I think that talking about hand-to-hand combat as a system should start from the beginning. Unfortunately, I was not able to find out whether the combat system existed in the pre-revolutionary army. Indirect evidence of the absence of such is the passion of a significant part of the officers for English boxing or Japanese jiu-jitsu. But, if you had your own combat system, why adopt not the best foreign models? Nevertheless, attempts by individual enthusiasts to “revive” it from all sorts of “Goritsa”, “Ratnitsa”, “Trizn”, “Spasov”, “Combat hopaks”, etc. Unfortunately, they are just more or less successful remakes. They also remember the combat system of Prince Golitsyn, but I confess I’m not familiar with it, I don’t know what they’re eating with. And Boris Vasilyevich himself is now, to our grief, deceased, and you will no longer be interested. You can, of course, blame everything on the ups and downs of the revolution, they say, the emigrants left and the system was taken away, but do not forget that a huge number of officers went to serve in the Red Army and did not bring any combat systems with them. Didn't you want to, or because it simply wasn't there? No, it cannot be said that there was no hand-to-hand combat at all. Bayonet fighting did exist. But this is still a different technique. But in the police there was a system of self-defense. I offer you a reprint of a unique textbook on self-defense: “Self-Defense and Arrest”, published in Petrograd by order of the Petrograd mayor, Major General Prince A.N. Obolensky for police officials. The author of the book is “Professor of Athletics” Ivan Vladimirovich Lebedev, the famous “Uncle Vanya” - the organizer of many “French wrestling championships”. He personally, dressed in a policeman’s uniform, demonstrates the techniques in photographs in the book. Some techniques are quite convincing and do not look anachronistic at all.