In the drawer are high-quality weapons from the Caucasus from the 19th century. During this period, these areas were places of exile for Polish political prisoners during the Russian partition, places of battle for Polish soldiers forcibly integrated into the Tsarist army, but also a fascinating place for ethnographers, naturalists, collectors and travellers.
Russia (?), 19th c.
Iron, wood, bone, silver, gold, velvet, forging, bluing, gilding, openwork, repoussé
Caucasus, ca. 1797
Iron, silver, gold, bone (walrus tusk), leather, forging, embossing, inlay, gilding, blackening, niello, punching, polishing
From the former armoury of Piotr Moszyński in Krakow
Caucasus, second half of the 19th c.
Iron, silver, horn, leather, wood, forging, punching, repoussé, niello, punching
Gift of Leon Kostka, 1949
Dagestan, 18th-19th c. (?)
Iron, steel (pattern welded), wood, silver, gold, gilding, forging, niello, inlay
Caucasus, 19th c.
Horn, silver, niello, repoussé, punching, polishing
Deposit of the Academy of Learning, 1886. Gift of Jan Fischer
Persia or Caucasus, 18th-19th c.
Iron, silver, inlay, niello
Deposit of the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London