Russia, Imperial. An 1861 Commemorative Medal For The Liberation Of Peasants From Serfdom Auction Archive A German Animal Welfare Association

A German Animal Welfare Association Pin

those selected for the award and the annuity had given very fine service in most parts of the world over many years

Footnote: Although his later fame came about as a fighter pilot in the Imperial German Air Force (Luftstreitkräfte)

and the award of the Swords to the Knight’s Cross and Oak Leaves to fighter ace Colonel Dietrich Peltz

in turn meeting a bronze buckle set into the opposite end

Russia, Imperial. An 1861 Commemorative Medal For The Liberation Of Peasants From Serfdom Auction Archive A German Animal Welfare AssociationConstructed 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