Radziwill’s artillery from Slutck, 1707

Radziwill's coat of arms
granted in 1547

Slutck in Novogrodek palatinate in Lithuania was a “capital” of the Radziwill’s lands. In 1707 Russians evacuated all major strongholds in Lithuania to prevent it taking by Swedes. In Slutck they took 20 cannons:

-        4-pdr decorated by Radziwill’s title under mitre and a hawk

-        4-pdr decorated by Lithuanian coat of arms

-        8-pdr, made in 1613, decorated by Brandenburg’s coat of arms & Jan-Kazimir’s title

-        10-pdr, decorated by a whale

-        10-pdr, decorated by an old man 

-        2 10-pdr canons made in 1573 in Brandenburg

-        3 12-pdr canons made in 1635 with Lithuanian coat of arms & King Wladislaw’s title

-        12-pdr decorated by Adam & Eve

-        2 12-pdr canons with Brandenburg coat of arms & Georg-Wilhelm’ title, one with a drummer, the other with a flautist

-        12-pdr without decorations

-        12-pdr with a mist

-        15-pdr with a drummer

-        24-pdr, made in 1637, with Krzysztof Radziwill’s coat of arms & title & 2 eagles

-        27-pdr, made in 1637, with Jan Radziwill’s coat of arms & title

-        3-pdr with Lithuanian arms & letters C.D.S.

-        Howitzer made in 1563 with King Zigmund-August coat of arms & title