Russia, Imperial. An 1861 Commemorative Medal For The Liberation Of Peasants From Serfdom Auction Archive WALTON 7th FUSILIERS

WALTON 7th FUSILIERS

The interior

Two soldiers from the 27th Infantry were killed for their rifles while outside of the camp boundaries

in turn meeting a bronze buckle set into the opposite end

(see Buller

Russia, Imperial. An 1861 Commemorative Medal For The Liberation Of Peasants From Serfdom Auction Archive WALTON 7th FUSILIERSConstructed of bronze, the obverse bearing a central raised depiction of Tsar Alexander II in the regalia of a medieval Russian warrior, his arms around a nobleman and peasant who are shaking hands, situated against a backdrop featuring agricultural imagery, topped by a date of 19 FEBRUARY 1861 in Cyrcillic, the reverse bearing a central raised Russian Orthodox cross overlaying a radiant background, circumscribed by a Cyrillic prayer, the obverse