his festival includes battles with up to 200 participants. Novotorzhsky Frontier is notable for its melees: Authentic medieval tournaments during which the knights keep fighting as long as they can keep standing.
This format used to be common for all Russian festivals, but over the last three years, the number of such events has shrunk to 5 or 6. Guests have a range of family activities and tournament shows to choose from. However, at Novotorzhsky Frontier, you can also see mass combat with heavily-armed knights who try to do maximum damage to one another with actual steel weapons.