What do the medieval wagon, upholstered in leather, the elegant crew of the 19th century and the modern airplane have in common? All of them are different types of vehicles. For millennia, mankind has invented new and improved the modes of transport already known to him. One of them is the arba.
What encyclopedias say
Etymological and explanatory dictionaries refer us to the Turkic peoples. It was from them that the Europeans borrowed the word "arba." This happened so long ago that today it has become an integral part of many languages, in particular Russian. But what did Tatars, Tajiks or Turks mean by him?
It turns out that they called the high two-wheeled cart, and the driver who drove it - the arbakesh. It is noteworthy that such wagons had wheels without spokes. With a similar design, they resembled chariots used in Asia in the second millennium BC.
Most often, donkeys or oxen were harnessed to the arba. Perhaps this carriage was met by Pushkin in the Caucasus in 1829, traveling to Arzrum. On this arba, the body of Alexander Griboedov, who died in Persia, was transported to Tiflis.
