with the Russian army in Romania, around 1917.
''Did you ever hear of Russian Roulette?'. However, the story describes using a gun with one empty chamber out of six, instead of five empty chambers out of six: The term 'Russian roulette' was possibly first used in an eponymous 1937 short story by Georges Surdez. However, the term 'Russian roulette' does not appear in the story. In Mikhail Lermontov's 'The Fatalist' (1840), one of five novellas comprising his A Hero of Our Time, a minor character places a gun with an unknown number of bullets to his head, pulls the trigger and survives. The six-shot revolver uses 136 gram (or 2,099 grain) projectiles and claims to have “great accuracy” at ranges up to 50 meters. *Did you notice his enthusiastic excitement and happiness over getting that award?īecause most of the parts are handmade, the massive replica of the Remington model 1859 took almost 2,500 hours to build.
Ryszard Tobys of Poland holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest working revolver.
