M1856 six-line rifle musket
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The M1856 rifle, also known as the six-line rifled musket, is a Russian caplock muzzle-loading rifle that was developed in 1856.
Russian soldiers storming fortifications during the Siege of Ghunib. The Russian soldiers are depicted with the M1856 six-line rifle musket. The M1856 can be identified by the caplock mechanism.
Battle of Uzynagash. October, 1860. One of the battles where the M1856 rifle musket was used.
A battle from the January Uprising. The men are depicted with the M1856 rifle musket. It can be identified by the caplock mechanism.
M1867 Russian Krnka
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The M1867 Russian Krnka was a breech loading conversion of the muzzle-loading Model 1857 Six Line rifle musket designed by Austro-Hungarian arms maker, Sylvester Krnka.
M1856 six-line rifle musket
…would later be recycled and converted into breechloading rifles including the Gillet-Trummer rifle, the Terry-Norman rifle, the Carle rifle, and the Krnka rifle. During the Crimean War the majority of Russian infantry was armed with smoothbore muskets, M1808, M1828/44, and M1845 Tula. The smoothbore muskets…
The design of the rifle
Krnka 6-Line Cartridge
20mm Gana-Krnka rifle conversion in Tula museum
Krnka rifles in a camp during the Russo-Turkish War