single-edge blade becoming double-edged at the spear-point, the blade etched and gilt against a blued ground with the figure of Athena in a horse-drawn chariot flanked by the Imperial Cypher of Alexander I on one side and the Imperial double-headed eagle on the other, the reverse etched with an image of hussars after a battle, brass hit comprising two bars of oval section swept-up to join the knuckle guard,  leather-covered grip bound with braided brass wire, length: 97 cm. (38 1/8 in.), side of blade signed and dated by the engraver Ivan Bushuev, Zlatoust