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** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** In the 1890s, Imperial Russia ...

When it was introduced in 1895, the Russian Nagant revolver was quite unique in a number of ways. It was a seven-shot handgun, produced in both double- and single-action versions, it was developed for ...

Dear Collector: We inherited this revolver from a relative who served in World War II. He may have gotten it in a trade with a Russian soldier, though we can’t confirm that, and since ammo’s not ...

While the Nagant revolver was not terrible when it was first adopted—it was on par with the Austrian Rast und Gasser M1898 and other European gate loading designs—it remained in the primary sidearm of ...

The imperial Russian government chose it for its army because it could gun down a horse from a 50-metre distance. At the beginning of 1917's revolution there were nearly one million Nagant revolvers ...