On 26 February 2019, the latest session of the Weaponry Seminar took place in the State Hermitage. The event was, as usual, attended by weaponry specialists from St Petersburg museums and independent researchers.
Alexander Nikolayevich Chubinsky, a researcher at the Museums of the Moscow Kremlin, gave a talk on “Barrels made by craftsmen of the Armoury Chamber on 18th- and 19th-century guns in the Hermitage collection”. In his presentation, Chubinsky traced the main characteristics of the works of the master gunsmiths of the Armoury Chamber in the 17th century and spoke about the barrels of long guns and pistols that he had identified in the State Hermitage collection that had been made by craftsmen of the Armoury Chamber and were used to make weapons in the 1700s and 1800s. The scholar’s research interest includes works made to commissions from the Russian monarchs and from private individuals.
The Hermitage’s Weaponry Seminar has meetings every month that are intended to bring together the scholarly community engaged in the study of matters relating to the history of weaponry.
