In 1871, it was to raise the necessary funds for the purchase of 20 000 revolverov.44 American First Model, received in the Russian Army designation "4, 2-line revolver Smith & Wesson 1st sample».Ĥ, 2-line revolver Smith & Wesson 1st sample It is therefore not surprising that the Commission recognized the Armory revolver quite suitable for adoption by the Russian army. He was distinguished by the presence of the automatic extractor, high precision and powerful enough battlefield munitions. In the US, the gun was considered the finest example of short-personal defense weapon. 44 American First Model of the American firm "Smith & Wesson» (Smith and Wesson). Commission drew the attention of a revolver. It should be noted that the officers were in no hurry to part with the usual guns and Armory Commission, meanwhile, closely followed all new models of revolvers, appears on the arms markets of Europe and America. An exception was made only for the Corps of Gendarmes: for him, they have bought 7100 of revolvers. For this reason, the officers of the army and the Guard was asked to purchase these guns at his own expense. However, when it came to making revolvers adopted, it became clear that the state do not have the necessary financial resources. Commission was considered more practical rate of fire revolvers compared to the singly charged pistols, their high reliability and constant readiness to fire. It was voted best French revolver Lefoshe (Lefaucheux) M 1853. In 1859, at the request of the Minister of War DA Milyukova Armory Commission Artillery Committee of the Main Artillery Directorate launched a comparative testing of new samples of foreign-made revolvers. Rotating drum (and feeding the next cartridge from the cartridge chamber) is carried out by the shooter by pressing the trigger.įor the first time in Russia at the highest level the issue of replacing guns were then armed with smoothbore gun was raised shortly after the end of the Crimean War of 1853-1856., During which the Russian army came to light the gap in virtually all types of small arms from the armies of other European countries. The name of this weapon comes from the Latin word revolve (rotate) and represents the main feature of the gun - the presence of a rotating drum with the chambers (jacks), which are both containers for cartridges and cartridge chamber of the barrel of a revolver. In the early XX century, the main type of individual firearms officers and certain categories of the lower ranks of the Russian Army had a revolver.