Elizabeth. Victory at Kunersdorf 1759.
Silver commemorative medal. Signed by T. Ivanov. 38,5 x 39,5 mm. 25,5 gr. R2. Traces of a missing loop, otherwise VF. Barac 46; Diakov 105.1; Werlich 46.

Obverse with a crowned, and draped, bust of Elizabeth. The inscription Б·М·ЕЛИСАВЕТЪ·I·IМПЕРАТ·IСАМОД·ВСЕРОС· (by God’s grace Elizabeth I Empress and autocrat of all Russia). Under the bust, the signature ТІМОѲЕЙ · Ї · F (made by Timofey I.) of the engraver T. Ivanov.
Reverse with a warrior in ancient Roman dress holding a banner with the Russian Imperial double-headed eagle and spear on the battlefield littered with casualties, broken canon, drum, and other weapons. In the background a city and a fleeing enemy. Beneath the left foot of the warrior is a jug from which water spills with the inscription Р. ОДЕР (the river Oder). Above the warrior the inscription ПОБЕДИТЕЛЮ (to the victor), in exergue the legend НАД ПРУСАКАМИ АВГ 1 Д 1759 (over the Prussians Aug 1 year 1759). On the lower left of the scenery, are the letters T · I, also of T. Ivanov.
With a size of 38,5 x 39,5 mm, the medal is smaller than the 44 mm mentioned in Diakov.

The medal was awarded to Russian soldiers who took part in the Battle of Kunersdorf on 12 August 1759 (1 August O.S.), near Kunersdorf (modern-day Kunowice), immediately east of Frankfurt an der Oder
(the second-largest city in Prussia). The Battle of Kunersdorf on the Oder was one of Russia’s greatest victories in the Seven Years' War of 1756-1763. A joint Russo-Austrian army commanded by the Russian
commander Pyotr Saltykov and the Austrian commander Ernst Gideon von Laudon with a strenght of 41,000 Russians and 18,500 Austrians defeated Frederick the Great's army of 50,900 Prussians.

Lit: Barac4, 1447; Diakov2, 77-78; Duffy, 108-112; Werlich 31.