The gun soldiers Russian cavalry arr. 1809

Steel, wood, brass. The barrel is steel, circular in cross section, with the tide in the breech for mounting to a box. The bore is smooth. Sights consist of a semi-oval brass fly in front of the barrel. The flint lock, the battery type installed in the right side of the gun. In some sources it is called a French Chateau, or castle of the French type (the sample) due to the fact that its inventor is considered to be the French Royal artist and gunsmith Maren Le Bourgeois (Marin le Bourgeoys 1550 – 1634) from the Normandy town of Lisieux. The inventor successfully combined the positive features of Mediterranean and Baltic castles in a single structure. On the key-Board is engraved with "Tula 1813" (the mark of the Tula arms factory and the date of release of the product), and the punched stamp "U". On top of the base of the trunk punctured the image of the eagle in the circle, and prosterto unreadable mark. The trigger of the C-shape, steel. Trigger guard is brass, oval. On the trigger guard punched a series of stamps of the Russian military acceptance. Bed wooden handguard almost the entire length of the barrel. On the back side of the handle there is a patch medallion with the monogram of Alexander I. the Barrel is mounted on the bed by means of a ring at the muzzle and steel tide with a screw in the breech. The pistol has a brass backplate with two "whiskers" on the sides. The length of the handle of the gun axis from the butt pad to the shank of the breech bolt is approximately 160 mm. Powerful recoil pad is allowed to use the gun after the shot as a cold weapon shock action shatters.

Item is in good collectible condition, corrosion on the lock and the barrel, scratches and small cracks on the tree.

The pistol model 1809 was created in the period of transition of the Russian army in semilinearly gauge (17.7 mm). The prototype was a Russian flintlock pistol model 1798. According to historical documents of the 16th of June, 1810, carbines and pistols for cuirassier, Dragoon and hussar regiments were ordered to produce the newly approved sample, and those and others are equal and infantry guns of caliber equal to seven fractions of the English inch. Most likely, despite the fact that the sample pistol was adopted by the Emperor in 1809, to establish its mass production was possible only by the middle of 1810, although he released the gun before, during testing, and preparation for the production of weapons. The gun is sometimes referred to as Russian flintlock cavalry pistol of the sample of 1809, as it was in service with the Russian cavalry. Was used until the 1830s.