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    That’s what I call “fervent zeal”


    JapanX

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    A friend of mine back in the 60s had a great-grandmother who was a maid in charge of putting out fresh linen every day in the Catherine Palace. I look at this fellow and all of his awards and I wonder what his job was and where.

    I am next to worthless when it comes to reading handwritten Russian. Does the inscription on the reverse either say or give a hint as to how he served the tsar?

    Thanks.

    Regards.

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    The back inscribed

    Please accept as a token of memory much-esteemed Artumiy Ivanovich Turgenov

    September 8, 1877

    K. Venitchenkof

    Photo was made in Kharkov.

    He looks like a local official ...

    Maybe a merchant?

    Cheers,

    Nick

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    Now that you are back on target with Zeal medal holders, please allow me to take you off course for just a minute: in your excellent archive of portraits, do you have a photo that could reasonably pass for Erast Petrovich Fandorin?

    Spasibo bol'shoi.

    Regards

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