The medal commemorates the three-day Battle of Krasny. The obverse portrays Czar Alexander I in the guise of the ancient Russian hero Rodomysl. The reverse is an allegorical scene of the battle with lettering below indicating that the die was cut in 1834 by A. Lyalin from a design by Count Fedor Tolstoy. (Tolstoy was a famed Russian artist whose nickname was “the American.”) The medal is worth a few hundred dollars.
The battle was between the army of Napoleon and that of Alexander I during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia.
The medal is catalogued in Smirnov (1908) and Diakov (2008).
<< <i>The medal commemorates the three-day Battle of Krasny. The obverse portrays Czar Alexander I in the guise of the ancient Russian hero Rodomysl. The reverse is an allegorical scene of the battle with lettering below indicating that the die was cut in 1834 by A. Lyalin from a design by Count Fedor Tolstoy. (Tolstoy was a famed Russian artist whose nickname was �the American.�) The medal is worth a few hundred dollars.
The battle was between the army of Napoleon and that of Alexander I during Napoleon�s invasion of Russia.
The medal is catalogued in Smirnov (1908) and Diakov (2008). >>
I recognized Tolstoy's famous "Rodomysl" series design, but denga beat me to the description before I had a chance to check out my references.
Just a small correction - Rodomysl was an old Slavic pagan god. It was popular at that time to use elements of Roman history, but Tolstoy in his Rodomysl designs went back to the roots of Russian / Slavic mythology. Czar Alexander portrayed as Rodomysl was very patriotic, especially when you consider that both were wise and skilled diplomats, but who were not afraid to pick-up weapons when forced to defend their beliefs.
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But it looks like it might be of Russian origin
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RUSSIAN COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL
In memory of French invasion of Russia 1812
"Liberation of Berlin"
Bronze
Representation of TSAR ALEXANDER I (1777-1825), the Emperor of the Russian Empire (1801-1825)
Obverse is medallist A. Klepikov signed
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in the guise of the ancient Russian hero Rodomysl. The reverse is an allegorical scene of the battle
with lettering below indicating that the die was cut in 1834 by A. Lyalin from a design by Count Fedor
Tolstoy. (Tolstoy was a famed Russian artist whose nickname was “the American.”) The medal is worth
a few hundred dollars.
The battle was between the army of Napoleon and that of Alexander I during Napoleon’s invasion of
Russia.
The medal is catalogued in Smirnov (1908) and Diakov (2008).
<< <i>The medal commemorates the three-day Battle of Krasny. The obverse portrays Czar Alexander I
in the guise of the ancient Russian hero Rodomysl. The reverse is an allegorical scene of the battle
with lettering below indicating that the die was cut in 1834 by A. Lyalin from a design by Count Fedor
Tolstoy. (Tolstoy was a famed Russian artist whose nickname was �the American.�) The medal is worth
a few hundred dollars.
The battle was between the army of Napoleon and that of Alexander I during Napoleon�s invasion of
Russia.
The medal is catalogued in Smirnov (1908) and Diakov (2008). >>
I recognized Tolstoy's famous "Rodomysl" series design, but denga beat me to the description before I had a chance to check out my references.
Just a small correction - Rodomysl was an old Slavic pagan god. It was popular at that time to use elements of Roman history, but Tolstoy in his Rodomysl designs went back to the roots of Russian / Slavic mythology. Czar Alexander portrayed as Rodomysl was very patriotic, especially when you consider that both were wise and skilled diplomats, but who were not afraid to pick-up weapons when forced to defend their beliefs.
Neat medal
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