Well, ain't no that simple...
The same Lermontov, in one of the variants of his poem " The Poet" (1838), writes about bulat kindjal ".. creation of old Geurk". Also, in his diary, he mentioned bringing a kindjal to Geurk, who confirmed the "authorship". Thus, they must have been acquainted.
Geurk Elizarov ( Elizarashvili) did work with real wootz and made several known bulat ( wootz) blades. He was known to possess the secret of making wootz, and his son Kahraman was ordered to teach the secret to several Russian masters.
Most likely, both father and son used Indian wootz ingots for their best blades. In this, they did not differ from the most famous Iranian masters who also bought wootz ingots from the same source.
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