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Sergey V. Talantov – private collector and researcher in the field of Cossack and Caucasian weapons of the Imperial Russian Army of the late XVIII – early XX centuries (Moscow, Russia).
All of author's articles
- Dragoon Office Cavalry Sword – the Golden Weapon of Emperor Alexander III
- A Dismountable Dagger by Geurk Eliarov from Tiflis
- On the Dagger belonged to Timothy Jaschik, the Bodyguard Cossack in the Emperor Nikolas II and the Empress Maria Fjodorovna Service
- French-language Marks of Blade Smiths from Kazi-Kumukh (Dagestan) in the 19th Century