Russia, Imperial. An 1899 Table Medal For The Franco-Russian Exhibition In St. Petersburg Archive The cap is fully surrounded

The cap is fully surrounded by fold-down sidewalls

Fascist symbols including fasces

the obverse bearing a raised and leftward-facing profile of Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst

and the remnants of a crude attempt to repaint the scabbard

He volunteered for service in the year 1934

Russia, Imperial. An 1899 Table Medal For The Franco-Russian Exhibition In St. Petersburg Archive The cap is fully surroundedConstructed of bronze with enamels, the obverse bearing two raised female figures symbolizing Marianne (France) and Mother Russia, flanked on the left by a red enameled Geneva Cross and on the right by a raised depiction of St. Isaacs Cathedral, set above an inscription of ST. PETERSBOURG and a date of 1899 in Roman numerals, and below an inscription of EXPOSITION FRANCO RUSSE, the reverse bearing a Russian Cyrillic inscription similarly identifying