STOLEN RUSSIAN MEDAL, A REPORT FROM 1848

(From Russkii Invalid, Year 35, No. 114 (Tuesday, 25 March 1848), pg. 456.)

GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCEMENT – The Commander of the Kronstadt Naval Penal Companies announces that on 5 February of this year Non-Commissioned Officer Gavrilo IEVLEV, released into retirement, left the home for the insane called “All Those Who Grieve” [dom uma lishennykh, nazyvaemyi vsekh skorbyashchikh v S.-Peterburge] , and still some 3 miles from St. Petersburg, got off his sleigh to perform a necessity. At that time the driver, a peasant unknown to him, struck the horse and drove forward, carrying a sack in the sleigh that held Ievlev's possessions, including pieces of clothing, his passport, issued by the above companies on 20 January 1846 under No. 80, and a St. Anne medal No. 363270. If anyone is found with this passport or medal, that person is to be taken to appear before the nearest government authorities.

(Translated by Mark Conrad, 2007.)

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LOST RUSSIAN MEDALS, A REPORT FROM 1853

(From Podol'skiya Gubernsiya Vedomosti, No. 6 (Saturday, 7 February 1853), pgs. 41-42.)

MEDALS FOUND - Mariya Lopatyuchka, the widow of a retired soldier, turned in four military decorations she found in the street, of which three are silver medals. The first is for the 1828-1829 Turkish War, the second for 1812, the third for the capture of Paris in 1814, and the fourth is a gold cross of St. Stanislav 3rd Class for 1831. Inquiries in the town of Balta have not discovered the owner of these medals.

The Podolia Provincial Administration hereby publishes this information consequent to a report by the Balta town police.

(Translated by Mark Conrad, 1998, from microfilm held at Harvard University.)

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