Martin Antonenko
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80. Day, February 20, 2018
Now the small brass ring around the lance handle (made of solder!) is mounted and painted ...:
I think, later on, hardly anyone will notice him looking at the bust - but I, the detail fetishist, would be bothered if he were not there ...
And now we come to the next detail of our Cossack - the famous "Nagaika" whip!
нагайка
The word "Nagaika", which today means "Cossack whip", derives from the original word "Nogaika", as in old times a whip was called, which was worn by riders of the Inner Asian tribe of Nogai.
Through the Russian vocal transliteration - "O" becomes "A" - the word "Nagaika" was born.
This is what such whips look like ...:
The handle is made of hardwood and about 40-45 cm long. The handle is wrapped in leather straps.
There is a noose on the handle that allows the whip to be worn on the wrist - usually on the punching hand.
At the lower part of the grip leather fringes are attached as ornaments and a kind of "fly swatter", which waws used like a modern riding crop, namely to drive the horse.
By means of an eyelet (made of leather or metal), the braided whip string is attached to the handle!
It is about 45 to 50 cm long and has at the bottom again a "fly swatter" or a bag.
The whip string can be attached with a small leather loop on the handle, then it is in everyday use not in the way!
Here a sketch of it...:
If we have a Close look at the Nagaika of this Caucasian Cossak...
...... then we notice that the whip cord is hanging down like a stick!
This is because Cossacks in the small leather bag at the bottom of the whip cord like to sew a lead ball - in the age of muzzle loaders usually a bullet!
Thus, the "Nagaika" from the pure whip to the - often deadly! - Melee weapon, because you could beat an opponent with it easily the skull!
As I said, the Nagaika was usually worn with a sling on the wrist ...:
Sometimes with "open" whip (dangerous for the wearer himself!) ...
... but usually with cord attached to the handle - as here ...:
The Nagaika and the flat saber blade were by the way tsarist times popular means against government unwanted protesters!
Unfortunately, this is also the case today - because after the Soviet era, there were only "folklore Cossacks" (they sang and danced for tourists!) - the Cossacks in Putin's Russia are slowly but surely regaining their role they had during the tsarist era:
As a riot control force!
In the run-up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the state reintroduced a so-called "Cossack Register", as it did during the Tsar's time!
"Registered" Cossacks are in the civil service or have to be constantly available when the state calls - and do not need to pay any taxes.
Their range of tasks is similar to that of the US National Guard!
Register Cossacks have their own badge ...
... and a special cap cockade, which differs from the Army cockades, the one of the "Inner Troops" (which are under the Ministry of the Interior) and the Judiciary (prison staff, etc.) ...:
Left - that's meanwhile again as in the tsar time! - the cockade for enlisted men, in the middle for non-commissioned officers and on the right the officer's cockade.
And the state often calls the Cossacks, as in 2014 to Sochi, as seen in the next pictures. They then have no batons, like the police, but their Nagaikas ...:
And since then the Nagaika is again used against its own people ...:
These operations against their own people are a very, very dark spot on the history of the Cossacks. And it seems that more dirt will be added in the future ...
From 1905 the following episode is handed down.
Don Cossacks have had a mission in St. Petersburg to disperse a demonstration ...:
Now they have saddled, fed and soaked, repaired their equipment and bawled in the dormitory of their barracks.
The Uriadnik (NCO of the service) makes the rounds - and abruptly stops in front of the bed of an already older Cossack.
"Where did you get that, you devil?" he asks.
The Cossack replies: "The picture of the old man here? A student gave me that and said that it was his grandfather."
"And why is it hanging here ...?" The uriadnik wants to know.
"Well - I hung it up because I like it so much, such a dignified old man in the Sunday state with a white beard ..."
The Cossack had hung a photo of Karl Marx over his bed! The printed socialist slogans did not tell him anything, he could not read ...
My friend Heinz has made me a beautiful Nagaika ...:
I really wanted to have a cord tied to the handle, because there is no such Detail at any other Cossack figure!
And if unique, then right!
I just primed the Nagaika - tomorrow I will paint it ...:
Then it will look similar like this...
