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Tango01  | 18 Sep 2025 1:54 p.m. PST |
""The Morning of the Streltsy Execution", "Khovanshchina", "In the Green Spring Under the Old Pine" from "Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession"… The Moscow Streltsy left a whole layer not only in stories, but also in culture. Infantrymen in scarlet caftans, with arquebuses and berdyshes became a symbol of pre-Petrine Rus'… Meanwhile, the first fighters with hand-held firearms weapons It was not they who entered the service of the Moscow Tsars. The first were the pishchalniki. The word was first used in 1485, when the Grand Duke of Ryazan ordered his boyar Yakov Burmin to deliver books, icons, vestments and other "all kinds of church buildings" to the Church of St. John Chrysostom, and then to add "all the silver coins and pishchalniki" to the church. True, it is not entirely clear whether these pishchalniki were fighters with firearms or craftsmen who made cannons and pishchalniki. Or perhaps both – a common practice in those days: firearms were used by those who made them…" link More here
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