Abstract:

This article examines the question of organization at the Tula arms factory in 1853 workshops. Identify the causes of its devices, as well as the product list is for all time (1853—1863.). The example of the manufacture of the prize weapons for the army troops and the guard shows the achieved mastery of Tula gunsmiths hunting in the trim samples.

Keywords: Tula arms plant, Model workshop, army competitions, prize arms, the Tula masters, rifles, fitting the Hanoverian, the Hessian, the sight, the artistic finishing of weapons