Watch List notes:

Set of 3 medals

1) Nicholas II. Red Cross medal for the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905.
Silver award medal. Unsigned. Soldered loop. 24 mm. 9,2 gr. R0. VF. Barac 624; Diakov 1407.2; Werlich 123.

Obverse with a raised red enamel cross.
Reverse the dates 1904-1905 in the centre, circumscribed by the inscription РУССКО-ЯПОНСКАЯ ВОЙНА Russo-Japanese War).
Mounted on a red ribbon.

This medal was instituted 17 March 1906. The Red Cross medal was awarded to all members of the Imperial Russian Society of the Red Cross as well as doctors, pharmacists, nurses, students, medics, and other individuals who served in field hospitals or otherwise attended the ill and wounded during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. The medals were struck by private companies, not by the official mints.

2) Nicholas II. 100th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812, 1912.
Light bronze commemorative medal. Unsigned. Integrated loop. 28 mm. 23,8 gr. (incl ribbon). R0. VF. Barac 632; Diakov 1527.3; Werlich 128.

Obverse with a right-facing bust of Alexander I.
Reverse with a seven-line inscription:

1812
СЛАВНЫЙ ГОДЪ
СЕЙ МИНУЛЪ,
НО НЕ ПРОЙДУТЪ
СОДѢЯННЫЕ ВЪ
НЕМЪ ПОДВИГИ
1912
(1812 this glorious year has passed but the deeds committed in this year will not be forgotten 1912).

Mounted with a ribbon; with two black outer lines and a red centerline.

This medal was instituted on 15 August 1912. Some 442.000 bronze medals were struck. This medal was awarded to all generals, commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, and enlisted men in the Russian army and navy who were serving on 26 August 1912 in military units and detachments of the navy which had participated in the War of 1812.
It was also awarded to all generals, commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, and enlisted men including pages and cadets who participated in the parades on the field of Borodino and near Moscow during the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the War of 1812. To civilian and military personnel who were official representatives at the ceremonies and the parades on the field of Borodino; and to all individuals who took part in the organization of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the War of 1812. It was also awarded to all direct descendants on the male side of generals, admirals, staff,
commissioned officers who had taken part in the War of 1812; and to all direct descendants, male or female, of Field Marshal Kutuzov.


c) Nicholas II. 300th anniversary of the rule of the Romanov dynasty, 1913.
Light bronze commemorative medal. Unsigned. Integrated loop. 28 mm. 22,7 gr. (incl ribbon). R0. VF.
Barac 633; Diakov 1548.3; Werlich 128.

Instituted 21 February 1913. More than 1,5 million bronze medals were struck between 1913 and 1914.
Obverse with the right-facing busts of Nicholas II and Mikhael Fyodorovich.
Reverse with the five-line inscription:

ВЪ ПАМЯТЬ
300-ЛѢТІЯ
ЦАРСТВОВАНІЯ
ДОМА РОМАНОВЫХЪ
1613-1913
(In memory of 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty 1613-1913).

Mounted on a faded ribbon of equal stripes white, orange and black; the state colours.

Lit: Barac4, 1494-1495; Diakov7, 261, 363; Werlich, 60, 62-63.