The White Guard (Belaya gvardiya): Difference between revisions
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Most infantry soldiers of White Guard, Red Army and nationalist Ukrainian troops are armed with [[Mosin Nagant M1891/30]] rifles, standing for original M1891s.
Most infantry soldiers of White Guard, Red Army and nationalist Ukrainian troops are armed with [[Mosin Nagant M1891/30]] rifles, standing for original M1891s.
[[File:Belaya gvardiya-Mosin-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|White soldiers carry M91/30 rifles with backwards-attached bayonets.]]
[[File:Belaya gvardiya-Mosin-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|White soldiers carry M91/30 rifles with backwards-attached bayonets. This is a exclusively cinematic practice; in reality such practice was banned by service manuals.]]
The White Guard (Belaya gvardiya) is a Russian 2012 screen adaptation of the same title novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. The mini-series is directed by Sergey Snezhkin and depicts the fate of the family of Turbins during the Russian Civil War in the city of Kiev.
The following weapons were used in the film The White Guard (Belaya gvardiya):
Poruchik (Lt.) Viktor Myshlaevskiy (Mikhail Porechenkov) owns a nickel plated Webley Bulldog revolver. Later the revolver is stolen by a criminal Volk (Evgeniy Efremov) and used by him to rob a richman Vasiliy Lisovich (Yuriy Itskov), a neighbor of Turbins.
Pistols
Mauser C96
Poruchik (Lt.) Viktor Myshlaevskiy (Mikhail Porechenkov) carries a Mauser C96 in typical wooden holster. A Mauser C96 is also seen in hands of nationalist Ukrainian troops Col. Kozyr-Leshko (Sergey Garmash).
Most infantry soldiers of White Guard, Red Army and nationalist Ukrainian troops are armed with Mosin Nagant M1891/30 rifles, standing for original M1891s.
Maxim M1910 machine guns are seen in several scenes. They are identified by smooth cooling jackets (though it's possible that these are visuially modified M1910/30s).
Maxim M1910/30
A Maxim M1910/30 machine gun with post-1941 top hatch on cooling jacket is mounted on Garford-Putilov Armoured Car (two other machine guns on the armoured car have smooth cooling jackets, like M1910s).
Maxim M1910/30 (visually modified to resemble Maxim MG08)
During the street fight Col. Feliks Nay-Turs (Aleksey Serebryakov) and Pvt. Nikolay Turbin (Nikolay Efremov) man a machine gun that looks mostly like a German Maxim MG08 but appears to be a Russian Maxim (most likely M1910/30). The detail that allows to identify the real model is a cartridge belt that is filled with rimmed cartridges, matching Russian 7.62x54R.
Degtyaryov DT (visually modified to resemble Lewis)
A Degtyaryov DT, visually modified to resemble Lewis Gun, is seen among other weapons when the unit of Col. Malyshev (Aleksey Guskov) readies for battle.
A very detailed replica of Garford-Putilov armoured car of WW1 era was built specially for the filming. Like the original vehicle, the movie armoured car is armed with a 76.2-mm cannon and three Maxim machine guns.
M1902/30 76.2-mm Field Cannon
76.2-mm field cannons are seen in several scenes. These are M1902/30s, standing for original M1902s.