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An Official Badge “Track Guard,” 1st Vilnius District of Railways and Communications.
Dimensions: 10.5 x 9.4 cm

Starting price: 200€
Estimate: 250-400€

“Soviet Railway USSR Emblem Plaque

A Soviet cast-metal railway emblem plaque featuring the abbreviation “CCCP” above the state emblem with hammer and sickle over a globe, red star, wheat sheaves, draped banners, and the slogan “Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!”. The lower section is formed with crossed railway tools, reinforcing its association with the Soviet railway system.

Executed in cast metal and retaining its original painted surface, the plaque preserves polychrome decoration in red, blue, gold, white, and black. The reverse is plain, with mounting holes for attachment.

Material: painted cast metal
Dimensions: 37.5 × 26.5 cm
Weight: 3917 g

Condition: wear consistent with age and use, including paint losses, abrasions, oxidation and corrosion to the reverse, and minor edge wear visible in the photographs. Original paint. Sold as viewed.”

Starting price: 250€
Estimate: 300-350€
Hammer Price: Not sold

A Badge “Forest Guard of the Udel Department”. Russia, second half of the 19th century. Bronze.
Dimensions: 8.2 x 9.7 cm.

Starting price: 200€
Estimate: 250-400€

Anatoly Nikiforovich Yar-Kravchenko (1911–1983)
Gorky Reading the Fairy Tale “The Girl and Death” to Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov and Kliment Voroshilov
Soviet Union, 1940s–early 1950s
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 195 × 150 cm

A large Soviet historical composition after Anatoly Yar-Kravchenko’s well-known painting, depicting Maxim Gorky seated at a table and reading his fairy tale The Girl and Death to Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov and Kliment Voroshilov. The scene refers to a famous episode of 11 September 1931, when Stalin visited Gorky and later wrote his remark that the tale was “stronger than Goethe’s Faust,” as love conquers death.

The work belongs to the tradition of Soviet Socialist Realist painting, combining literary history with official political iconography. Yar-Kravchenko’s composition was widely known in the Soviet period and exists in museum versions, including a large canvas in the Russian Museum.

Starting price: 500€
Estimate: 750-1000€
Hammer Price: Not sold

A Russian badge of the “Life Guards of the Pavlovsky regiment”. Bronze, remnants of gilding. Petersburg, the end of the 19th century. Dimensions: 35 x 35 mm.

Starting price: 250€
Estimate: 300-400€

Ekaterina Ridievskaya, after Rembrandt van Rijn – Copy of “Portrait of a Polish Nobleman”

Signed in Cyrillic and dated 1849.
Oil on canvas.
Dimensions without frame: 46 × 38 cm.

A 19th-century copy after Rembrandt’s “Portrait of a Polish Nobleman,” depicting a richly dressed figure in a fur hat, holding a scroll. Signed in Cyrillic Ekaterina Ridievskaya and dated 1849.

Presented in a gilt ornamental frame.

Condition: craquelure, surface wear, and age-related frame wear.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3000€
Hammer Price: Not sold

A Russian wooden box for a revolver or pistol from the Crimean War period, dated 1854. Of historical significance, this box with a pistol or revolver was presented by Russian Duke Sergey Mikhailovich Golitzin to Robert Samson during his visit to the Tula rifle factory. The box has a plate with presentation text in German, since Robert Samson was a Baltic German noble from modern day Estonia, in 1854, part of the Russian Empire. It is very likely that he was a relative of Claudius Hermann von Samson-Himmelstjerna, Russian general and the director of the Tula factory. The duke S.M. Golitzin was a Active Privy Councillor, 1st class, the second person after the Emperor of Russia. The box shows signs of use, and the interior is missing.
Dimensions: 17 x 37.5 x 6.5 cm.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3000€