Five Problems of Bombardology. On the Study of Russian Artillery in the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries
The author highlights the problems of the study of Russian military history before Peter the Great, including that of the armaments. He points out the lack and scarcity of archival documents and material artefacts, as well as imprecise attribution of not numerous existing ammunition. At the same time the author points out the prospects of bombardology as a research field that might as well help to solve the aforementioned problems.