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It is possible to struggle against gentiles and it is possible to find an enemy in yourself, but in the name of what the just anger would not be directed, remember, that one wave of your sword can change world order
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Sharp sense
Sharp sense - the name of the new exhibition opening in the RME on February, 9th 2006.
The exhibition presents more than a hundred samples of cold steel weaponry from the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Curators of the Russian Museum of Ethnography have recreated in its traditional style "a guest room" which, inherently, represents an image of the sacral space emphasizing hospitality of the master of the house.. In the "guest room " the invited men who, in accordance with the tradition never leave their weapon, considering it as an integral part of their being, demonstrated their trust to the master of the house, by showing their swords and fixing them on specially allocated places on the walls of " the Guest room ".
In addition to fighting weapons, historical gifts are represented at the exhibition. In particular, two personal swords, given as a present to the Emperor Alexander III during his visit to the Caucasus.
Such gifts bear in themselves a symbolic sense, in this case, it is a sign that citizens first of all saw in their Emperor a soldier-patron capable of protecting His country.
Cold steel as a sacral object, was the unity of the form and the contents.
Engraved with the words from the Koran and advisory poems, stings of swords bore in themselves an aesthetic and religious functions, making parallels with a mythological image of the "Sword Ali "which restored the world justice.
It is possible to struggle against gentiles and it is possible to find an enemy in yourself, but in the name of what the just anger would not be directed, remember, that one wave of your sword can change world order.
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