A commemorative medallion made in the allegorical Greco-Roman fashion and depicting Alexander I on horseback accompanied by figures signifying glory. Following his domestic victory over Napoleon, Alexander I began a counter-attack which ended in the entry of Russian troops into Paris and the city's capture. Victorious Russian armies had never before moved so deeply into Europe, and the European cultural and political experience now revealed itself to the aristocratic intelligentsia in an entirely different way.

Medallion from the series
Events of the Patriotic War of 1812.
F.P. Tolstoy (1783-1873), 1821.

Copy. Plaster cast.
Diam. 7 3/4 in. (20 cm).