The book "Peter I's Collection of Weapons. Exhibition catalog", 1983

The original exhibition catalog is in excellent condition. Softcover. The format is 170*217 mm. The volume is 92 pages. The author is E. Tikhomirova. Guarantee of authenticity.

The catalog "Peter the Great's Collection of Weapons" (authored by Elena Vladimirovna Tikhomirova, a well—known weapons expert at the Moscow Kremlin State Museums) was prepared for the exhibition of the same name. It became an important event for Russian weapons science, which for the first time revealed in detail to the public the scale of the emperor's personal collection.  In total, the historical armory collection of Peter the Great has 526 samples. She's been going to them all her life. Unlike other tsars, Peter the Great collected not so much precious ceremonial weapons for ceremonial exits as combat and hunting working samples. He personally used many copies during the Northern War, in the Prussian and Persian campaigns or on hunting trips.  The exposition and the structure of the catalog itself were divided into three main parts:

• Firearms of the West and East of the XVII — early XVIII century (hunting arquebuses, rifled barrels, combat pistols from Saxony, Bohemia, Bavaria and other countries).


• Cold weapons of the West and the East (swords, sabers, broadswords and dirks). The cover of the catalog you have presented shows the recognizable guard of one of the Western European swords in the collection.


• Russian weapons of the turn of the century (including samples of the work of the masters of the Sovereign's Armory and the first domestic weapons factories).

This exhibition laid the foundation for further in-depth scientific study of Peter the Great's military historical heritage.