IMPERIAL RUSSIAN GENERAL SKOBELEV'S AWARD SHASHKA SWORD

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This is absolutely unique,never seen befor online ,antique Imperial Russian Shashka sword belonged to the famous Russian Major-General Mikhail Skobelev. It has been awarded to hem by Alexander II of Russia for gallantry in the final battle in Shipka city in Bulgaria,with the Ottoman Imperial army,leaded by Osman Pasha,during Russian-Turkish Liberation war.This war was for the liberation of Bulgaria from the Turkish Yoke... The Shaska is in brilliant condition.It is award parade sword,which wear the Order of St Anna!!! General Skobelev was awarded with St Anna order st degree,and this shashka with matching order insignia.This was one of the highest imperial russian award rank... The shashka has heavy gilt bronze handle,decorated with the miniature of St Anna,with red transperant enamel.It is engraved "for gallantry",and "Shipka 1877". It is fited with premium Solingen blade. The blade is 33inches long,and the whole shashka is 41 inches long.It has genuine leather scabbard with goldplated bronze loop and ends. Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev (Russian: Михаи́л Дми́триевич Ско́белев) (1843-1882) was a Russian general famous for his conquest of Central Asia and heroism during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. Dressed with care in white uniform and mounted on a white horse, and always in the thickest of the fray, he was known and adored by his soldiers as the White General.He was promoted to be major-general, decorated with the Order of St George, and appointed the first governor of the Ferghana Oblast. In the Turkish War of 1877 he seized the bridge over the Sereth at Barborchi in April, and in June crossed the Danube with the 8th corps. He commanded the Caucasian Cossack Brigade in the attack of the Green Hills at the second battle of Pleven. He captured Lovetch on 3 September, and distinguished himself again in the desperate fighting on the Green Hills in the third battle of Pleven. Promoted to be a lieutenant-general, and given the command of the 16th Division, he took part in the investment of Pleven and also in the fight of 9 December, when Osman Pasha surrendered, with his army. In January 1878 he crossed the Balkans in a severe snowstorm defeating the Turks at Sheynovo, near Shipka, and capturing 36,000 men and 90 guns. He returned to Turkestan after the war, and in 1880 and 1881 further distinguished himself in retrieving the disasters inflicted by the Tekke Turkomans, captured Geok-Tepe, and, after much slaughter, reduced the Akhal-Tekke country to submission. He was advancing on Ashkhabad and Kalat i-Nadiri when he was disavowed and recalled. He was given the command at Minsk. In the last years of his short life he engaged actively in politics, and made speeches in Paris and in Moscow in the beginning of 1882 in favor of a militant Panslavism, predicting a desperate strife between Slavs and Germans. He was at once recalled to St Petersburg. He was staying at a Moscow hotel, on his way from Minsk to his estate close by, when he died suddenly of heart disease on 7 July 1882. T was a conspiracy theory that Skobelev had been poisoned by a secret order of Alexander III. AN AMAZING MASTERPIECE , NEVER SEEN BEFOR ONLINE! IT COMES DIRECT FROM MY PRIVATE COLLECTION AND I GUARANTEE TO BE GENUINE FOR LIVE! IT IS MUST FOR EVERY MUSEUM WORLDWIDE OR FOR ADVANCED COLLECTORS.... PLEASE VISIT OUR STORE-WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN ANTIQUE RUSSIAN JEWELLERY AND WATCHES. I AM eBay PLATINUM POWER SELLER ,SO BUY WITH CONFIDENCE! ACCEPT PAYPAL read more

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