Photo tribute to Caucasus

[Rivkin]

Native arms of Caucasians are small round shield, small spear, bow and arrows, chain mail, shashka (sabre like weapon with no guard), kindjal - short sword, and very old straight swords - palashes, characterstic to mountainous northern Georgia and southern Chechnya.

Due to decrease in rifle's calibers caucasian where able to create chainmail that at some distance would not be penetrated by most rifles till the second half of XIX century. This is the reason why many of them, mostly georgian-khevsurs did wear chain mails well into XX century.