Cheers
Now the small brass ring around the lance handle (made of solder!) is mounted and painted ...:
I think, later on, hardly anyone will notice him looking at the bust - but I, the detail fetishist, would be bothered if he were not there ...
And now we come to the next detail of our Cossack - the famous "Nagaika" whip!
нагайка
The word "Nagaika", which today means "Cossack whip", derives from the original word "Nogaika", as in old times a whip was called, which was worn by riders of the Inner Asian tribe of Nogai.
Through the Russian vocal transliteration - "O" becomes "A" - the word "Nagaika" was born.
This is what such whips look like ...:
The handle is made of hardwood and about 40-45 cm long. The handle is wrapped in leather straps.
There is a noose on the handle that allows the whip to be worn on the wrist - usually on the punching hand.
At the lower part of the grip leather fringes are attached as ornaments and a kind of "fly swatter", which waws used like a modern riding crop, namely to drive the horse.
By means of an eyelet (made of leather or metal), the braided whip string is attached to the handle!
It is about 45 to 50 cm long and has at the bottom again a "fly swatter" or a bag.
The whip string can be attached with a small leather loop on the handle, then it is in everyday use not in the way!
Here a sketch of it...:
If we have a Close look at the Nagaika of this Caucasian Cossak...
...... then we notice that the whip cord is hanging down like a stick!
This is because Cossacks in the small leather bag at the bottom of the whip cord like to sew a lead ball - in the age of muzzle loaders usually a bullet!
Thus, the "Nagaika" from the pure whip to the - often deadly! - Melee weapon, because you could beat an opponent with it easily the skull!
As I said, the Nagaika was usually worn with a sling on the wrist ...:
Sometimes with "open" whip (dangerous for the wearer himself!) ...
... but usually with cord attached to the handle - as here ...:
The Nagaika and the flat saber blade were by the way tsarist times popular means against government unwanted protesters!
Unfortunately, this is also the case today - because after the Soviet era, there were only "folklore Cossacks" (they sang and danced for tourists!) - the Cossacks in Putin's Russia are slowly but surely regaining their role they had during the tsarist era:
As a riot control force!
In the run-up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the state reintroduced a so-called "Cossack Register", as it did during the Tsar's time!
"Registered" Cossacks are in the civil service or have to be constantly available when the state calls - and do not need to pay any taxes.
Their range of tasks is similar to that of the US National Guard!
Register Cossacks have their own badge ...
... and a special cap cockade, which differs from the Army cockades, the one of the "Inner Troops" (which are under the Ministry of the Interior) and the Judiciary (prison staff, etc.) ...:
Left - that's meanwhile again as in the tsar time! - the cockade for enlisted men, in the middle for non-commissioned officers and on the right the officer's cockade.
And the state often calls the Cossacks, as in 2014 to Sochi, as seen in the next pictures. They then have no batons, like the police, but their Nagaikas ...:
And since then the Nagaika is again used against its own people ...:
These operations against their own people are a very, very dark spot on the history of the Cossacks. And it seems that more dirt will be added in the future ...
From 1905 the following episode is handed down.
Don Cossacks have had a mission in St. Petersburg to disperse a demonstration ...:
Now they have saddled, fed and soaked, repaired their equipment and bawled in the dormitory of their barracks.
The Uriadnik (NCO of the service) makes the rounds - and abruptly stops in front of the bed of an already older Cossack.
"Where did you get that, you devil?" he asks.
The Cossack replies: "The picture of the old man here? A student gave me that and said that it was his grandfather."
"And why is it hanging here ...?" The uriadnik wants to know.
"Well - I hung it up because I like it so much, such a dignified old man in the Sunday state with a white beard ..."
The Cossack had hung a photo of Karl Marx over his bed! The printed socialist slogans did not tell him anything, he could not read ...
My friend Heinz has made me a beautiful Nagaika ...:
I really wanted to have a cord tied to the handle, because there is no such Detail at any other Cossack figure!
And if unique, then right!
I just primed the Nagaika - tomorrow I will paint it ...:
Then it will look similar like this...
Cheers
