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Russian Freedom medal presented to Katherine Olmsted by Russian Premier Alexander Kerensky

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Title

Russian Freedom medal presented to Katherine Olmsted by Russian Premier Alexander Kerensky

Description

Katherine Olmsted (class of 1912) began her work with the Red Cross as part of a commission of doctors and nurses sent in August, 1917 to Romania by way of the Trans-Siberian railway to fight typhus and study health conditions. The commission passed through Moscow, where then Russian Premier Alexander Kerensky presented each member with a Russian Freedom medal, along with supplies. He was ousted from power two months later by the Bolsheviks.
Circular copper colored medal with portrait and inscribed name of A. F. Kerenski [Russian premier 1917] on front, cannon and inscription "Za svobodu Rossii vpered"!" [For the freedom of Russia, forward!] on back. Attached to a blue ribbon with two veritcal white stripes with thin black stripes on either side of the white stripes.

Date

August 1917

Format

Diameter: 1 in
Length: 3 3/8 in

Identifier

Artifact 1009A