Note 8 — Chapter LII · VLADIVOSTOCK.

Thus, whilst 7 years’ service is exacted from a recruit who is uneducated, and 3 years from one who has passed through an elementary school, a boy who goes from the 5th class of a gymnasium serves as a soldier only 2 years; from the 6th class only 1 year; and from the 7th class, or the university, only 6 months, after which he can be examined for an officer’s commission, or may retire into the first reserve during 10 years, and then into the second reserve up to 40 years of age, after which he is altogether free from military service.