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Period Russian Heraldry By Paul Wickenden of Thanet - There is a general understanding that heraldry (in the Western European sense) was not introduced to Russia until the time of Peter the Great, and thus is out of period. Furthermore, there has been a degree of skepticism about Eastern European equivalents (most notably the Polish tamga// or the Russian //znak//). However, in a book I recently acquired by A. G. Silaev, entitled //Istoki russkoi geraldiki// [Sources of Russian Heraldry] (Moscow: Grand, 2002), the author makes some convincing arguments in favor of an earlier appearance of distinctly //Western// heraldic tradition than previously argued... http:''www.goldschp.net/archive/rusheraldry.html
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