1909 Russian Dragoon Officer Shahska. Not Bad.
 

Here is a Tsarist-era Dragoon Officer Shashka.

Zlatoust manufacture.

Interestingly has a Cyrillic 'G' carved on the grip by an early owner.

Very clean overall, not at all heavy in hand or scabbard.

I like taking clean photos in natural light. My one reservation in sharing pics as a reference, is that such pics may help fakers. On the other hand, they can serve as reference to buyers looking to buy wisely.

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Beautiful example, Jon. Total length ?

Thanks...I'll measure it once I get home. Oversight there..

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Blade: 77.5 cm (30.5 in.)
Overall length: 95 cm (37.5 in.)

Blade is a bit short for a dragoon. It would be safer to just label it an army officer's shashka.

Beautiful sword! Was the grip originally covered with leather or they were issued with plain wood like that?

Thank you for comments. Yes, I think they were issued with uncovered grips.

Might be horn and not wood?

Grips are usually wood, or on occasion some sort of early bakelite.

Grip
 

Yes the grip is correct I have seen original issue and or replacements also made out of wood when bake light would be broken or wood insert pieces in broken bake light handles , none of the Imperial Russian swords of this model had leather or wire wrapped handles I am aware of. Nice piece.