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The Knights' Hall. The series Your
Hermitage The series Your Hermitage is addressed to school children and has been prepared in keeping with the school curriculum and interests of the young visitors to the Hermitage themselves After a nearly 40-year interruption, the State Hermitage Publishing House has issued a new handbook to the Knights’ Hall for school-age children. This modest sized and bright-looking book in a convenient format is filled with colored illustrations, as well as reproductions of old prints and drawings. The text has been written in simple and inventive language. The author tells us about the history of the development of arms in the 15th - 17th centuries and their specific features, about knights, wars, tournaments, and hunting. In chronological order we are given a discussion about the different forms of weapons - defensive, cold arms, firearms. A significant amount of material is devoted to the masters who made these arms - blacksmiths, specialists in plating, cutting, chasing, engraving and artists - as well as to the techniques employed to manufacture and decorate the weapons. The text is divided into several chapters, each of which is illustrated with supplemental material - old engravings and drawings. Unlike previous guidebooks, the present edition has a small section dealing with the history of the formation of the Hermitage collection of arms from the beginning of the 19th century and information about their owners. |
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