| One of Russia's first references about this relates | | | | model- copies of the pin revolvers of the |
| by 1810, when to arrived into Tula by prince | | | | systems in action prepared in 1893-1895 in the |
| Dolgorukov - they proposed to vapor of the flint | | | | Tula weapons Levoushe school, with the weight |
| pistols with a weight only of 13 grams. In its time | | | | only 8,97 and 5,47 grams, which easily were |
| it was required to the graduates of Mikhajlovsk | | | | accommodated in the match to box. Tula |
| artillery academy to leave the miniature working | | | | masters, into the memory about its legendary |
| model of one or other model or another of | | | | ancestor of Levoushe, they prepared several |
| firearms after itself. Today these miniatures, | | | | miniature acting model- copies of Soviet small |
| which are stored in the museums of Saint | | | | arms. Among them glorious PPSh - machine pistol |
| Petersburg, strike us not only with their similarity | | | | of the Shpagin system 1941 year, modernized in |
| to the original, but also with splendid artistic | | | | 1930 and even anti-tank is the gun of the system |
| finishing. In Russia there was a tradition to make | | | | of Degtarev (1941). It is here it will be appropriate |
| the gifts of miniature weapon to the persons of | | | | note that the real historical prototypes of " Tale |
| the reigning family. In the museum of Hermitage | | | | about the Tula slanting left-hander and about the |
| Museum is stored collection of three acting assault | | | | flea steel" the writer Leskov were precise |
| rifles. Mosin model 1891 into 1/4 full size, | | | | gunsmiths - Aleksey Surnin and Yakov Leont'yev, |
| presented in March 1897 to emperor. | | | | sent in 1785 for England for the instruction in |
| Nikolas II masters founded of Izhevsk miniature | | | | foremost collectible weapons production. The |
| arms factory, on occasion production by the | | | | copies of some hunting guns were also prepared |
| enterprise of first half million of rifles. Gold tsarist | | | | besides the miniature models of combat weapon |
| monogram was substituted to the chamber of | | | | in the Soviet time. For example, in 1959 the Tula |
| each miniature. In 1900 four analogous models | | | | masters made the small acting harpoon the gun, |
| were exposed on the Parisian international | | | | from which after 10 years produced several |
| exhibition. the Model - copy of the dragoon rifle of | | | | shots one of the first cosmonauts of the USSR. |
| the system Mosin model 1891, which is stored in | | | | Thus, besides aesthetical component, connected |
| the central museum of armed forces in Moscow | | | | with the miniature weapon, the practical value of |
| and transmitted there in 1963 by a participant in | | | | such collections consists in the possibility to trace |
| the Civil War. | | | | the history of the evolution of firearms, |
| Mr. Bogomazov is master and manufacturing plant | | | | development of methods and approaches of his |
| is, unfortunately, unknown. At The Russian plants | | | | production, finishing and adornment. |
| of Saint Petersburg, which generate artillery | | | | The today highly skilled masters make the |
| armament for the Russian army and the navy, | | | | miniature working models - the copy of different |
| was also disseminated the tradition: upon transfer | | | | scales; 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, the 1:5 of full size, at the |
| to the release of new series of instruments to | | | | highest professional level. Was prepared reduced |
| make their precise small size copies for the gifts | | | | three times, in comparison with the original the |
| to the reigning persons and honorable guests. | | | | model- copy of the carbine of model 1944, |
| These traditions increased in the Soviet time. The | | | | presented on January 26, 2001 by the central |
| first miniatures were dedicated by Lenin. In the fall | | | | museum of armed forces to President of the |
| of 1918, in the honor of the great victories of the | | | | Russian Federation - Putin. In the same year to |
| Red Army, workers of Izhevsk arms factory | | | | the Minister of Defense of Russia the marshal |
| presented to Lenin the miniature model of the | | | | Sergeyev was presented into the gift model- |
| trilinear rifle, which weighed less original 64 times, | | | | copy of one of the most popular models of small |
| grant inscription on case of which it said: " To | | | | arms of the Red Army of the period of the |
| great proletarian leader to comrade Lenin to the | | | | World War II of 1941-1945 - machine pistol PPSh. |
| memory about the taking of Izhevsk from the | | | | It was executed to scale 1:3 by the master of |
| 2nd iron division and the revolutionary civil council | | | | company Klokov. At present firm mastered the |
| of mountains. Interest became it was manifested | | | | production of more than 60 designations of the |
| not only to the already known miniatures, then to | | | | models of small arms of different countries. We |
| the new articles. | | | | invite to the collaboration of Russian and foreign |
| As push for this served the case, which occurred | | | | partners - the real amateurs of firearms and |
| in 1927 by Budenov in Tula. It tried the miniature | | | | collectors. |