Internationale Orden & Militaria - A82

| 79 guns. The cadre consisted of, among others, Cossack divisions from the Ural and Transbaikal regions, a Caucasian cavalry brigade, the 4th Don Cossack Division and the Primorsky Dragoon Regiment. Vladimir Vasilievitch Panpushko, participant in the China Campaign 1900-01, the Russo-Japanese War 1904-05 and World War I, Lieuten- ant Colonel (1904), Colonel (1908). Commander of the Zaamursky Mounted Artillery Mountain Division, the 85th Artillery Brigade and the 2nd Zaamursky Artillery Brigade (1915). From 1916 onwards Major General, from 1918 onwards in the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. Awards: Order of St. Anna 2nd Class (1907), Order of St. Vladimir 4th Class (1908), Order of St. Vladimir 3rd Class (1912), Swords to the Order of St. Vladimir 3rd Class (1915), Swords to the Order of St. Anna 2nd Class (1916), Order of St.Stanislaus 1st Class with Swords (1916), Swords to the Order of St. Vladimir 4th Class with Ribbon (1917). 247853 II € 2.500 2. Kl. (1907), St. Wladimir-Orden 4. Kl. (1908), St. Wladimir-Orden 3. Kl. (1912), Schwerter zum St. Wladimir-Orden 3. Kl. (1915), Schwerter zum St. Anna-Orden 2. Kl. (1916), St. Stanislaus-Orden 1. Kl. mit Schwertern (1916), Schwerter zum St. Wladimir-Orden 4. Kl. mit Band (1917). A significant Russian jetton of the cavalry formation of Adjutant General Mishchenko, awarded to Major General Vladimir Vasilievitch Panpushko (1866 - ?), circa 1905-10 Silver, partially gilded, enamelled, applied tsar’s cypher of gold. On the reverse engraved wearer's name (tr.) “Colonel V.V. Panpushko”. Dimensions 46.7 x 34.7 mm, weight 22 g. Enamel partly repaired. C f . R. Werlich, Jettons of Imperial Russia. Washington, 1985, p. 29, fig. J-45. Excellent quality, very rare. The cavalry formation of Adjutant General Mishchenko was estab- lished during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 and comprised some 75 squadrons with circa 7,000 soldiers, 22 cannons and four machine 5085