Battle Of A Thousand Swords Editorial Image

"Battle of a thousand swords" held in the Museum-reserve "Kolomenskoye" in Moscow. It became the collective image of the battles of the IX–XI century. Prince recruited the squad eager for war, people of the Rus, the Vikings, Balts and Finno-Ugric peoples, nomads and Byzantines to repel the armies of the Vikings. The participants of the battle used homemade weapons, armor and clothes made by medieval technology. In the center - defeated fighters. Photo by Elena Ostroumova