"AMAZONS" AT THE MUSCOVITE COURT:PARTS OF A SADDLE AND THEIR COSTUMES
This article discusses the details of female horse riding in the Muscovite Russia in the second half of the 16<sup>th</sup> - first half of the 17<sup>th</sup> centuries. The study is primarily based on the historical narrative, which is considered as a complex of unique sources on the history of the court ceremonial of the Russian Middle Ages research. We have analyzed in this context both the notes already widely studied in Russian science and less well-known works. Summing up the results of the work, we noted that the women's horse guard of the Moscow queen was a momentary, but a bright phenomenon.