Medal bar.
Interesting five-part medal bar.

1) For memory of the Crimean War 1853-1856.
Light bronze commemorative medal. Unsigned. Integrated loop. 28 mm. N1. Barac 558; Diakov 644.2; Werlich 94.

Obverse with the crowned monograms od Nicholas I and Alexander II., topped by the all-seeing eye and sunrays. Beneath the monograms the dates 1853-1854-1855-1856.
Reverse with the five-line inscription
НА ТЯ
ГОСПОДИ
УПОВАХОМЪ, ДА
НЕ ПОСТЫДИМСЯ
ВО ВѢКИ.
(God in you we trust, long may we not feel ashamed for centuries).

Mounted on the blue ribbon of the order of St. Vladimir.

This medal was instituted on 26 August 1856. In general, this medal was awarded to the participants of military actions during the period 1853 and 1856. As this medal has the ribbon of St. Vladimir, it was
awarded to military and civilian ranks of all departments who had not received the medal on the ribbons of St. George or St. Andrew and it was awarded to ranks of the 4th Regiment of the Ukrainian Cossack Cavalry.

Lit: Barac4, 1486; Diakov5, 67; Werlich, 49.
2) For defense of Sevastopol.
Silver award medal. Unsigned. Integrated loop. 28 mm. R1. Barac 546; Diakov 632.1; Werlich 92.

Obverse with the crowned monograms of Nicholas I and Alexander II.
The reverse with the four-line inscription under the all-seeing eye and sunrays:

СЪ 13 СЕНТЯБРЯ
1854
ПО 26 АВГУСТА
1855.
(From 13 September 1854 to 28 August 1855),

circumscribed by the inscription ЗА ЗАЩИТУ СЕВАСТОПОЛЯ (for defence of Sevastopol).Mounted on a red ribbon

This medal was instituted on 26 November 1855 and awarded to all generals, officers, non-commissioned officers and enlisted men who formed the Sevastopol garrison from 13 September 1854 to 28 August 1855, and also to military personnel situated north of Sevastopol; to civil servants of all government
departments on duty in the besieged city; and all residents of Sevastopol who served in hospitals or
otherwise participated in the defence of the city.

Lit: Barac4, 1485; Diakov5, 21; Werlich, 48.

3) 300th anniversary of the rule of the Romanov dynasty, 1913.
Light bronze commemorative medal. Unsigned. Integrated loop. 27,6 mm. R0. Barac 633; Diakov 1548.3; Werlich 128.

Obverse with the right-facing busts of Nicholas II and Mikhael Fyodorovich.
Reverse with the five-line inscription:

ВЪ ПАМЯТЬ
300-ЛѢТІЯ
ЦАРСТВОВАНІЯ
ДОМА РОМАНОВЫХЪ
1613-1913
(In memory of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty 1613-1913).

Mounted on a ribbon of equal stripes white, orange and black; the state colours.

This medal was instituted on 21 February 1913. More than 1,5 million bronze medals were struck between 1913 and 1914.

Lit: Barac4, 1495; Diakov7, 363; Werlich, 62-63.

4) For distinguished efforts in the general mobilization of 1914.
Light bronze commemorative medal. Unsigned. Integrated loop. 27,6 mm. R0. Barac 635; Diakov 1572.1; Werlich 131.

Obverse with a left-facing portrait of Nicholas II.
Reverse with a five-line inscription:

ЗА ТРУДЬІ
ПО ОТЛИНОМУ
ВЬІПОПНЕНІЮ ВСЕОБЩЕЙ
МОБИЛИЗАЦЇИ
1914 ГОДА
(For distinguished efforts in the general mobilization of 1914).

Mounted on the blue ribbon of the order of the White Eagle.

This medal was instituted on 12 February 1915 and awarded to those who helped in the preparation and execution of the mobilisation in 1914. From December 1915 it was also awarded for services in sports training of cadets. More than 50.000 light bronze medals were struck.

Lit: Barac4, 1495; Diakov7, 379; Werlich, 63-64.

5) Red Cross medal for the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905.
Silver award medal. Unsigned. Soldered loop. 28 mm. R0. Barac 623; Diakov 1407.2; Werlich 123.

Obverse with a raised red enamel cross.
Reverse the dates 1904-1905 in the center, circumscribed by the legend РУССКО-ЯПОНСКАЯ ВОЙНА Russo-Japanese War).
Mounted on the red ribbon of St. Alexander Nevsky.

This medal was instituted on 17 March 1906. This Red Cross medal was awarded to all members of the Imperial Russian Society of the Red Cross as well as doctors, pharmacists, nurses, students, medics, and other individuals who served in field hospitals or otherwise attended the ill and wounded during the Russo-Japanese War. The medals were struck in private companies, not in the official mints.

Lit: Barac4, 1494; Diakov7, 261; Werlich, 60.