Minin and Pozharsky (Minin i Pozharskiy)
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Original Russian Poster
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Main Cast
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Character
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Actor
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Kuzma Minin
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Aleksandr Khanov
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Dmitry Pozharsky
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Boris Livanov
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Roman
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Boris Chirkov
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Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
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Anatoliy Goryunov
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King Sigismund III of Poland
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Mikhail Astangov
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Grigory Orlov
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Lev Sverdlin
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Stepan Khoroshev
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Vladimir Moskvin
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Prince Dmitry Troubetskoy
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Sergey Komarov
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Ivan Zarutsky
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Yevgeniy Kaluzhsky
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Pozharsky's wife
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Yelizaveta Kuzyurina
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Minin and Pozharsky (Минин и Пожарский; Minin i Pozharskiy) is a 1939 Soviet B&W movie directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller. Story take place during the end of Time of Troubles and tells about war between Russian peoples under the leadership of merchant Kuzma Minin and prince Dmitry Pozharsky against Polish army and Swedish mercenaries. This is the first movie about Time of Troubles. The second is 1612.
The following weapons were used in the film Minin and Pozharsky:
Pistols
Wheellock Pistol
Swedish mercenary Schmidt (Lev Fenin) fires Wheellock Pistol during the end of final battle.
Brunswick wheellock pistol
Schmidt (
Lev Fenin) holds his pistol in the left hand.
Schmidt (
Lev Fenin) fires his pistol at the Russian soldier.
Muskets
Wheellock Musket
Many Russian soldier fires Wheellock Muskets during the final battle. It's completely historically incorrect. While this type of firearms was exist during the 1613, it was a very expensive gun, which uses only by a rich military personnel or aristocrats, and it absolutely couldn't be the main mass firearm of soldiers in the country, which was destroyed by a long civil war.
Mayflower Wheellock Musket
Russian soldier cleans his musket.
Perfect view of the buttstock.
Russian soldiers aims his musket. Note, that he uses
berdysh as bipode.
Close view of the whellock.
Matchlock Musket
Matchlock Musket can be briefly seen in the hands of one Polish soldier. Another type of Matchlock Muskets was used by Russian man (Mikhail Gluzskiy). Swedish mercenaries were armed with the matchlock as well.
European Matchlock musket.
Polish soldiers with the gun.
The same soldier a few seconds later.
Russian man fires his musket. Due the fact, that any part of the matchlock doesn't move, it's obviosly, that the flame and smoke are produced by pyrotechnical charge in the muzzle.
Swedish mercenaries with the muskets at the background. Matches is seen
Charleville Musket
Polish soldier (Aleksandr Chistyakov) fires heavy anochronistic Charleville Musket to wounds Dmitry Pozharsky (Boris Livanov).
Original Charleville Mle 1763 - .69 caliber
Polish soldier aims. Note the similar muzzle shape.
When Polish soldier fires fires, the flintlock doesn't move and the flame and smoke are produced by pyrotechnical charge in the muzzle.
Another view of the same scene. Note the similar barrel band and ramrod position. Note also, that the second barrel band is broken (it's mark on the stock is seen).
Other
Cannon
Polish soldiers and Russian militiamen uses cannons.
Naval cannon - 18th century
Polish commanders on the Moscow Cremlin near the cannons.
Russian soldiers near cannon.
Bandolier
The mandatory part of musketeers equipment, bandolier (that is often forgotten in historical movies) had carried by most of musket wielding soldiers.
Russian artilleryman Zotov (Nikolai Nikitich) carry bandolier. In the movie, he didn't use any small arms, but the screenshots were taken from restored version, while the original (and, currently lost) version of this movie runs more the half hour longer than restored version, so, most likelyhe used small arms in the scenes, that later were cutted.
Russian soldiers with the bandoliers.