fme_859489 - RUSSIA - ALEXANDER II Médaille, Mariage du Prince Alfred, duc d’Edimbourg et de la Grande Duchesse Maria Alexandrovna de Russie
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Type : Médaille, Mariage du Prince Alfred, duc d’Edimbourg et de la Grande Duchesse Maria Alexandrovna de Russie
Date: 1874
Metal : brass
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,34 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène, des taches d’oxydation et de l’usure sur les reliefs. Présence de rayures
Predigree :
Cette médaille provient de la collection Terisse
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Têtes de profil à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : DUKE / OF / EDINBURGH / AND / GRAND DUCHESS / MARIE / OF RUSSIA / MARRIED / JANV.R 1874.
Reverse description : Légende en 9 lignes.
Historical background
RUSSIA - ALEXANDER II
(2/03/1855-13/03/1881)
Alexander II Nikolaevich (29/04/1818-13/03/1881), son of Nicolas and Alexandra of Prussia, succeeded his father, ended the Crimean War and signed the Treaty of Paris. Reformer, he emancipates the serfs and tries to modernize the country. Autocrat, he crushed the Polish revolt of 1863. Politically, he favored pan-Slavism and fought effectively against Turkey, which he crushed in 1876-1878. The Treaty of San Stefano and the Congress of Berlin in 1878 marked Russia's resounding return to the international political scene. The Russians and Austro-Hungarians now control the Balkans. Alexander II perished by a bomb near the Mikhailovsky Palace in 1881.
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