The Sergiev Posad Museum-Reserve has a small collection of ancient weapons, samples of which are exhibited in the exposition "Trinity-Sergius Lavra: architectural ensemble, pages of history (XIV-XVIII centuries)". The collection includes: halberds, reeds, spears and other edged weapons, protective armor of Russian and Polish soldiers, as well as cannons, cannonballs, and special devices used during the siege of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery in 1608-1610.

In the Trinity-Sergius Monastery in the 17th century there was a fairly large arsenal of weapons. The treasurer was in charge of "cannon" stocks, that is, manual and squeaky gunpowder and shells, as well as expensive weapons, armor and locks. The armory "old man" kept the arsenal, which was located in "special barns", that is, in the monastery's own Armory. He was in charge of cold offensive and hand firearms and spare parts for them (locks, barrels, stocks), as well as defensive weapons. He also kept all sorts of "tackle" (belts, hooks, powder flasks), as well as obsolete weapons. Trinity weapons in the 17th century were actively used for their intended purpose. It was issued to the monastery archers, the permanent military garrison of the fortress, as well as to certain categories of servants who were entrusted with the "sovereign" military service. In total, in the treasury of the monastery in the middle of the 17th century there were about a thousand items of various firearms, although they are not in the museum's collection. But there are lead bullets for handguns, which were used by the defenders of the monastery. Some bullets were made by casting lead into bullet molds (bullets with a “tail” without a sprue), other bullets were made by cutting and then running lead blanks, without heat treatment. Caliber 8–11 mm.

By the time of the Siege belong, not reflected in the monastery Inventory of 1641, but preserved to this day, such items as the Trinity "garlic". “Garlic”, (one of the historical names of which in the Moscow state, in our opinion, is a sweeping slingshot), similar to many items of “garlic” available in the SPMZ, was also found in the Tushino camp. It was assigned to O.V. Dvurechensky by the beginning of the 17th century. It is also believed that it was used to protect roads and paths on the outskirts of guarded camps (“camps”, camps, as well as fortresses, outposts, prisons), under the threat of cavalry raids.

The garrison artillery included various types of cannons, indicating the stock of cores and gunpowder for some of the guns, as well as the name of the gunner who was responsible for the maintenance and combat readiness of the gun. According to the results of a preliminary examination conducted by I.A. Komarov, only two barrels. These are forged iron guns of the 15th (?) - the first half of the 16th century with an ignition hole on top, almost equal in diameter both in the breech and in the muzzle, without decorations and inscriptions.

By the time of siege, the museum's collection includes four more small cast-iron guns, probably falconets, field guns of the 16th - early 17th centuries. One of them was found in the village of Rogachevo, on the site of the camp of the Polish prince Vladislav, who stood there in 1618. Six guns of our museum can be attributed to the time of siege. There were also larger siege weapons in the monastery, from which by the middle of the 17th century only cores remained, which did not fit any of the trunks available at that time.

The common names of the subject range of weapons found in the original documents of the participants in the Siege are a typological reference point for those types of weapons that could be used in both directions. These are chain mail and chain mail patches, bows, arrows, several sabers (whole and broken), spears, sweeping slingshots, reeds, Russian self-propelled guns, German muskets, as well as digging gear and even tulumbas (signal timpani).

Part of the weapons came to the Trinity Monastery as contributions. Detailed information about the insert weapons has been preserved, contained in the Add-on books of 1639 and 1673. From them we learn about exactly what types and types of weapons came to the monastery of St. Sergius from donors during the 16th-17th centuries. The earliest receipts of weapons are noted from 1544, the era of numerous wars, both external and internal. However, the entire arsenal of the Trinity Monastery was confiscated back in the 19th century and transferred to the Armory in Moscow.

In mid-July 1608, detachments (“banners”) of Jan Sapieha (1569-1611) entered the territory of the Moscow State. These were professional, well-armed and trained warriors of noble, gentry origin, under the command of captains experienced in "military affairs". In the army of Sapieha, the number of units of which, according to various sources, ranges from 1,700 to 7,000 people, there was, in addition to infantry, light-heavy cavalry with units of "winged" (or "flying") hussars, which were a terrible force in the open field. Approaching the Troitsa with an army, Sapieha set up his camp on Krasnaya Gora, half a kilometer southwest of the monastery (the remains of the Sapieha rampart were preserved until the middle of the last century).

The garrison of the defenders of the Trinity Monastery included both the Trinity warriors and military people who were part of the detachments of government troops sent by the tsar from Moscow: they were nobles, boyar children, archers and free Cossacks. The monastery's own military forces are the monastery servants and the monks themselves, skilled in military affairs.

