Duels. Weapons, masters, facts. Duels. Honor and love. Edition in 2 volumes

Duele. Weapons, masters, facts / duels. Honor and love. Edition in 2 volumes
Duel. Weapons, Master, Facts:
Book A. N. Kulinsky is devoted to a very interesting aspect of world history - dueling and dueling weapons. On the material of archival documents - military-judicial affairs, as well as information messages of foreign press, the impressive statistics of Russian and foreign duel XVII-XX centuries are presented for the first time, including 840 episodes. For the first time in the domestic literature, some comparative data on the number of duels held in various countries are given. The information contained in the book allows you to doubt the justice of established opinions about some particular cruelty of the Russian duel.
Duel. Honor and love:
Museum workers and collectors will also be an extensive annotated list of masters and firms manufactured by duel weapons.
In the history of legendary Dwells of Voltaire, Mirabo, Bairon, Proudhon, Lassale, Hamilton, Herzen, Pushkin, Lermontov, Trubetsky, Stolypin, Nabokova, Brysov, White, Voloshina, Gumilyev and many other politicians, scientists, writers, poets For each challenge, the punishment of the sword and the shot from the duel pistol in front of the reader appears not only the open protection of honor and love with weapons in their hands, and sometimes drama and tragedy of offended high feelings. In the narrative of the life and dueling of the heroes of this book, the reader will reveal the true human values ​​for himself - the nobility of relationships and personal dignity, honor and men"s prowess, friendship and love, without which in modern society, moral health and prosperity are impossible