RUSSIAN ARMY SEAL, NICHOLAS II ESCORT BATTALION

RUSSIAN ARMY SEAL, NICHOLAS II ESCORT BATTALION
RUSSIAN IMPERIAL ARMY BRONZE SEAL of NICHOLAS II ESCORT BATTALION, 1900
An Imperial Russian military bronze seal of the Escort of Nicholas II Battalion.
The stamp has Russian double-headed eagle in the center and "TREASURER OF THE 1st ESCORT BATTALION" around the rim. Ca. 1900.
Extremely rare item.
SIZE: D. 1 3/8 inches (3.5 cm).
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WIKIPEDIA: Nicholas II or Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov known in the Russian Orthodox Church as Saint Nicholas the Passion-Bearer was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. He gave limited support to the economic and political reforms promoted by top aides Sergei Witte and Pyotr Stolypin, but they faced too much aristocratic opposition to be fully effective. He supported modernization based on foreign loans and close ties with France. He resisted giving the new parliament (the Duma) major roles. He insisted he ruled by God's grace and was loath to negotiate or compromise. He was ridiculed as Nicholas the Bloody by his enemies due to the Khodynka Tragedy, anti-Semitic pogroms, Bloody Sunday, the violent suppression of the 1905 Russian Revolution, the repression of political opponents, and his perceived responsibility for defeat in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). His memory was reviled by Soviet historians as a weak and incompetent leader whose decisions led to military defeats and the deaths of millions of his subjects. In 1981, Nicholas, his wife, and their children were recognized as martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in New York City. After the fall of Communism, the remains of the imperial family were exhumed, identified and re-interred with an elaborate state and church ceremony in St. Petersburg on 17 July 1998. They were canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church as passion bearers.