Live Auction 5961Important Russian Art
A RARE RUSSIAN GENERAL'S HELMET
Lot 323

A RARE RUSSIAN GENERAL'S HELMET

Closed26 November 2012

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GBP 18,750

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A RARE RUSSIAN GENERAL'S HELMET
The leather helmet with a brass Imperial double-headed eagle on the front, surmounted by white, orange and black feathers, the inside of the helmet stamped with the Russian letter 'B' surmounted by a crown

By repute, based on the Russian initial printed inside, Field Marshall Prince Alexander Ivanovich Bariatinski (1814/15-1879).

Specialist note

Prince Bariatinski was a colonel of the 80th Kabarda Infantry and later became Chief of this regiment between 1858 and 1859, before becoming Field Marshall. He was a conqueror of the Caucasus in 1859, who surrounded Shamil at Gunib.