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Russia, Death of Leon Tolstoi, 1910, a cast bronze medal by L. Desvignes, facing bust, reverse row of books, oak leaves behind, legend in two lines below, 72mm (BDM –). Very fine and very rare (£50-70)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Art Medals formed by Christian Christensen.

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Count Leon Tolstoi (1828-1910), Russia’s greatest novelist and one of its most influential moral philosophers; author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina