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|caption = ''Original Russian Poster''
|caption = ''Original Russian Poster''
|country = [[Image:SOV.jpg|25px]] USSR
|country = [[Image:SOV.jpg|25px]] USSR
|director = Vsevolod Pudovkin<br> Mikhail Doller
|director = [[Vsevolod Pudovkin]]<br> [[Mikhail Doller]]
|date= 1939
|date= 1939
|language = Russian
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|character5=King Sigismund III of Poland
|character5=King Sigismund III of Poland
|actor5=[[Mikhail Astangov]]
|actor5=[[Mikhail Astangov]]
|character6=Grigory Orlov
|actor6=[[Lev Sverdlin]]
|character7=Stepan Khoroshev
|actor7=Vladimir Moskvin
|character8=Prince Dmitry Troubetskoy
|actor8=[[Sergey Komarov]]
|character9=Ivan Zarutsky
|actor9=Yevgeniy Kaluzhsky
|character10=Pozharsky's wife
|actor10=Yelizaveta Kuzyurina
}}
}}




'''''Minin and Pozharsky''''' (''Минин и Пожарский''; ''''Minin i Pozharskiy'''') is a 1939 Soviet B&W movie directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin ([[Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana)]]) 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]].
'''''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]].


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=Pistols=
==Wheellock Pistol==
==Wheellock Pistol==
Swedish mercenary Smith (Lev Fenin) fires [[Wheellock Pistol]] during the end of final battle.
Swedish mercenary Schmidt ([[Lev Fenin]]) fires [[Wheellock Pistol]] during the end of final battle.
[[Image:Brunswick pistol.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Brunswick wheellock pistol]]
[[Image:Brunswick pistol.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Brunswick wheellock pistol]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy pistol 1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Smith (Lev Fenin) holds his pistol in the left hand.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy pistol 1.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Schmidt ([[Lev Fenin]]) holds his pistol in the left hand.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy pistol 2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy pistol 2.jpg|thumb|none|501px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy pistol 3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy pistol 3.jpg|thumb|none|501px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy pistol 6.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy pistol 6.jpg|thumb|none|501px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy pistol 5.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Smith (Lev Fenin) fires his pistol at the Russian soldier.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy pistol 5.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Schmidt ([[Lev Fenin]]) fires his pistol at the Russian soldier.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy pistol 7.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Note the smoking barrel.]]


=Muskets=
==Wheellock Musket==
==Wheellock Musket==
Several Russian soldier fires [[Wheellock Musket]]s during the final battle.
Many Russian soldier fires [[Wheellock Musket]]s 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. Historically corect most popular firearm of the time was a [[matchlock musket]] which also appeared in this movie (see bellow), but much less videlly.
[[Image:Mayflower_gun.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Mayflower Wheellock Musket]]
[[Image:Mayflower_gun.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Mayflower Wheellock Musket]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Russian soldier cleans his musket.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 1.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Russian soldier cleans his musket.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 2.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Perfect view of the buttstock.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Lock is seen.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 3.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Wheellock is seen.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 4.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Russian soldiers readies his musket.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 4.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Russian soldiers aims his musket. Note, that he uses ''berdysh'' as bipode.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 5.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 5.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Close view of the whellock.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 6.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 6.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Russian soldiers aims.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 7.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Soldiers fires.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 7.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Soldiers fires.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 11.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Yermachyok ([[Nikolai Aparin]]) puts the dog on the wheel.]]


==Matchlock Musket==
==Matchlock Musket==
[[Matchlock Musket]] can be briefly seen in the hands of one Polish soldier. Another type of [[Matchlock Musket]]s was used by Russian man.
[[Matchlock Musket]] can be briefly seen in the hands of one Polish soldier. Another type of [[Matchlock Musket]]s was used by Russian man ([[Mikhail Gluzskiy]]). Swedish mercenaries were armed with the matchlock as well.
[[Image:MatchlockMusket.jpg|thumb|none|400px|European Matchlock musket.]]
[[Image:MatchlockMusket.jpg|thumb|none|400px|European Matchlock musket.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 2 1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Polish soldiers with the gun.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 2 1.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Polish soldiers with the gun.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 2 2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 2 2.jpg|thumb|none|501px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 2 3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 2 3.jpg|thumb|none|501px|The same soldier a few seconds later.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 2 5.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 2 5.jpg|thumb|none|501px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 1 1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Russian man fires his musket at Polish soldiers.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 1 1.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Russian man ([[Mikhail Gluzsky]]) aims his musket at Polish soldiers.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 1 2.jpg|thumb|none|501px|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.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 1 3.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Swedish mercenaries with the muskets at the background. Matches is seen]]


