BOOKS - MILITARY HISTORY - Призовые часы в Российской Императорской армии...
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188201
188201
Призовые часы в Российской Императорской армии
Year: 2004
Number of pages: 111
Format: PDF
File size: 20
Language: RU
Number of pages: 111
Format: PDF
File size: 20
Language: RU
The book tells about the well-known, but little-studied tradition of awarding soldiers of the Russian Imperial Army with prize hours for successes in competitive shooting, dressage, fencing and fencing, as well as in intelligence, sports and excellent mastery of military disciplines. Based on orders and archival documents, the book traces how a silver watch, which in the first half of the 19th century. presented as an imperial gift, by the beginning of the 20th century. became an independent, relatively massive and affordable award in the general system of rewarding the lower ranks of the Russian army, which stimulated the development of military art and sports. The book is equipped with numerous illustrations that clearly reveal the diverse world of silver watches as a visible evidence of the outstanding qualities of their owners - speed, strength, accuracy, skill, endurance, excellent eye, in a word, all those skills that give the right to be called an excellent soldier.
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