![]() ![]() However, this work was interrupted in the process of collection by the death of the scientist and was buried in archives for a long time.Ī lot of work in regard to helmets was done by Lents. In the Artillery Museum he collected a large exhibition on Southern Russian finds. Brandenburg visited many museums and private collections, leaving a wealth of notes and descriptions 3. The archives show that during the last years of his life the historian collected pictures, photos and descriptions of these helmets 2. Brandenburg undertook an attempt to summarise this material. Only at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th century, after extensive excavations of burial mounds, did helmets from the earlier periods of Russian history come to light. The main attention of research was previously focused on the helmets of the late medieval period stored in the Kremlins armory and other museums. ![]() Russian warriors were pictured in this helmet in the various works on the history of military costume 1. The Iaroslav helm was one of the first objects from which the study of old Russian arms and armor began. He stated that the armor belonged to Iaroslav Vsevolodovich, who abandoned the amour whilst fleeing from the battlefield of Lipetsk in 1216. At the Tsars order the President of Arts Academian Olenin identified and published the finds. The finds were deposited with the elder of the village, from him they went to the local priest and finally got as far as Tsar Alexander I. This was a helmet and chainmail compacted together. In 1808 not far from Uriev-Podolsk, at a small distance from the place where the battle of Lipetsk took place, one of the villagers while picking nuts in the bushes saw something gleaming. Those seeking to know about all thirty-seven of these helmets are encouraged to seek out his original work. Numbering used for helmets is that assigned by Kirpichnikov in his summary table, which provides details of their discovery, dimensions, and current location. Permission has been sought to reproduce these images on this web site, the translator and editor would like to thank all those who have generously provided their own photographs for our use. This English translation was prepared by Artem Nagorskiy, who also has collected new images and data to enhance Kirpichnikovs work. The latter volume includes a chapter on helmets, which forms the basis of this web page. Volume 1 comprises swords and sabres Volume 2 axes and spearheads and Volume 3 covers armour, plus the utilisation of arms and armour. Kirpichnikovs great corpus of Old Russian arms and armour was originally published in three volumes of Arkheologiia SSSR between 19. Translated and expanded by Artem Nagorskiyĭr. Published as- ∝revnerusskoe Oruzhie III: Dospech, Kompleks Boevych Sredstv IX-XIII vv. Chap. Old Russian Helmets from 10-13th Centuries ![]()
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