Russian Military and Warfare

External Pages

Arms and Armor - articles from the Slavic Interest Group newsletter, Slovo.
Mail and Plate: Amateur guide to Russian and eastern armor. Has an English translation, but most of the site is still in Russian.
Medieval Russian Armor - overview by John Sloan, part of the Xenophon Group International.
Byzantine Lamellar Armour: Conjectural Reconstruction - by Peter Beatson of the New Varangian Guard.
Armor and Warriors of the Silk Road- by Norman Finkelstein of Silk Road Designs Armoury.
13th-14th Century Russian Arms and Armor- by Sofya la Rus.
Russian Armor in the Time of Ivan the Terrible - PDF article by Master Mordak Timofeevich Rostovskogo
Helmet of Ivan the Terrible - http://www.kreml.ru/en/main/exhibition/Kremlin/?ID=268

The New Varangian Guard: A branch of a group that focuses on the interaction between Byzantium and the Kievan Rus' in the period 969-1015AD. A very nicely set-up and informative site.
Some Russian Historical reenactment/role-playing sites. They are mostly in Russian, but many contain useful pictures for those who don't read Russian.
- Tozhe Gorod: A Russian reenactment Group. Some pages are in English. There is also a Bulletin Board for those interested.
- Eressea: Some articles on Russian-style historical Role-playing. Some in Russian, some in English
- Nasledie Predkov ("Heritage of the Ancestors: Good pics of weapons and people in garb
- The New Varangian Guard

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