RUSSIA Insignia of the Foundation for the Care of the Deaf and Dumb under the Patronage of Empress Maria Feodorovna in silver 84 zolotniks (875 thousandths/min.800) with turquoise enamel decoration, closing on the back with a toggle pin. In a cardboard box. Saint Petersburg, 1908-1917. Goldsmith: Dmitri OSSIPOV. 5.3 x 3.7 cm. - Gross weight: 23.9 g. Slight wear. 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 from which he graduated with honors in 1916. Enlisted at the front in the First World War front, 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 General Markov's 1st Regiment of Officers. General Markov's Regiment, the elite unit of the White Movement, made up mainly of former imperial officers emblematic of the anti-Bolshevik struggle. He served in combat units, successively in mounted reconnaissance in mounted reconnaissance, in signals, then in a cavalry unit, participating directly in military operations until the evacuation of the Crimea. Promoted to the rank of captain in 1919, he remained remains 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 regiment. continued to command a unit of the Markov Regiment within the Russian veterans' organizations in exile. He died in Meudon, near Paris, in 1981.