Russian cavalry 1806-7 via Robert Wilson

 Salvete Omnes,

long time ago I bought a book on the Russian Cossack irregular cavalry  during the Napoleonic wars, and looking for some information I checked whether this particular primary source -   Brief remarks on the character and composition of the Russian army, and a sketch of the campaigns in Poland in the years 1806 and 1807 -   cited in there was available on line.

A. V. Viskovatov - Istoricheskkoe opisanie Odezhdi i vooruzheniya Rossieskikh

Thankfully there are many sites where you can read or download to read this 1810 source by Robert T. Wilson. My favorite is world library Archive - here you can have the link.

Wiktor Mazurowski *- Friedland 

From this book I corralled for you general Wilson's remarks on the Russian regular cavalry from his book, describing the splendind qualities of the Russian army horses, comparing them with the period British horses when on campaign:

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*Wiktor Mazurowski (1859-1944) was a Polish painter of battles and war, educated in the atelier of Wojciech Gerson in Warsaw,  active  in Russian Poland and after 1918  in the independent Poland. In 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising 85 years old maestro Mazurowski was murdered, along with his wife Zofia, by the German SS unit. 

Valete

Happy Thanksgiving .. with some N.C. Wyeth's paintings

 Salvete Omnes, 

Thanksgiving - enjoy your turkey and rejoice having family around your  table.
May the peace and tranquility rule on this American holiday .

Happy Thanksgiving you all

And the post is illustrated with artwork by N.C. Wyeth. (most come from Wiki Commons, some of them are from this blog)

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Enjoy

Valete

Two Leggings - Crow warrior

 Salvete Omnes,

photos from the repository of the National Museum of the American Indian

William Wildschut collection 

a short post - in two days we will celebrate the Thanksgiving Day, with foods and merriment and some. 

long winter months are ahead of us, so from time to time I would like  to propose some reading for this dark period (in the Northern Hemisphere at least) .

I was looking thorough my books and one of them by prof. Peter Nabokov , with the foreword by John C. Ewers, popped out.
Namely, Two Leggings, The Making of a Crow Warrior. Great. great book about the bygone era of the American history as told by the participants - the Crow warriors.

 

This printed book  is  actually the  edited version of  William Wildschut's manuscript, compiled in Montana from meetings and talks & customary smokes with Two Leggings, his interpreters, and his fellow warrior friends between 1919-1923 

 You can borrow it from Archive World Library - I wonder if there is an audio book of this great historical work.

Valete

Stammbuch Andreas Huber - Cod.Don.899

 Salvete Omnes,

a short entry to this extraordinary Stammbuch of Andreas Huber - a mix of gouaches and woodcuts (of Jost Amman's workshop) from  1584 or the last quarter  of the XVI century. Held at the Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart (FR of Germany)- follow this  this link. 

enjoy

ps
caveat -
the war between Russian Federation and the West being fought in Ukraine, with horrendous losses to the people of that poor country,  has just gotten darker and more dangerous - Russians fired a new type of a hypersonic ballistic missile in Ukraine - prof. Ted Postol talks about this development with US Army colonel(retired) Daniel Davis (on his Yt channel) .  Our world is moving closer to a nuclear war? 

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