Since I can't provide Dani with an image, I decided to do some digging and post what I managed to scrap together from my family history and that of the sword. It is most likely quite inaccurate, thanks to my dad's "famous" history keeping skills.
So the sword was forged by request of a Vladimir (or something like it) for my family when we lived near Riga between 1560 to 1590. I'm unsure of exactly where it was forged, but it was somewhere near Novgorod, Moscow, or Riga. It was wielded a number of times, sometimes in anger, and sometimes purely for ceremony. I do know that it was used in the Polish-Muscovite War, most likely against the Pole. The Early to mid 1600s reveal very little, aside from a trade voyage to modern Basque, where my family spread slightly, and a second trip to the southern NL.
I have reason to believe it went with my kin to the Urals or perhaps even Siberia, and fought with Peter the Great. Then, it was damaged and went untouched till the 1800s. I think it was reforged and remade, with a few small decorative things added. In roughly 1808, it was wielded once again by my ancestors, I believe it was used during the Napoleonic Wars. 70 years later, it was used during the Russo-Turkish Wars. When the 1900s rolled around, it was used for a purely ceremonial purpose in the Russian Revolution, in which my grandfather's father led a small group of fellow Red Warriors. It was hidden north of Novgorod during the Five Year Plans and the many purges, but was reforged in secret during that same time and evacuated to the east with some family during WW2. It slowly made its way west in the Cold War, and eventually found itself to me in recent time.
Aight, some family time now. So, according to my dad, we descended from a tribe that lived near Riga in ancient times, which I don't believe. But I have confirmed that we did fight in the wars against the Mongols, and we visited Constaintiople and Jerusalem in the 1400s. The 1500s were a relatively violent time for my family, numerous deaths to murder as a overly violent feud over some land broke out. 1600s were peaceful, we started to branch out, I found a few graves bearing a name simiar to Protrovich in areas of western Italy, the Netherlands, and Basque. 1700s and 1800s were largely dominated by us working for a variety of trading groups and a few wars. 1900s is the most important for us, though, in my opinion.
In 1914, my grandfather's father enlisted in the Russian army and was stationed in a relatively peaceful sector for awhile. Somehow survived a long time, deserted in 1917 after being disillusioned by the war and joined the Communist Party in Novgorod soon after. During the Russian Revolution, he led a small band of soldiers in the defense of the city, married and had kids after it all. In 1928, he died after a fight with cancer. His kids, particularly his son (grandfather), we active in the Communist Party, and when the Poles were invaded happened, my grandfather joined the army and was stationed in Ukraine. When Barbossa happened, he was forced to flee east and eventually was sent north towards Leningrad for a few weeks, before returning south to fight from Stalingrad to Berlin.
Cold War was a boring time for us, just some little events like marriage, and stuff. I was born in the 90z (only 90z kids can do the z), and am currently typing this from my dad's vacation house along the banks of the Volga. I'll be back in two days.
Questions will be answered then.