Monday, August 22, 2011

Uhlan of the Dziewanowski regiment from the Towarzysz regiment 1806-7

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Salve,  Let us turn for a moment to the Napoleonic era and the glorious year 1806 when Napoleonic armies liberated a small portion of Old ...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

For historians & future novelists - Jakub K. Haur 'Oekonomika ziemianska'

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Salve, some 350 years ago  Polish economist, writer Jakub K. Haur, after long and successful career of running various estates for nobles ...
Monday, August 8, 2011

Louise Firouz interview via youtube

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Salve, I would like to share with you  this video of the interview with one of the most important horsewomen of XX century - American-I...

Turkoman Horse & Argamak part I

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Salve, I hope to start a series of posts - all based on the source material from XVI-XIX centuries - related to the Turkoman horse of the ...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

on Hungarian saddle tree - excerpt from F. Dwyer (1868)

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Salve,  let me turn to a book by an Austrian Hussar officer of the 1860s, who wrote extensively on horse riding, saddles and bits ...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Muscovy (Russian) winged horsemen crica 1678

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 Salve, The winged horsemen of Russian Tsardom - well, to many this may be a surprise, but during XVII century the Russian Royal (tsarist)...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Mongolian Tatar after M.V. Gorelik and Chinese Medieval art

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Salve, finally I am going to start ''touching'' the subject of the greatest son of the Eurasian steppe and his Altaic peop...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Crimean Tatars sketches

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Salve, some sketches in working of the Crimean Tatars - my wife descends from them on her father side, being a descendant of the old Elisze...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Crimean Tatars, Poles and Hungarians - 1680s woodcuts

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Salve, today( after a two day discussion on a Polish history forum  on Crimean Tatars during the XVI-VII Historycy tatarzy   ) , I went in...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Ancient Macedonians - sketches

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Salve, I would like to share with you two sketches related to the Macedonian history and horse culture of IV century B.C. The very ...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Some newer sketches

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Salve, it is a lazy summer, with the skies full of amazing clouds and violent rainstorms.. I have been working on my 'problem horse...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Jan III Sobieski on horseback

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Salve, king Jan III Sobieski is one of my personal heroes, between his achievements as a king, statesman, commander, family man, famous ...
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Polish-Lithuanian towarzysz 1740s

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Salve, Polish-Lithuanian army of first half of XVIII century (time of the Saxon kings, or the so called ''Czasy Saskie'...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Hackamore

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Salve, last four weeks I have been learning to work with a problem horse - namely barn sour mare of some 10 years of age, that did not want...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Hungarian Hussars of king Charles I of Spain

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  Salve,  my dear friend and researcher Samuel  provided me with this fine primary document where Hungarian hussars in king Carlos I (em...
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

More images from L'Art de la Cavalerie by de Saunier

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Salve, some more fine images from de Saunier's book, ranging from horse gaits to movement while riding 1. 2. 3. 4. 5...