AN INTERESTING PAINTING

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Originally Posted by Ibrahiim al Balooshi

Salaams all~ Jozef Brandt painted this in about 1880... Note the lead trooper carrying his trusted Shashqa.

And this is exactly the problem with paintings: the shashka is a much later form, which became popular only in the 19th century. Obviously, it was well adopted towards the end of the 1800s, when the painting was created, but is not reflective of the armament of 16/17th century Zaporozhian Cossacks.

Teodor