The shield was presented by the ambassador of the persian shah abbas ii, aga assan, to tsar mikhail fedorovich on december 29, 1644. “the shield is made of black horn leather; on the top of the shield is a round turquoise cloak in gold, on it is a round gold apron, in the apron is an emerald stone, and four kafim burmitz grains, and four yachontiks, and sixteen worm-like sparkles of yachont, and thirty-two turquoises, and near the turquoise cloak seventy-one pearl grains, and three places are empty; and near the same cloak eight gold burdocks, including three of them with five worm-like yachontiks, and seven small turquoises, including one place is empty turquoise; in three burdocks each is a burmitz, kafim pearl grain, and in two burdocks each is an emerald; near the grains and emeralds, four worm-like yachontiki, and seven small turquoises; eleven golden burdocks are attached to golden loops; near the shield, a golden crown is damaged in many places, in it are two hundred and ninety-seven pearl grains, nine places are bare; lined with shaggy silk, under the loops are golden circles; a suitcase of persian gold velvet, lined with double-sided roads. In the suitcase, in paper, there is a hollowed pearl grain and an emerald sparkle. According to the notebooks it is written: “sent to the great sovereign as a gift by the kizilbash shah obbas in the year; the price is one hundred and fifty-one rubles twenty altyns. ” and according to the current census of the year and upon inspection, that shield has come together against the previous census books, at the top in the circle and in the border there are no twenty-one pearls. ”. Date: before 1853.
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