Attribution:
Legend has it that this woodknife with a set is a trophy of the Poltava battle of 1709. Kаrl XII was known as an inveterate hunter and his monogram on the scabbard proves this set belonged to him. Most likely, it was found among the personal belongings of the King in the Sweden army camp, seized by the Russian troops. Throughout the whole 18^th c. it was in the Saint Petersburg Ryust-Kamera. During the reign of Empress Anna Ioanovna, the wooden knife was observed by the Sweden traveler Karl Reinhold Berg. He wrote, " There is also a big knife, that has an engraving XCII on its scabbard framing, and a big stick with tinned handgrip and tips, found on the battlefield near Poltava. The Russians call these things the hunter's knife and the crook of the walker, who served Karl XII." Similar hunting sets, composed of cutlass, fit for the dressing of a big animal, and several small knives, were popular in Germany in the 15^th-17^th cc., where they were called the woodknives and hirschfangers.

Attribution:
The museum inventory attributes the piece to the woodknife of 1934 without specifying the region. According to the inscription on the blade, the tool was made in Finland. Woodknife is a tool of general use destined to cut tree branches. It oriniates from the collection of K. E. Voroshilov. It may be a trophy of the Finnish War of 1939-1940.

Attribution:
In the List of 1885, this sample was recorded as the hunting knife of the 17^th century. According to its specific handle, this 'knife' is a baïonnette, i.e. the bayonet in the form of a dagger, the tapered handle of which was embedded outright into the muzzle of the weapon's barrel. The baïonnette is the earliest type of bayonet, which appeared in Western Europe in the middle of the 17^th century. Initially, they were used together with hunting rifles, while their usage with combat weapons had a sporadic character. France became the first country armed with the baïonnettes. In the 1680-1690s the baïonnettes were widespread in Europe, though, in the early 18^th сentury, they were replaced by bayonets with the elbow that were screwed on the rifle's muzzle and did not interfere with striking.