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Russia leather (Russian: юфть or yuft) is a particular form of bark-tanned cow leather. It is distinguished from other types of leather by a processing step that takes place after tanning, where birch oil is worked into the rear face of the leather. This produces a leather that is hard-wearing, flexible and resistant to water. [1]
The first element of body armour to fall out of use was foot and leg protection. Around the same time plate and mail horse barding was relegated to a ceremonial role until disappearing for good in the mid-17th century. [1] In the 18th century, the only troop type to wear body armour was the cuirassier, named after their cuirass. [2]
In the British Army, sabretaches were first adopted at the end of the 18th century by light dragoon regiments, four of which acquired "hussar" status in 1805. [5] They were still being worn in combat by British cavalry during the Crimean War; "undress" versions in plain black patent leather were used on active duty. [6]
The Imperial Russian Army substituted a spiked helmet for the shako in 1844–45 but returned to the latter headdress in 1855, before adopting a form of kepi in 1864. [3] Following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, military fashions changed and cloth or leather helmets based on the German headdress began to supersede the shako in many armies.
17th century: Western Europeans Spangenhelm [6] 5th century: Central Asia, Near East & Europe; espec. by Scythians, Sarmatians, Persians, & Germans until 1000 Tarleton: c. 1770–1800: Crested, peaked leather helmet used by cavalry and light infantry and British Royal Horse Artillery, France and United States in the late 18th and early 19th ...
The famous 18th-century Russian sculptor, Fedot Shubin, started his career at Kholmogory as a walrus ivory carver. In the second half of the 18th century, the most notable carvers in Kholmogory were Osip Dudin and Nikolay Vereshchagin. In the second half of the 19th century, the handicraft declined, and by the 1880s only several carvers were left.
Russian mail and plate armour (behterets), Hermanni linn Museum, Narva, Estonia Polish: Bechter diagramm Different methods of joining plates to mail. Mail and plate armour (plated mail, plated chainmail, splinted mail/chainmail) is a type of mail with embedded plates.
By the 17th century there appeared a form of gorget with a low, unarticulated collar and larger front and back plates which covered more of the upper chest and back. In addition to being worn under the breast & backplates, as evidenced by at least two contemporary engravings, they were also commonly worn over civilian clothing or a buff coat ...