RUSSIA Badge of General Markov's 1st Infantry Officers' Regiment, in gilt bronze and black and white enamel, the arms inscribed with the date "February 12, 1918", the date of the regiment's creation. Mounted on paper bearing the inscription "M.A. Mantsevitch" for Michel Mantsevitch. Traces of glue and slight wear. Russian work in emigration. L. 3.1 cm. Provenance : - Captain Alexander Leonidovich Zrajevsky (Ukraine, Kherson province, 1897 - Meudon, 1981) - Then by descent. History: An officer in the Imperial Russian Army, Alexandre Leonidovitch Zrajevsky (1897-1981) trained at the Odessa Military School, graduating with honors in 1916. Enlisted on the front in the First World War, he served with the 243ᵉ Kholmsky infantry regiment, where he was wounded in action in August 1916. From June 1918, he joined the Volunteer Army and was assigned to the 1st Officers' Regiment of General Markov's Regiment, an elite unit of the White Movement, composed mainly of former imperial officers and emblematic of the anti-Bolshevik struggle. He served in combat units, successively in mounted reconnaissance, in signals, then in a cavalry unit, participating directly in military operations until the evacuation of Crimea. Promoted to captain in 1919, he remained loyal to the regiment during exile. After internment at Gallipoli in 1920, then redeployment to Bulgaria, he settled in France, where he continued to command a unit of the Markov regiment within the organizations of exiled Russian veterans. He died in Meudon, near Paris, in 1981.