In the 1890s, Imperial Russia embarked on an effort to modernize its military, adopting the M1891 Mosin-Nagant ... revolvers and other firearms for dozens of years before he came up with the Model ...

Nagant had worked with the Imperial Russians earlier, providing a feature that was incorporated in the Model 1891 Mosin ... his new revolver. They liked it so much, in fact, that in 1895 it ...

When it was introduced in 1895, the Russian Nagant revolver was ... with solid frame double action revolvers, previously worked with Captain Sergei Ivanovich Mosin of the Imperial Russian Army ...