Sabre

After the books about the shashka and the dagger, it would simply be rude not to write about such a wonderful and legendary weapon as the sabre. After all, how many wonderful secrets, legends, and myths can the history of weapons tell us.

Why did the Cossacks not like the sabre? Could a Caucasian master buy an entire house for just one sabre blade? How many assassination attempts were there on the creator of Russian bulat, Colonel Anosov? How did the "kostiushka" differ from the "zigmuntovka"? How did our Turkmen with their ancestral sabres defeat the Germans?

Interesting? Then let's open the first page - and forward…