July 4 - Klushino 1610 & US 1776- 2026

 Salvete Omnes,

today is 416th anniversary of the great battle of Klushino 1610.

Toma's minis world @copyright

and glorious 250 years of USA - Vivat

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Henry Lee 

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Kazimierz Pulaski

Happy Birthday US

Valete

Klushino - Kluszyn 1610 - Happy 4th of July

 Salvete Omnes,

Happy 4th of July to all Americans around the world.

and today in Polish history there is the 415th anniversary of the victory at the Russian village of Klushino (in Polish history - Kluszyn).

and some Polish Kingdom Royal Eagles of the Vasa kings period

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Valete

Happy 4th of July, America & remembering Klushino 1610AD

 Salvete Omnes,

today is the 4th - Happy Forth to all

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and today, but in 1610AD Polish Crown army under hetman Stanislaw Zolkiewski completely defeated Muscovite army commanded by Dmitry Shuisky and Jacob de la Gardie. Road to Moscow, the capital was opened, and the Poles took completely over the Russian capital in September 1610AD. 

or roughly 3000 Polish soldiers, mostly Polish winged hussar lancers, vs 18,0000 ( 3,300 Western European mercenaries and 15,000 Muscovite soldiers) tsar's army  plus 20-30,000 camp followers. (lots of nonsense in the Polish and English Wikipedia articles )

Web archive article in English about the battle - pdf form.

vivat 
valete

Klushino 1610

 Salvete Omnes,

precisely yesterday but in AD 1610 Polish Crown grand hetman Stanislaw Zolkiewski leading a small but chosen army defeated the Muscovite army near the village of Klushino. 

It was a grand victory... and led to some momentous changes in Eastern Europe.
Today I was looking at the Wiki Commons- Sigismund III Vasa gallery and became pleasantly surprised to 'discover' this image - attributed to Monogrammist ASL and showing our king victorious with Smolensk in the background.

this well  known print (made after the lost Tommaso Dolabella painting) : 

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some details from the drawing:

winged hussar

Old Polish Kozak cavalry

 

winged hussars banner

Rotameister or  a captain of Polish hajduk infantry or a field commander ordering infantry to action [I 'mirrored' the detail from the original drawing ]

Valete

Muscovy Horses of early 17th century - Captain Margeret

Salvete Omnes,

      Jacques Margeret was a Huguenot mercenary who served in Muscovy (Grand Duchy of Muscovy) starting with tsar Boris Godunov,  tsar Dimitrii Ivanovich, and tsar Vasilii Shuiskii, and being a partner? confidante? of Mikhail Saltykov Glebovich  went over to the Polish side, thus serving with the Polish Crown and our King Sigismund III's army. 

Captain Margeret, while in Polish service,  participated with distinction in the battle of Kluszino, He left Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth circa 1612, eventually settled in Germanies, becoming a confidante and consultant to several rulers and magnates of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and German states, and by 1619 disappeared from the pages of history.

While in France after the death of Dimitri I, he wrote a very interesting account on the Muscovite state, and in his work  he also described horses of the Grand Duchy of Lithuanian, thus we can read about the Muscovite Russian (eg of Vologda) ,Nogai Tatar, Polish and Turkish horses in this work (English translation titled "The Russian Empire and Grand Duchy of Muscovy" ).
I compiled the pertinent pages from Gallica - French National Library - the French original

and two images containing  the old Muscovite Russian saddles

Valete

Wypisy zrodlowe do dziejow Husarii - R. Sikora

 Salvete Omne,

[in Polish]

Wielkie Nieba!
.. właśnie dostałem od mego druha dr Radosława Sikory jego najnowszą książkę - opus magnum niezwykle i pierwsze w historiografii polskiej dotyczącej historii jazdy polskiej kopijniczej zwanej husarią: 

Wypisy źródłowe do dziejów husarii. AD 2020.

Książka została wydana przez Wydawnictwo 3DOM z Częstochowy. Widzę, że książka jest dostępna także tutaj.

ISBN 978-83-66227-39-2

Ilosc stron -436

Praca czyli wybór źródeł do historii husarii zawiera 105 chronologicznie ułożonych źródeł (od opisu wykonanego przez byłego towarzysza husarskiego Marcina Bielskiego do diariusza sekretarza królewskiego Adam Naruszewicza), w tym wiele przepisanych z rękopisów i są tu smaczki także dla tychże badaczy czy aficionado, którzy husaria zajmują się od dawna. Nie ma żadnych ilustracji, ale uwaga są kopiaste przypisy źródłowe do staropolskich wyrażeń, zwrotów i określeń  (2196 przypisów )

Twarda okładka, którą  załączam w pełnej krasie - zdjęcia są chronione prawem Copyright etc -

 

 jak i krotki film o tym jak powstała okładka na której znalazł się współczesny następca husarskich kopijników,   były  komandos tj żołnierz polskich Sił Specjalnych pan Piotr Tomasz 'Soyers 'Soyka.

Przy okazji pogadanka   Radkowa z Lęborka, gdzie min na filmie widzimy siodło wykonane przez siodlarza i jeźdźca Marcina Rudę  na podstawie zdjęć i opisów XVII-wiecznego siodła polskiego w zbiorach narodowych Królestwa Szwecji. Min  także można usłyszeć opis bitwy pod Kluszynem.

Ze wstępu autora:

 ergo, gorąco polecam jako konieczną pracę w biblioteczce badacza jak i entuzjasty/entuzjastki historii polskiej skrzydlatej jazdy kopijniczej.

Valete

Arabian Horse DNA study

Salvete Omnes,

the new month- :) , interesting battle anniversaries eg Kluszyn/Klushino 1610, Grunwald 1410 etc.
....in the realm of the genetic studies a new study has been made available - Genome Diversity and the Origin of the Arabian Horse.
The Nature brings this article in their scientific reports section - with multiple authors and geographicly spread out samples.
 
It has some puzzling conclusions going against the lore of the Arabian and English Thoroughbred mutual relationship. Namely, the Arabian horse had very little to do with the racing lines of the English blood horse, but there are Thoroughbreds in the modern Arabian lines[sic!].



and yet another genetic study article, on the Persian Arabians and their relationship to other Iranian breeds.
valete!

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photos from Wiki Commons