Irkutsk, Russia - september 12, 2017- Irkutsk babr - a bizarre beast from the coat of arms of Irkutsk province looks like a ridiculous love child of a

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With the next approval, already by Alexander the Second, of the coat of arms of the Irkutsk province, a description of the coat of arms with the word "babr" instead of "tiger" came "from the spot" to the St. Petersburg heraldry, which is "in Irkutsk" is exactly the same. An unknown heraldic official in the description "corrected" "a" to "o", and it turned out "a beaver carrying a sable in its teeth". As such, the coat of arms of the province was most highly approved on July 5, 1878. No one noticed the inaccuracy, since the day of the approval of the coat of arms — July 5, 1878 — was unique in Russian heraldry: the tsar in Tsarskoye Selo simultaneously approved 46 coats of arms of the territories of the Russian Empire (35 provincial and 11 regional), that is, more than half of the coats of arms of all provinces that existed at that time. It should be noted that, despite this, artists have never painted a single image of the Irkutsk coat of arms with a beaver. Instead, the babra on the coat of arms was somewhat "robbed": a large, beaver-like tail and webbed hind legs were painted, creating a new mythical animal that can be conditionally called a "heraldic babr".

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Size: 5472px × 3648px
Location: Irkutsk, Russia
Photo credit: © Valeriy Gavrilyuk / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: bronze, head, russia, sculpture, Бронзовый, Голова, Россия, Скульптура