The Mosin-Nagant’s story begins with the Russian Empire. About a decade before the turn of the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire was quite literally on the hunt for a new service rifle to replace ...

Introduced in 1891, the Mosin-Nagant rifle has had an incredibly long run, and is still in service in some parts of the world. And, of course, it has had a second career as an incredibly inexpensive ...

Even now, well into the twenty-first century, the Mosin soldiers on. Recently, the Mosin was spotted in the hands of separatist forces in the Donbass region of Ukraine. One of the most widely used ...

World War II saw a de facto rematch between the Mauser and the Mosin-Nagant, but it was with new versions of each respective rifle. Following a trend that had begun with the British Army's Short ...

The second in a ten part podcast series on a History of the Easter Rising in 10 Objects discusses the Mosin-Nagant rifle from the Aud. Historian John Gibney discusses the Mosin-Nagant rifle from the ...