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RUSSIA: EMPIRE: Peter I, the Great, 1682-1721, AE medal (41.83g), 1708, AU

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RUSSIA: EMPIRE: Peter I, the Great, 1682-1721, AE medal (41.83g), 1708, AU
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RUSSIA: EMPIRE: Peter I, the Great, 1682-1721, AE medal (41.83g), 1708, Diakov-25.11, 46mm bronze medal by J. Kettel for the Battle of Lesnaya; PETRVS ALEXII FIL D G RVSS IMP REX SIB ASTR CAS M DVX MOSC around Peter I, holding a field marshal's baton, depicted in armor, a cloak, and a laurel wreath, riding a galloping horse and trampling Swedish trophies; the medallist's initial 'K' to the left above the truncation; in exergue REDITE CERTAMINE / VICTOR (Returns from battle as a victor) // GLORISA VICTORIA AD LEESNAM / 28 SEPT S V / LEECNO in chronogram above a backdrop of the battle plan; Victory, portrayed as a winged figure, sits atop the trophies on the right holding a trumpet and a laurel wreath and in front of her is a shield inscribed: CAPVT / EST / A CORPORE / LONGE / OVID (The head is far from the body); in exergue: DEVICTO LOWENHAVPT / CAESIS AVT XVI / MILL SVEC, AU. The Battle of Lesnaya was one of the major battles of the Great Northern War. It took place on October 9, 1708 between a Russian army commanded by Peter I of Russia, Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn, Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov, Rudolph Felix Bauer and Nikolai Grigorovitj von Werden and a Swedish army being commanded by Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt and Berndt Otto Stackelberg, at the village of Lesnaya, located close to the border between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian Empire. The Swedes were escorting a supply column of more than 4,500 wagons for their main army in Ukraine. The battle ended in a decisive Russian victory.