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 marked "800" and half-moon

marked "800" and half-moon

along with printed copies of his Second World War Attestation Paper

consisting of a Cross Pattee with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed neusilber frame

1943 and was awarded to both partisans and civilians in peace and wartime for acts of bravery

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 marked "800" and half-moonConstructed of silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with a pentagonal bronze 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