Astvatsaturyan worked all her life in the State Historical Museum in Moscow. This misindefication is not her fault.
I saw this catalogue posted on another Forum ~ week ago and sent an e-mail to the organizers re. Flyssa; no response yet...
Here is the link
http://forums.swordforum.com/showthr...threadid=64364
Many nice weapons. I was very intrigued by the Central Asian "promise", but did not see much I did not know already. I would love to learn more about Kazakh, Uzbek and Kirghiz swords in a systematic fashion.
Any good source?