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The courageous hero Ataman Holovatyi stormed and took Berezan Island defended by the Turks. Impressed by the ataman’s valor, Prince Potemkin-Tavricheski awarded him for this feat the highest military decoration – the special personal Cross of St. George the Great Martyr. Deeply moved, the ataman pulled out his saber from the sheath and gave it to the supreme commander, showing that he can share the spoils of victory.

Victor’s sword is the symbol of King Harald Hardrada’s love for Princess Elizabeth, a beautiful daughter of Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise. The lovers could not tie their union by marriage, because Harald was too poor to become a relative to Yaroslav’s powerful kin. So, he set out to conquer the world and fought in Syria, Palestine and India until gained the great glory and substantial wealth. And then, he threw all that to the feet of his love. Do not fight for money and honors, fight for love!

Young hetman Mazepa became, by accident, a witness of an unsuccessful hunt. A furious wounded boar charged at a young girl. Without thinking, Mazepa pulled out a dagger and with a precise stab stopped the huge animal. Only after it was over he saw how beautiful the girl for whom he risked his life was. Her name was Marianna, and she played an outstanding role in his life. Mazepa’s dagger is a captivating story of risk, love and romance.

The story of a princess’s golden shoe or crystal slippers is a famous European legend about a poor girl whom the chance or betrothed blacksmith gave the happy moment of finding herself at the peak of bliss. To keep the wonderful dream, to not turn back and save the shoe for grandchildren, for it brings happiness.

On the hot summer of 1821 Alexander Pushkin challenged for duel the General Staff officer Zubov for his bad remarks about the gypsies with whom the poet wandered around. Zubov was to shoot first but missed, and Pushkin unloaded his pistol and told the second: ‘If there is no hatred in soul, let no bullet be in the barrel’.

When the Turkish fortress Hac?bey (present-day Odesa) fell, Ukrainian Cossacks hid all Turkish weapons in catacombs. The entrance to catacombs was blocked with a stone slab that had an engraved image of yatagan on it. The treasure had not been found till present time: the yatagan still guards the riches.

Bohdan Khmelnytskyi’s bulawa was made from the black rhinoceros horn and rare wood, bound by silver threads. Each of these materials serves as not only the symbol of success and power but also the oberih which prolongs the life of the bulawa’s owner. It’s the source of spiritual power and wisdom.

Long ago, a captured Turkish cannot stood by the Richelieu Monument in Odesa. Every day, the famous Odesa watchmaker Stern and an artilleryman would come to it. One would check the clock and the other would light up the wick. The shot of the cannon meant precise time and the opening of the city’s drinking establishments. If the cannot fired a shot, it was time to tip a shot.

Samuel Colt’s invention – six-round revolver – became the symbol of America. ‘God created men but Sam Colt made them equal’, the Americans say, meaning that freedom and independence need reliable protection. And this colt also gives confidence in inviolability.

The world’s most widely used assault rifle is an official weapon in armies of 50 countries of the world, personifying the era of cold war and ‘hot spots’. It’s easily recognizable by everyone: him who attacks and him who defends, him who ‘for friendship’ and him who’s always ready to fight. As for us, we want the bursts from this rifle shooting right inside the drinking glasses!