Crimean War and the Suppression of the "Kyiv Cossack Movement" (1853–1856)”
The mass enrollment of peasants into the militia: "The trigger was the publication, during the Crimean War of 1853–1856, of Emperor Nicholas I's manifesto providing for the creation of a mobile state militia"[1] - the manifesto and levy decrees of 29 January 1855 (Nos. 28.991–28.993); the Kyiv governorate was not on the list of governorates called up, and the peasants took the empire-wide summons as addressed to themselves[2].