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Wed 20 Nov, 2013 9:08 am
A google image search shows that photo in a couple different places.....the largest size (so perhaps the "original"?) is here:
http://xxx.xxx/2011/03/23/klinkovoe-oruzhie-evropy.html
it has a caption which google translates as Badler or Bedzheler (Fr. Badelair)- a wide, heavy saber. Also known as kordelach.
it also appears on this website:
http://totenturm.rusff.ru/viewtopic.php?id=453 with an almost identical caption.
I can't read the Russian myself, so that's as much as I can contribute.