Russia, Imperial. An 1861 Commemorative Medal For The Liberation Of Peasants From Serfdom consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac maker marked GODET BERLIN

maker marked GODET BERLIN

42 mm x 126 mm

oxidation spots evident on the obverse and on the edge

Footnote: Frederick Lewis Henderson was born on April 29

Russia, Imperial. An 1861 Commemorative Medal For The Liberation Of Peasants From Serfdom consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac maker marked GODET BERLINConstructed 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