The collection of the museum contains sets of weapons of the Polish and Russian warriors during the Siege of 1608-1610. As well as samples of edged weapons of the 17th century, but not from the arsenal of the Trinity Monastery.

The exhibition "Weapons of the 19th - 20th centuries from the collection of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia" was prepared as part of the museum's events dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition presents many unique samples of domestic and foreign long-barreled and short-barreled firearms that have not been exhibited before.

The stock collection of weapons in the museum has been formed for more than 70 years. The time range of the collection in terms of the time the weapons were made is 250 years. The Museum of Modern History of Russia collected primarily those weapons that reflected the history of the revolutionary movement and the military history of our country. That is why most of the museum items refer to the revolutionary events of 1905, 1917, the Civil War of 1918-1922, the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Each item in the collection is valuable as a witness and participant in historical events.

Flintlock pistols, paired. Albania, 18th century A gift to I.V. Stalin on the 30th anniversary of the October Revolution from the Albanian people.


Double-barreled center-fire pistol of the Remington system, model 1877. Belgium, Liege. Pistols of this system (single-barreled) were tested in Russia for its introduction into service. Trophy of the Red Army during the annexation of Bessarabia to the USSR in 1940.


Caucasian dagger. Gift of M.I. Kalinin from the workers of Dagestan, 1920s


Revolver of the Nagant system, model 1895, soldier. Russia, Tula, Tula arms factory. Belonged to V.M. Panov, a participant in the revolutionary events of 1917. and the Russian Civil War 1918-1920.


Small-caliber sports pistol of the Margolin system in a case. A gift to I.V. Stalin on the occasion of his 70th birthday from the staff of the Tula Arms Plant.


Revolver model Velodog. Belgium. Civilian revolver. A gift from the statesman and political figure, People's Commissar of Heavy Industry of the USSR G.K. Ordzhonikidze to his wife Z.G. Ordzhonikidze.


Revolver model Kobold. Civilian revolver, named after a brownie from Scandinavian folklore. Weapons of participants in the Civil War in Russia 1918-1920 in the Far East.


Three-line rifles


Self-loading pistol TK sample 1926 Korovin systems. Belonged to the Hero of the Soviet Union A.E. Kleshchev, commander of the partisan unit of the Pinsk region of Belarus during the Great Patriotic War.


An invaluable contribution to the military successes of our country was made by famous domestic gunsmiths - designers of firearms, who preserved and increased the heritage of technical thought. G.S. Shpagin, F.V. Tokarev, M.T. Kalashnikov - names known to the whole world.

Carbine, self-loading rifle system F.V. Tokarev


On the battlefields of numerous wars of the last two centuries, Russian soldiers won truly historic victories - largely due to the weapons they fought with.


Battalion mortar, 1983 the USSR

Mortar company model 1938.

Weapons of the Red Army in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.



Air pistol, sports, model Tell (Germany, Venus company, Zella-Mehlis)

Sports and training weapons P.S. Rybalko, Marshal of the Armored Forces.



Information interactive stand where you can get acquainted with weapons, read the history and characteristics. The most convenient thing about the stand is that the view of the next weapon is switched using hand gestures


Automatic system M.T. Kalashnikov, airborne, AKS-47 (Weapon of the Soviet army)


Formation training. Single training. Rifle tricks


Shooting tricks. Ready to shoot. Shot production.


Visitors to the exhibition are given a small bonus in the form of a master class on disassembling and collecting weapons.


The master class is conducted by the senior researcher of the State Center for International Relations, the curator of the collection of weapons - Sheparev Roman Mikhailovich


The exhibition can be visited with museum tickets.

The museum is open:

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday from 10.00 to 18.00, ticket office until 17.30
Thursday from 12.00 to 21.00, ticket office until 20.30
Saturday, Sunday from 11.00 to 19.00, ticket office until 18.30
Monday is a day off.
Ticket price
Full ticket: 250 rubles. Reduced ticket: 100 rubles. (for pupils, students of higher education institutions of the Russian Federation, pensioners).


The museum and especially the exhibition will be of interest to boys and men

Gunsmithing is historically the main Tula craft. In honor of this, the coat of arms of the city depicts two crossed blades, a gun barrel and two golden hammers ( "all this shows the notes of a worthy and useful weapons factory located in this city").
Therefore, the main museum of the city of Tula is the museum of weapons.
It is located in the Kremlin in the building of the former Epiphany Cathedral:


The museum was founded in 1775 by order of Catherine II. The current exposition has been operating since 1989 and now a new luxurious building is being completed for the museum.


