Catherine II. Capture of Prague 24 Oktober 1794.
Gilt copper award medal. Unsigned. Integrated loop. 47 x 49 mm. 15,7 gr. Some dents and a crack in the lower arm of the cross, otherwise VF.

Obverse with a framed four-line inscription ЗА | ТРУДЫ | И | ХРАБРОСТЬ (for efforts and bravery).
Reverse with a framed three-line inscription ПРАГА ВЗЯТА | ОКТЯБРЯ 24 |1794 (Praga is taken on October 24, 1794)

This medal is probably an old private manufacture, maybe to replace a medal lost. It differs from the model Diakov 235.1/Borna 72 as the top beam with eyelet is rounded. The original medal was instituted on
1 January 1795 and awarded to officers who had participated in the Polish campaign of 1794 and the
battle of Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, but who were not eligible for the order of Saint George or Saint
Vladimir.

Lit: Barac4, 1452; Diakov2, 242. Werlich, 35-36.