Wagon - a winter indoor crew on runners . Wagons, as a rule, were smaller than ordinary carriages , with carefully sealed openings, so it was warm and sometimes hot to ride in a wagon even in severe frost. The windows were made very small, often narrow, which made the carriage darker than the carriage. The carts went out of use in the middle of the 19th century.
According to Olearius , in a 17th-century Moscow state, sledding was considered more honorable than riding on wheels [1] . In solemn occasions, sledges were also used in summer, especially by clergy. The description of the cart presented by Boris Godunov to his daughter’s fiancé has been preserved:
A cart of 6 gray horses, harnesses on them are wormy, the cart has silver-plated iron, is covered with azure morocco, and it is studded with camouflage; the pillows in it are azure and worm, and on the sides it is painted in gold and various colors; wheels and drawbar are painted.
Some of the historical carts used by members of the Romanov dynasty are kept in the Armory (formerly at the Stable Museum ). Among them is the coronation cart (“winter line”) by Elizabeth Petrovna , which is equipped with silver braziers with coal for heating [2] .
At high speeds, carriages often capsized [3] , creating a threat to the health of passengers. For example, the cart, in which governor P.P. Anosov followed Siberia in 1851, with his adjutant, drove into a snowdrift and capsized on one side. Anosov fell out of the open doors into a snowdrift, his adjutant fell on him, and both of them were crushed by their suitcases. Under this weight they lay for several hours until they guessed to send people and horses from Omsk to search for them.
Notes
- ↑ M.I. Pylyaev . Wonderful cranks and originals
- ↑ Moscow Kremlin Museums: WEAPON CHAMBER
- ↑ A typical accident of this kind is described in the book of S. T. Aksakov, " Childhood of Bagrov the grandson ."