In 1712, Tula became the arms capital of Russia: Peter the Great founded the country's first state-owned arms factory here.
Firearms of the Russian army of the 18th century:




The names of the types of firearms of that time are completely obscure for me: fittings, fuzei, blunderbusses, mortars, as well as more understandable guns, carbines and pistols. They were heaps of different types and differed for different branches of the military and military ranks.
Steel arms:

swords


Ephesus broadsword of the Life Guards Cavalry Regiment

Hussar and cavalry sabers and a hunting cleaver.



Foreign flintlock pistols.
The flint-impact mechanism for igniting gunpowder for a shot (this is when a spark that ignites gunpowder is fired with a trigger with silicon) replaced the previously used wick mechanism in the 17th century (it was necessary to first ignite the wick to fire, which then ignited the gunpowder) and the wheel mechanism (the carving sparks of the wheel, which had to be started with a special key).


Corner of the Patriotic War of 1812. In memory of those who died in this war, a cathedral was built, the building of which houses a museum.
In the 19th century, the percussion-flint mechanism was replaced by a percussion cap. The primer (a metal cap with an explosive) ignites from a hammer blow and ignites the powder charge. Since 1845, all weapons for the Russian army were already made with a primer mechanism.


Capsule dueling pistol.
Civil weapons 18-19 centuries:


Percussion flintlock blunderbuss, double-barreled capsule pistols, five-barreled capsule gun, capsule road pistol (Barmaley ran with this), bundelrevolvers (upper with a bayonet).


Shotguns
In the middle of the 19th century, the mass use of guns began, loaded not through the muzzle, but with the help of a bolt. Since 1868, the Russian army has been using a single-shot rifle of the Berdan system ("berdanka"). It was replaced in 1891 by the 3-line multi-shot Mosin rifle ("three-line").
The line (this is a measure of length) is equal to 1/10 of an inch, i.e. 3 lines = caliber 7.62 mm. The Mosin rifle of the 1891 model was used in the army until the end of World War II. And for a long time after it, sports and hunting versions of the rifle were used.


3-lin. infantry rifle mod. 1891 Factory No. 1
3-lin. infantry rifle mod. 1891 Factory No. 1000000 (1897).
A total of 37 million pieces were produced.


Revolvers replaced muzzle-loading pistols in the army in the 19th century.


Since 1895, a 3-line revolver of the Nagant system has been adopted.
Above is a Belgian sample, which was taken to start production in Tula. Nagan was in service until 1945, after which it was used by the police for some time.
Nagant and three-ruler became the main weapon of the civil war in Russia.


Five-barreled naval gun 1896.
A little exotic


Various basurman weapons


fireworks


Discussion of experts on the features of military conflicts in the pre-Petrine era.


Crossbows, axe, helmet, shield, axe, maces and mace.


fashion hatchet
Eureka! Royal clothes of a gun:



stamp butt


Like the first hall briefly looked at the whole.
We rise to the second floor.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the mass use of automatic weapons has begun, in which reloading occurs due to the energy received when fired. In 1883, the American Maxim invented a machine gun, from which all other automatic machine guns originated. From that moment on, the effectiveness of killing each other on the battlefield increases many times over.


Machine guns of World War I.
Hand guns:


On the left, the weapon of every self-respecting gangster is a 1921 Thompson submachine gun.


Foreign automatic multi-shot pistols. They are replacing revolvers in the army, pushing them into the civilian sphere.


The interior is impressive - the entire ceiling is iconographically painted on the theme of labor and defense of the Soviet state.
Weapons designed by Dyagterev:


Manual machine guns mod. 1927 (the main weapon of infantry fire support during the Second World War) and arr. 1944 (RPD). Experienced self-loading rifles.


Submachine gun model 1940 of the Degtyarev system (PPD).


Machine guns Degtyarev.
Weapons designed by Fedorov:

The first domestic automatic machine in 1913.


Domestic pistols
Weapons designed by Tokarev:


SVT self-loading rifles and pistol mod. 1930, prototypes.


Tula Tokarev.


aircraft cannons


Foreign weapons of World War II.


German Pupchen rocket-propelled grenade launcher. 1943


fascist weapons - barrels down.
Weapon of victory:


machine guns, mortar, anti-tank rifle.


three-ruler, Shpagin submachine gun 1941. with a drum and sector magazine (PPSh), a submachine gun of the Sudayev system 1943. (PPS). Checkers and daggers.
Tula defenders' personal weapons:


Mauser, TT, Nagant, PPSh, SKT, Korovin submachine gun arr. 1941, checker, knives.


industrial molotov cocktail.


Three-ruler.
Post-war weapons:


Dragunov SVD sniper rifle, RPG-4 anti-tank grenade launcher, RP-46 company machine gun, Simonov SKS-45 self-loading carbines.


There are stands with a mass of sports and hunting weapons, but they somehow did not interest me.
To the right are anti-tank, flamethrower and some other systems.


