Weapons with its large pedigree belong to those few permanent satellites of world history that are practically its peers. Moreover, it was with the help of weapons that the most noticeable amendments were made to the course of the historical process. Russian scientist, numismatist, falerist and genealogist Pavel Pavlovich von Winkler (1866-1937) served in the Life Guards of the Semenovsky Regiment in his youth. Then he directly felt in the weapon that historical pulse, the countdown of which led millennia. Winkler became the first researcher of cold, throwing and firearms in Russian science.