The combat weapons of the Russian army and the fleet. 1700-1881 Directory

The publication proposed to the attention of readers is the first weapons reference book in domestic practice, which gives the scientific and documentary justification of the existing drill samples of cold weapons, which was in service with the Russian Guard, the army and navy in the period of 1700-1881. Also, for the first time in the reference book, a scientific attribution of already known and newly identified weapons of weapons was carried out.
A wide range of weapons presented on the pages of the directory represents the richest funds of domestic and foreign museums: state Hermitage, Vimaivs, GIM, Tula State Museum of Weapons, Museums of the Moscow Kremlin and the Museum of the Polish Army. To identify rare and little -known weapons samples, the authors had to turn to the funds of regional Russian museums located in Vladimir, Dmitrov, Izhevsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kostroma, Omsk, Perm and Chita. A noticeable contribution to the creation of a full selection of weapons samples was made by private domestic and foreign collectors.
To compile a documentary basis of the reference book, in addition to the already published materials, the authors involved unpublished sources from the funds of leading domestic specialized archives: the Russian State Military Historical Archive, the Russian State Archive of the Navy, the Russian State Historical Archive, the Russian State Archive of the Ancients acts, archive of Vimaivs and the State Archive of the Tula Region