[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Germans drafted in Russian army

[Mauricio Norenberg]

My great grandfather had to serve Russian Army before come to Brazil.I'm
wondering if have some archive about Russian Army?

Regards

2009/5/18 Jane Wilkens <wilke013 at umn.edu>

My great grandfather emigrated from Volhynia in about 1896, taking a
> ship in May of that year.  I'm not 100% sure where he was living but
> my grandmother was born in the village of Michailoska in Kreiz
> Zhitomir in 1894.  According to family stories, he was about to be
> drafted into an army and so left for America to escape this draft.
> I'm curious if Germans were subject to a draft (and what army?) while
> living in Volhynia around that time.  Anyone know?
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