==Flintlock Musket==
==Charleville Musket==
Polish soldier fires [[Flintlock Musket]] to wounds Dmitry Pozharsky (Boris Livanov).
Polish soldier ([[Aleksandr Chistyakov]]) fires heavy anochronistic [[Charleville Musket]] to wounds Dmitry Pozharsky (Boris Livanov).
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 3 1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Polish soldier aims.]]
[[Image:Charleville.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Original Charleville Mle 1763 - .69 caliber]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 3 2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 3 1.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Polish soldier aims. Note the similar muzzle shape.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 3 3.jpg|thumb|none|501px|When Polish soldier fires fires, the flintlock doesn't move and the flame and smoke are produced by pyrotechnical charge in the muzzle.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 3 2.jpg|thumb|none|501px|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==
==Cannon==
Polish soldiers and Russian militiamen uses cannons.
Polish soldiers and Russian militiamen uses cannons.
[[Image:Naval cannon.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Naval cannon - 18th century]]
[[Image:Naval cannon.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Naval cannon - 18th century]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy Cannon 1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Polish commanders on the Moscow Cremlin near the cannons.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy Cannon 1.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Polish commanders on the Moscow Cremlin near the cannons.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy Cannon 2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy Cannon 2.jpg|thumb|none|501px|]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy Cannon 3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|russian soldiers near cannon.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy Cannon 3.jpg|thumb|none|501px|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.
[[Image:Minin i Pozharsky Bandolier 1.jpg|thumb|none|501px|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.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 2.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Bandolier can be seen.]]
[[Image:Minin i Pozharskiy musket 4 7.jpg|thumb|none|501px|Russian soldiers with the bandoliers.]]


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[[Category:Soviet Produced]]
[[Category:Vsevolod Pudovkin]]
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Latest revision as of 15:14, 18 May 2020


Minin and Pozharsky
(Minin i Pozharskiy)
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Original Russian Poster
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Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin
Mikhail Doller
Release Date 1939
Language Russian
Studio Mosfilm
Main Cast
Character Actor
Kuzma Minin Aleksandr Khanov
Dmitry Pozharsky Boris Livanov
Roman Boris Chirkov
Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz Anatoliy Goryunov
King Sigismund III of Poland Mikhail Astangov
Grigory Orlov Lev Sverdlin
Stepan Khoroshev Vladimir Moskvin
Prince Dmitry Troubetskoy Sergey Komarov
Ivan Zarutsky Yevgeniy Kaluzhsky
Pozharsky's wife Yelizaveta Kuzyurina



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.

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Brunswick wheellock pistol
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Schmidt (Lev Fenin) holds his pistol in the left hand.
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Schmidt (Lev Fenin) fires his pistol at the Russian soldier.
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Note the smoking barrel.

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. Historically corect most popular firearm of the time was a matchlock musket which also appeared in this movie (see bellow), but much less videlly.

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Mayflower Wheellock Musket
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Russian soldier cleans his musket.
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Perfect view of the buttstock.
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Wheellock is seen.
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Russian soldiers aims his musket. Note, that he uses berdysh as bipode.
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Close view of the whellock.
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Russian soldiers aims.
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Soldiers fires.
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Yermachyok (Nikolai Aparin) puts the dog on the wheel.

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.

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European Matchlock musket.
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Polish soldiers with the gun.
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The same soldier a few seconds later.
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Russian man (Mikhail Gluzsky) aims his musket at Polish soldiers.
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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.
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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).

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Original Charleville Mle 1763 - .69 caliber
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Polish soldier aims. Note the similar muzzle shape.
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When Polish soldier fires fires, the flintlock doesn't move and the flame and smoke are produced by pyrotechnical charge in the muzzle.
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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.

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Naval cannon - 18th century
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Polish commanders on the Moscow Cremlin near the cannons.
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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.

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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.
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Bandolier can be seen.
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Russian soldiers with the bandoliers.