Grenade launchers.
Tula Museum of Weapons from the authors:


PM

AK


Weapon designed by Afanasiev.


Weapon designed by Korobov.

Weapon designed by Stechkin.


Weapon designed by Makarov.


Weapon designed by Kalashnikov.
At this stand, a group of German tourists stood and listened to the tour right under the wonderful painting above their heads:


to remember.

Special weapons:


Shooting knife, Nikonov AN-94 "Abakan" submachine gun, special pistols, special sniper rifle VSS "Vintorez", special submachine gun AS "Val", APS submachine gun and SPP-1M pistol.
Stand with microscopes:
"... Such masters as the fabulous left-hander, now, of course, are no longer in Tula: machines have equalized the inequality of talents and talents, and genius is not torn in the struggle against diligence and accuracy."
N. S. Leskov, "Lefty", 1881






Mosin rifle, total length 3 mm.


Here it was not possible to remove it entirely: this is the leg of a natural flea with a horseshoe (0.05 by 0.045 mm). There are four horseshoes in total, each with three nails.
This was done by master Nikolai Aldunin from the city of Aleksin in 2002-2003.
That's it!))


glory to the CPSU.

It has always been common for people to kill each other exquisitely and with fiction. Therefore, the weapon used for this, which, with the course of the development of the evolution of mankind, was constantly improved technically, always had to be also aesthetically perfect.
The weapon has its own attraction, as does everything related to death. Any military weapon is always beautiful in its own way.

In Moscow, there are many museums dedicated to armed conflicts, military affairs, great battles, victims and hardships of war. Each of them has a huge collection of weapons, equipment, and some of them even have tanks and other armored vehicles at the entrance.

How is the Museum of Weapons, which is located in, different from others?

This is the first fully interactive Museum of Weapons in Moscow, in which the exhibits do not lie under glass, obscured by signs “Do not touch with your hands!”.

Here, no one will scold you for trying to aim at the sight of a Mosin sniper rifle or for wanting to try on helmets and uniforms on display as exhibits.

Do you want to find out which submachine gun of the Great Patriotic War was better and more convenient - the legendary PPSh, the no less legendary PPS, Thompson M1928A1, STEN Mk.II, or maybe the German MP-40? Or perhaps you want to feel the hardships service in a modern special forces unit? At your disposal are modern personal protective equipment and weapons currently used by fighters of elite units!

Have you ever wondered how time consuming the process of loading a machine gun belt is? And in the field? Here you can find out how convenient Rakov's machine is and try to equip the machine-gun belt yourself.

It is in this Museum that you can use a wired field telephone to communicate with your comrades and find out how tankers talk to each other, despite the deafening noise of armored vehicles.

The guides of the interactive Museum of Weapons are always happy not only to give you an interesting tour, but also to help you arrange a full-fledged photo session with trying on any exhibits that are in the Museum.

The museum exposition contains more than 30 samples of small arms and grenade launchers, as well as more than 100 other exhibits made in the USSR, Russia, Great Britain, Germany, USA, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Finland and Czechoslovakia.

In addition to the tour, visitors can also take a master class on assembling and disassembling weapons displayed in the Museum. 2 master classes are waiting for you: - "Weapons of the Great Patriotic War", the program of which includes training in assembling and disassembling the Mosin sniper rifle, the Shpagin submachine gun, the Sudaev submachine gun and the Nagan revolver; – “Russian Weapons”, during which you will be taught how to disassemble and assemble the AK-74, the Vityaz submachine gun and the Makarov pistol.

But this does not mean that the list of what you can parse ends here. With most of the exhibits of the Museum of Weapons, you can also make an incomplete assembly and disassembly.

The Museum of Weapons, even without an excursion, will delight both children and their parents, and you may not notice how you spend several hours in it! Don't miss your chance to make your childhood dreams come true!

Every Wednesday, our museum hosts "Weapon Days"!

There are 3 guided tours per day dedicated to the weapons of the day.

Tour times:

  • Excursion №1 11:00 - 13:00
  • Excursion №2 14:00 - 16:00
  • Excursion №3 17:00 - 19:00

Price:

  • Entrance ticket - 300 rubles. (per person)
  • Ticket with a guided tour - 500 rubles. (per person)
  • Master class on assembling and disassembling weapons - 200 rubles. (per person) (600 rubles for a group of 3 people)

Children under 6 years old, the disabled, and combat veterans (upon presentation of a certificate) have the right not to pay for an entrance ticket.

Students, cadets, large families, military personnel and law enforcement officers are given a discount of 100 rubles.

How to get there:

The museum is located in the Izmailovsky Kremlin, a 5-minute walk from Partizanskaya metro station.