on 23 October 1723. Every military man who emigrated to Russia with his wife and children would be granted arable land, while those who emigrated with larger numbers of people were promised additional privileges. Albanez was quite successful with recruitment. On 5 May 1724, Albanez reported from the Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia that he had recruited ten officers, including one colonel. According to some sources, 459 Serbs emigrated to Russia in 1724, and 600 in 1725. A detailed list of the military unit commanded by Albanez was made in 1726. They formed a small military unit commanded by Albanez and referred to as the Serb Command. In 1727 Albanez was appointed the first commander of the newly established Serb Hussar Regiment. See also Rajko Depreradović Jovan Šević Jovan Horvat Andrei Miloradovich Nikolay Depreradovich Ivan Adamovich Avram Ratkov Nikolay Bogdanov Ilya Duka Ivan Shevich Simeon Končarević Pavle Julinac Peter Tekeli Ivan Lukačević Simeon Piščević Semyon Zorich Georgi Emmanuel Mikhail Miloradovich Anto Gvozdenović References Sources External links Year of birth unknown 18th-century Serbian people Serbian military leaders Imperial Russian Army generals Slavo-Serbia People from the Russian Empire of Serbian descent Russian people of Serbian descent 1732 deaths Habsburg Serbs Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire 18th-century people from the Russian Empire Serbs of Montenegro