Item number: M185-7

Year: AD 1913

Material: Bronze

Provenance: Private Collector, USA, 2024

This is a commemorative medal issued on February 21, AD 1913, by Tsar Nicholas II to mark the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Romanov dynasty. The medal was produced in two versions: silver and bronze. The present specimen is the miniature bronze version.

The medal is circular in shape. The obverse features the busts of the 18th and final Tsar of the Romanov dynasty, Nicholas II, in military uniform, alongside Mikhail I, the founder of the dynasty, wearing the Monomakh Cap.

The reverse bears a five-line Russian inscription: “ВЪ ПАМЯТЬ 300-ЛѢТІЯ ЦАРСТВОВАНІЯ ДОМА РОМАНОВЫХЪ 1613–1913” (In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of the Reign of the House of Romanov, 1613–1913). The medal is suspended from a ribbon in the black, yellow, and white colours of the Romanov imperial standard.

In February AD 1913, Nicholas II inaugurated the grand tricentennial celebrations of the Romanov dynasty from the capital, Saint Petersburg. The Tsar first received distinguished guests from both within the empire and abroad, and later in May travelled to Moscow to retrace the historic pilgrimage route taken by Mikhail I when he was elected Tsar by the Assembly of the Nobility.

In AD 1613, the 16-year-old Mikhail I, under pressure from the nobility, was reluctantly crowned to inherit the tsarist throne left behind by the Rurik dynasty. At the time, the unwilling young tsar could not have imagined that the Romanov dynasty would grow into a vast empire spanning the Eurasian continent. Likewise, when Nicholas II celebrated the dynasty’s 300th anniversary in AD 1913, he could not have foreseen that only four years later, war and revolution would bring the Romanov reign to an end.

物件編號: M185-7

年代: 公元 1913 年

材質: 青銅

來源: 美國私人收藏 2024

這是一枚頒布於公元1913年2月21日，時任俄國沙皇的尼古拉二世為了慶祝羅曼諾夫王朝開創三百周年紀念發行的紀念獎章。獎章總共有銀和青銅兩種材質，該收藏為迷你版的銅質獎章。

獎章形狀為圓形，正面打印羅曼諾夫王朝的第十八任，也是末代沙皇尼古拉二世的戎裝像，和頭戴莫諾馬赫王冠的王朝開創者米哈伊爾一世。獎章背面打印五行俄文銘文「ВЪ ПАМЯТЬ 300-ЛѢТІЯ ЦАРСТВОВАНІЯ ДОМА РОМАНОВЫХЪ 1613-1913」(紀念羅曼諾夫王朝開創三百周年 1613至1913)。獎章上緣銜接以羅曼諾夫王室旗幟為配色的黑黃白綬帶。

公元1913年2月，尼古拉二世從首都聖彼得堡展開盛大的三百周年紀念活動。沙皇先是接見來自國內外的貴賓，更在5月前往莫斯科重溫米哈伊爾一世被貴族議會推舉為沙皇的朝聖路線。

公元1613年，年僅16歲的米哈伊爾一世在貴族的壓力下，被迫登基留里克王朝留下的沙皇寶座。彼時不情願的米哈伊爾一世將想像不到，羅曼諾夫王朝將成長為橫跨歐亞大陸的大帝國。正如同尼古拉二世在公元1913年慶祝王朝三百周年之際，將想像不到在短短四年之後，王朝將因為戰爭和革命劃上休止符。