Imperial Russia Two other small medals

[Hundtorget]

These dont belong to the family and photos that i have asked about earlyer. I dont think they are wery rare but i havent found them in auktionlists or questions about them here. One of them is also in poor quality. But do you know anything of the purpose of these two medallions?

[Hundtorget]

The backsides.

[Treloarth]

See Wikepedia for details of

Aleksei Alekseevich Brusilov (Russian: Алексе́й Алексе́евич Бруси́лов) (August 19, 1853 ? March 17, 1926) was a Russian cavalry general most noted for the development of a military offensive tactic used in the Brusilov offensive of 1916. His war memoirs were translated into English and published in 1930 as A Soldier's Notebook, 1914?1918.

[Treloarth]

I was referring to the right hand obverse and left hand reverse. I don't recognise the other medallion though the Russian is easily translated.

[Hundtorget]

Thank you.

I understod enough to read out that it was general Brusilov. It is not made in high quality and is it a small medal sold to people who admired Brusilow and not given as award?

The other medallion: Has it a military background or is it something completley diffrent?

[Hundtorget]

The other medallion: Has it a military background or is it something completley diffrent?

[Guest Rick Research]

My computer cannot read Russian, so while I can

if it is legible

I can only go by what I can see on the very small, dark, and splotchy scans of that medal--

On the front is only the emperor's name (which I cannot read) with his title "Emperor of All the Russias."

On the back at top is

"To a school pupil" over the initials "V. U. Z." In the center under that is "in memory/as a souvenir" and along the bottom "of unforgettable gratitude."

So it is some sort of school commemorative of SOMETHING that is not specified by anything on the words.

[Hundtorget]

Thankyou!

Now i know that is was some type of award to scoolpupils 1896 and 4000 was made of it if i have understod you and the russian text right.

I will try to get a russian lexicon so i dont put out stupid questions here.

[Paul R]

Hello! Welcome to the GMIC. Very interesting thread here. I saw no stupid questions. Please ask away!