Historical Information about Russian Weapons

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Originally Posted by Rivkin

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As a result until 1820 or so all you can see de facto is that troopers were purchasing weapons according to their means and even to lesser extent according to their units - like palashes for cuirasiers and so on.

This is interesting.

it would presumably mean in my time period (1710-1711, after the disbandment of the Streltsy, during one of Peter The Great's periodic wars against the Turks), the officers, being mostly nobles, would have had fairly decent weapons, while the common soldiery would not necessarily have had as good weapons.

I'm still of the opinion that an officer of the cavalry would have been armed with a sword/sabre, dagger and musket pistol, even if the names I was given weren't the right ones for the time period. I'll also admit that I learned more about kindjal while I was trying to research when they started being used than I ever thought I would want to know. They seem like fascinating items, and the photos I found in threads in this forum were a great help in visualising what other sites only gave descriptions for.

Azh