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 Ion Postolache
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| General Description : | Copper cross clechée with decorated and enlarged points and with rays between the arms, a loop for suspension at the top. The Cross was instituted on 26 August 1856 to commemorate the end of the Crimean War and is known in the official documentation as the ‘Cross to the Clergy for the Eastern War’. It was intended to recognise the key role played by the Orthodox Church in giving religious and moral support and comfort to both front-line troops and their families and to those many civilians supporting the war effort. The Crimean War was fought by an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Ottoman Turkey against the Russian Empire with the aim of checking the expansion of the latter. Over one and a quarter million Russians were involved in combat and more than 100,000 became casualties to enemy action and disease. |
| Front Description : | the face with a central medallion bearing a life-size image of the face of the Medal for the (Crimean) War of 1853-1856 with the inter-twined crowned ciphers of Emperors Nicholas I and Alexander II surmounted by the radiant all-seeing eye and dated 1853-1854-1855-1856. |
| Back Description : | the reverse with a central medallion bearing a life-size image of the reverse of the Medal for the (Crimean) War of 1853-1856 inscribed ‘НА ТЯ ГОСРОДИ УПОВАХОМЪ, ДА НЕ ПОСТЬІДИМСЯ ВО ВЕКИ’ (We have set our hopes in Thee O Lord, Let us never be ashamed). |
| Height | 99.00 mm |
| Diameter | 58.00 mm |
| Material | Copper |
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