Token "In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the peasants in 1911"

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Token "In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the peasants in 1911" : [the photo]. - (St. Petersburg: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, 2011). - 3 files: color. - On the photographs: Token "In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the peasants in 1911" (the reverse side, the front side, in a horizontal position). Badge in the form of a stamp shield with cut corners, concave sides and an extremity in the form of an inverted triangle with arched sides, with an eye. On the front side there is a convex profile of Emperor Alexander II and a convex inscription along the edges: "BM Alexander II and [m] perator and autocrat Vseross." On the reverse side there is a convex inscription "1861 on February 19, 1911", at the bottom - "50 years old". On the edges: on the left - "Liberation", on the right - "Peasant". In the center is an unfolded scroll with an inscribed inscription: "Embrace yourself with the baptismal sign of the Orthodox people and invite God's blessing to your free work with us" .

1. "Power and Society on the Way to Peasant Reform", exhibition (St. Petersburg, city, 2011) - Exhibits - Photographs. 2. Peasant Reform of 1861 (collection). 3. Power (collection). 4. Peasant Reform - Anniversaries - Russia - 1861 - 1911 - Photographs.

Token in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the peasants. 2.45 × 3.55 × 0.15 cm. Yellow metal. Stamping. Serial manufacturing. 1911 (?). Russia. The subject was exhibited at the exhibition "Power and Society on the Way to Peasant Reform", held in the Presidential Library in 2011. - In 1911, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the abolition of serfdom, private firms produced a large number of various shaped and metal commemorative tokens with inscriptions taken from the Manifesto on February 19, 1861. - The materials of the site of the Samara Regional Museum of Local History are used. P. V. Alabin, section "Exposition and Exhibitions", collection "Reform of 1861 in medals" (http://alabin.ru/alabina/exposure/collections/1861/). - The materials of the site of the State Historical-Architectural and Ethnographic Museum-Reserve "Kizhi", the author's project of NI Shilov "The determinant of museum subjects: a consolidated electronic subject-thematic catalog" (http://kizhi.karelia.ru/collection/opr / ).
Source of electronic copy: PB Location on map of the original: From private collection