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Here is a collectible military-historical miniature - the very famous tin soldiers, which have always been and remain the object of desire and pride of the collections of all men, regardless of age. Previously, metal figurines were the property of kings and aristocracy. Metal soldiers became more accessible and mass-produced in the 18th century, when the technology of casting miniatures from tin and lead alloys became widespread. At first, tin figurines were quite plain, but by the end of the 18th century they become real works of art. Demand for them has always been high. In the 19th century, entire factories for the production of tin soldiers were opened in Germany, and then in other countries. The so-called becomes extremely popular. "Nuremberg miniature" - flat and semi-flat soldiers of the highest quality, completely copying the armies of the heads of the European powers of that time. France became the birthplace of voluminous pewter miniatures, and by the end of the 19th century, the British invented the method of hollow casting of soldiers, which made them lighter and cheaper. The popularity of the soldiers was extremely high. Who just did not play soldiers! Alexander I and Napoleon, Suvorov and Kutuzov, Walter Scott and Goethe, Conan Doyle and Stevenson, Anatole France and Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome and Herbert Wells, Alexander Benois and Andrei Bely had their own collections. The collection of the storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, who immortalized the steadfast tin soldier in his immortal tale, totaled 30,000 items. Winston Churchill had an impressive collection of over 1,500 soldiers. And the science fiction writer H. G. Wells even wrote the books "Game on the Floor" and "Little Wars", where he developed the first modern wargame - playing soldiers according to certain rules using a six-sided die. Today, the English queen is considered the largest collector of tin miniatures, which is not surprising - after all, this collection has been replenished for more than two centuries. There are many museums of soldiers in the world. The most famous, attracting collectors from all over the world, is the museum in Kulmbach (Germany), where hundreds of thousands of figurines are collected. In Germany, there is a museum of soldiers in Goslar. In Berlin, the exposition of the Egyptian Museum presents 38 dioramas, which, with the help of figurines, show visitors the life and life in Ancient Egypt. The Toy Museum in Nuremberg has a huge collection of tin soldiers and figurines. In the National Museum in England, the brave soldiers occupy a whole section. More than 60,000 soldiers of all times and peoples are kept in the Army Museum in Paris. In Spain, in 2007, the Iber Museum of Tin Soldiers was opened in Valencia, created on the basis of a private collection, in its 15 rooms it contains more than 100 thousand figurines of tin soldiers from all eras. In Russia, large collections of tin miniatures are located in St. Petersburg - the Hermitage, the Suvorov Museum. They contain valuable figurines of the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries, the work of famous European and domestic masters. Collection of the State Museum. A.V. Suvorov is considered one of the largest in Eastern Europe and has more than 60 thousand soldiers, it also contains the collections of the largest Soviet collectors of soldiers - A.I. Lyubimov, M.V. Lyushkovsky and L.L. Rakov, for whom the tin soldier was not just a toy, but a way of reconstructing historical battles. They made presentations on Russian and world military history and at the same time used figurines from their collections to recreate battles. According to those present, it was very accessible and visual. After all, it is very difficult to imagine a large-scale battle figuratively, and miniatures help to recreate this in the imagination of any person. When the famous director Sergei Bondarchuk started shooting battle scenes in his film "War and Peace", he faced incredible difficulties, which he simply could not imagine at first. Rehearsals would drag on indefinitely, all battles could turn into just a dump. What was to be done? Little tin soldiers came to the rescue. On a huge table, a drawing of battles was born, as they would now say in 3D, after which everything was transferred to nature, to the field. The director, after shooting the film, admitted that if it were not for the soldiers, it would hardly have been possible to film the huge mass of troops so clearly and clearly. The 20th century, with its new materials and technologies, gave rise to new varieties of soldiers - made of rubber, plastic, resin. But the pewter miniature still does not lose its attractiveness, and in terms of the quality of the elaboration of the smallest details, it simply has no equal. Accurate historical correspondence, excellent sculpting, high-quality material make these tin soldiers real works of art. Even just feeling the noble heaviness of these tin figures in your hand, you will feel the difference between plastic soldiers and a tin miniature.

This section presents only tin soldiers - a tin miniature on a scale of 1:32 (54 mm), but the appearance of tin figures on other scales is not excluded.

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Ancient Rome (26)
Скифы (10)
Vikings (23)
Medieval Russia (43)
Mongols (8)
Knights and Saracens (91)
Samurai and Ninja (47)
Cossacks (28)
Poles (7)
Strelets, musketeers, pikemen, pirates (33)
Napoleonic (12)
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Indians, cowboys (10)
WWI and the Civil War in Russia (35)
WWII (47)
Last USSR (9)
Fantasy and Games (19)