Shield this is also one of two absolutely identical shields kept in the armoury chamber under no. 6 and 7. In the inventory of 1687 (sheet 191) they are described as follows: “two shields are sewn on scarlet velvet with drawn gold; on top on a large silver cloak, in them four round jaspers are incised with gold; in the jaspers there are five cherubic worm-shaped stones, including in two jaspers there is no stone, and there is no nest; one jasper is broken; in the same jaspers along the strung burdock of seven pearl grains, and in large cloaks of five zabirzat stones, and near the large upper zabirzat four grasses, in them seven sparks, and seven small grasses, in them three cherub worm-like sparks, and eight silver burdocks, in them seven turquoises; one has a turquoise in twenty-four nests, the other has twenty and in four nests a cherub worm-like spark; on the shield eight silver cloaks gilded with stones; above and below the cloaks two oblique silver links with stones; in four cloaks in links twenty by eight cherub sparks, and fourteen turquoises; in the other four cloaks and in the links of twenty eight turquoises, and fourteen lilac-red sparkles; near the shields are silver gilded carved crowns; on the crowns are embossed grasses, fourteen by one grass; in them in thirty in one grass, in another crown in thirty grasses three lilac-red sparkles in a grass; and in thirty in one grass, and in thirty grasses three turquoises in a grass; also lined with a scarlet velvet cushion; a binding and an armour column of green silk; ten rings with punches and burdocks of copper gilded, one ring torn out; the shields are trimmed, one with gold blue, the other with silver. According to the register book it is written: “grechenin yury ivanov bowed to the great sovereign in the year 1657. The price was fifty rubles. ” and according to the current census of the year 1657 and the inspection, those shields matched the previous census books; the price of those shields was fifty rubles, and in the previous inventory book they were written in the second article. ”. Date: before 1853.
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