measuring 45 mm (w) x 62 mm (h)
He began his military service on August 10th
He fought in the campaign against France
each stitched in place to a 120 mm (w) x 65 mm (h) red cotton patch)
circumscribed by the inscription DEN XXV OCTOBER MDCCCLXIX (the foundation date 25 October 1869)
Russia, Imperial. An Order Of St. Stanislaus In Gold, I Class Badge, By Ivan Keibel, C.1870 Archive measuring 45 mm (w) x( ). Instituted 7 May 1765 by Stanislaus II Augustus Pontiakowski. Reinstituted by Tsar Nicholas I in 1832. Of high quality manufacture by the workshop of Ivan Keibel, which was court purveyor from 1836 (until 1910), a superb ball tipped enamelled red Maltese Cross in Gold, adorning by delicate ribbed fans in the knee of each arm, the quadrants featuring detailed Romanov imperial Gold eagles, the obverse with a central enamelled white medallion