Broadswords this rich broadsword, kept in the armoury chamber under no. 16, is unknown when and where it came from, but judging by the turkish finish and the similarity of the handle with the broadsword sent by the moldavian ruler vasily (fig. No. 93), it must be assumed that it was sent as a gift during relations with moldavia under ivan iv. In the article books of the turkish and wallachian embassies it is mentioned that in 1680, the voloshan yurya pavlov, sent to the sovereign tsar feodor alekseevich from the volos sovereign yuduki, while at an audience, presented the sovereign with, among other gifts, a broadsword, set in silver with stones. But the described broadsword, according to the inventory of 1687, already existed in previous inventory books: “a steel sword, on the strip from the flint on both sides the bare lap is worn away with a dolik, near the dolik on the right side there is half a glue; a household scabbard of silver gilded carved; five ferrules, a handle and a flint of silver gilded carved; in the handle and in the flint throughout the scabbard in the sockets and in the ferrules one hundred and thirty-one cherubs, large and small, faceted and smooth; in the middle of the flint a large faceted cherub, and one hundred and fifty-two turquoises, large and small, and six emeralds; the handle has a worm-eaten kinglet in the animal heads, a ring with three caps in the lower lip, a column of azure silk tied on it, three colored silk varvorki. And according to the current census and inspection, that polash agreed with the previous census books; according to the previous census books, in the previous year it was written: in the setting there were fifty empty places where there were stones, and according to the current census and inspection, and with the previous forty-two sapphires and twenty-four turquoises, and three emeralds are missing from the canopy, and the animal's head is broken off from the canopy; the price is one hundred and ninety-two rubles, and in the previous census book it was listed fourth. "kept in the armory chamber under no. 11; by the similarity of the decoration and the handle with snake heads, it should also be attributed to the shipment from the rulers of moldavia. In the inventory of 1687, made from previous books, this broadsword is listed as the second among the broadswords in a silver frame: “a damask sword, set on the right sides with gold and silver; the handle and the rim have snake heads, in the handle near the snake head the place is bare; the frame on the scabbard is silver carved and gilded; in the rim and in the rim there are ten jaspers, and in them gold with hyacinth sparks is embedded, eight sparks in total, and five places are bare; on the mouth and on five bracers and on the tip nine jaspers, in them fifty-one sparks of yachont in gold, and fourteen places of free, and in the handle, and in the canopy, and in the mouth, and in the bracers, and in the tip eighty-seven turquoises, and a place of free; the belt is a band of colored silk without a frame; and in two bracers four rings of silver gilded, the scabbard is covered with scarlet velvet. And according to the current census of the year, that broadsword coincided with the previous census books, of the year, it is written: in the canopy and in the handle eight sparks, and five places of free; "yes, in ten jaspers there are fifty-one sparks, and fourteen empty places, but according to the current census, there were no sparks of jasper in the canopy, in the handle in the jaspers, and seven empty places and with the previous ones; but on the mouth, and in the brancara, and in the tip, in the jaspers there are no two sparks, and sixteen empty places and with the previous ones, but there is no belt; the price is one hundred and twenty-five rubles, and in the previous census books it is listed sixth. ". Date: before 1853.
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