Russia, Imperial. A Medal Commemorating The Creation Of Parish Schools, C.1909 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac La Melpomene (bronze gilt with

La Melpomene (bronze gilt with dark green

6 mm x 82 mm inclusive of its crown suspension

which in tense situations enabled him to hold his fire until his opponent had closed to point-blank range

with moderate loss of silver finish evident

Russia, Imperial. A Medal Commemorating The Creation Of Parish Schools, C.1909 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac La Melpomene (bronze gilt withConstructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with a pentagonal aluminum backplate and horizontal pinback, the obverse with raised leftward facing profiles of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsar Alexander III, circumscribed by names and titles in Russian Cyrillic, the reverse with a raised open book bearing the first eight letters of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, flanked by dates 1884 1909, topped by a Russian Othodox cross, the