RUSSIAN IMPERIAL BADGE LIFE-GUARDS REGIMENT

Russian Imperial Badge of Life - Guards Semeonovsky Regiment for Officers in Bronze, 1908
Gold cross with palmated 5 - leaved edges covered in White enamel. On the horizontal rays of the cross are the gold cyphers of the Emperors Peter I and Nicholas II beneath gold Imperial crowns.
On the vertical ray of the cross, there is a sword with a gold hilt and a silver polished blade underneath.
ESTIMATE PRICE: $1000 - $1200.
REFERENCE: V.Kempf. Regimental Badges of Imperial Russia, item 1.1.21.20, R2, price in VF condition is $2.600 - please see the screenshot (CATALOGUE is selling on lot #1000).
In Moscow on auction #87 Coins and Medals in 2014 (lot 207) the same badge was estimated for $5300.
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WIKIPEDIA: the Semyonovsky Lifeguard Regiment was one of the two oldest guard regiments of the Imperial Russian Army. the other one was the Preobrazhensky Regiment. In 2013, it was recreated for the Russian Armed Forces as a rifle regiment, its name now becoming the 1st Semyonovsky Independent Rifle Regiment.
During World War I, the regiment was dispatched to the South-Western front as part of the 1st Guards Infantry Division; the reserve battalion, which remained in Petrograd, took part in the February Revolution in 1917. In March 1918, the Semyonovsky regiment returned from the front to Petrograd and was disbanded the same month. the 3rd Petrograd City Guard Regiment was created in its place. Many people enlisted in the regiment in order to avoid service in the Red Army itself. However, when Petrograd was subsequently threatened by White Russian forces, many units from Petrograd were sent to the front, including the 3rd Regiment. In late May 1919, a large portion of the regiment (more than 600 people) switched sides to join the White movement. All communists who were present at the time were shot.