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History Of A Commemorative Medal
My father, Alexander Alexandrovich Lepecha, when he was dying, asked me, his only daughter, to complete an unfinished project that had been begun by him and his fellow White Army officers: To create a memorial to the last Emperor of Russia Nicholas Alexandrovich. In 1921, in Prague died the owner of a small shoe repair shop – a former White Army officer who served under General Wrangel. At his death, he left letter in which he requested that all his possessions be sold and the proceeds used to perpetuate the memory of Tsar Nicholas II. However the sum of money received from the sale of his possessions was too little to fund a monument, a chapel, or even a small side sanctuary in a church. A small group of White officer in Berlin organized a committee, headed by General A. von Lampe, to carry out the wishes of the deceased. At a meeting it was decided that with the money received bronze medals would be cast with the image of the Emperor on one side and the last words from his diary on the other. They though they would sell the medals and with the money obtained create something more substantial. At that time the Second World War started, but in spite of that the work continued. In 1943 my father had to be evacuated to Koenigsbereg. In the subway on the way to the train station in Berlin he ran into General von Lampe, who happily told my father that several of the medals had already been made, and showed him one that he was taking to the person who had ordered it. My father asked the General to give him the medal instead; saying that he was leaving town and it was not known when he would be able to get the medal that he himself had ordered. General von Lampe gave my father the medal. A few days later a bomb hit the General’s house and everything in it that was connected with the preparation of the medals was destroyed. After the war we learned only two medals remained, one in Paris, and other was my father’s. We wrote the owner of the medal in France – a former officer who had been in the same regiment as my father. He had tried to have copies of the medal made, but there was not enough money. I remember my father’s last request and I strive to fulfill it. In 1994 I was in St. Petersburg, and I was able to fine a metallurgical craftsman who cast 300 of the medals which I paid out of my own funds. The money received from the sale of these medallions is to be used to fulfill the dream of the deceased White Army officers – to preserve the memory of their Emperor. In May 2002 I was in Moscow and met with Archpriest Arkady Shatov, Dean of the Church of the Martyred Tsarevich Dimitry at First City Hospital Father Arkady agreed to place the icon of the Holy Martyred Nicholas Alexandrovich and His Family in the church. Next to the icon there will be replicas of the bronze meal and the brick from Ipatyev house. This icon will be a monument from White Army officers to the Martyred Tsar. TO THE MARTYRED TSA
| Image | Stock # | Size | Period | Price |
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 | 5900 | 2.5 " diam | 2000's | $ 75.00 |
 | 5901 | 2.5 " diam | 2000's | $ 75.00 |
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