Topchubashi - Sea, War And Beauty

Medicine chest, mahogany, winged front with thirteen glass bottles (unlabelled), balance, enema syringe, two confection glasses, and one labelled drawer, late 18th century              

schembart carnival costumes

illustrations from a schembartbuch, depicting costumes from the nuremberg 'schembartlauf' festival from the years 1449 to 1539. nuremberg, c. 1551-1600

source: Nuremberg, GNM, Hs 5664

Soviet marine artist Evgeny Voishvillo (1907-1993). Tea clipper "Thermopylae". "Marine Fleet Magazine" No.8, 1981

7 feet under the keel!

Ivan Kharchenko. First Russian warship "Oryol" ("Eagle")/

It was built in 1668 in the village of Dedinov on the Oka River. Displacement of about 250 tons, length - 24.5 m., width - 6.5 m., draft - 1.5 m., armament of 22 guns, crew of 58 people (captain, 22 sailors, 35 soldiers)

New book of "Russian Knights" (Russkie Vityazi) publishing house. O. Leonov, V. Glazkov. Uniforms of Russian Navy. 1703-1800. This is the latest book in a series of publications about the uniform of the Russian Navy. however, chronologically it is the first one.