Jetons of the Headquarters of the Moscow Military District/Жетоны штаба московского военного округа

Gold, silver, enamel.
Size 40 × 31 mm.
Weight 17.3 g.

Marked with a Moscow assay office gold hallmark from 1899-1908 time period (with the initials of the manager of the Moscow assay district I.S. Lebedkina "56 ИЛ/IL" and with an unreadable maker's mark.

Engraved on reverse /"S N Pototsky 19 14/VI 05 – 19 4/V 08"/"С Н Потоцкому 19 14/VI 05 – 19 4/V 08"

Sergey Nikolaevich Pototsky (1877–1954) - Russian military intelligence officer, military agent in Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark (1917), major general. In 1903 he graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff. From 06/14/1905 to 05/04/1908 he was a chief officer for assignments at the headquarters of the Moscow Military District. Since 1914, he was appointed a military agent in Belgium and the Netherlands. After the outbreak of the First World War he was very successful in organizing active intelligence in Germany from Danish territory for which he was awarded several orders. After the revolution of 1917 he retained the position of a military agent, during the Civil War he carried out orders from the leaders of the White movement. Until the end of his life he lived in exile in Copenhagen.​

 

Gold, silver, enamel.
Weight 13 g.

Ring marks are unreadable.

Engraved on reverse "В.П. Муратову 1904/V.P. Muratov 1904."

Muratov Vladimir Pavlovich /Муратов Владимир Павлович; July 27, 1868 - 1934/. Educated at the Voronezh Mikhailovsky Cadet Corps. Entered the service on September 1, 1885. Graduated from the 1st Pavlovsk Military School (1887). Released to the 7th Samogitian Grenadier Regiment. Second Lieutenant (rank of August 7, 1887). Lieutenant (rank of August 11, 1890). Staff Captain (rank of March 15, 1899).

Graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff (1901; 1st category). Captain (seniority 06.05.1900). Served with the Moscow Military District. Senior adjutant of the staff of the 13th Army Corps (26.11.1901-26.05.1903; 1 year 6 months). Senior adjutant of the staff of the Grenadier Corps (26.05.-25.12.1903; 7 months). Assistant senior adjutant of the staff of the Moscow Military District (25.12.1903-23.10.1904; 10 months). Was seconded to the Aleksandrovsky Military School to teach military sciences (23.10.1903-14.11.1908; 4 years 1 month). Lieutenant Colonel (rank 06.12.1904). Chief of the combat department of the Sveaborg Fortress headquarters (14.11.1908-31.05.1912; 3 years 6 months). Colonel (rank 06.12.1908). Chief of Staff of the Sevastopol Fortress (from 31.05.1912; 3 years 1 month).

Participant of the First World War. On 27.04.1915 in the same rank and position. Commander of the 123rd Kozlovsky Infantry Regiment (since 23.06.1915; 1 year 3 months). Awarded the St. George weapon (VP 25.08.1916). Acting head of the stage-economic department of the headquarters of the 2nd Army (from 18.09.1916 until demobilization). Major General (st. 06.12.1916) with confirmation in the position. Head of the Aleksandrovsky Military School (6 months). Dismissed upon demobilization in early 1918.

Voluntarily joined the Red Army. Head of the State University of Higher Education; At the disposal of the Head of the State University of Higher Education; Assistant to the Head of the State University of Higher Education; Head of the State University of Higher Education since 6.12.1918. Included in the lists of the General Staff of the Red Army from 15.07.1919 and 07.08.1920. Permanent staff deputy chairman of the Small Academic Council (since 20.07.1921); deputy chairman of the Small Academic Council. As of 01.03.1923, head of the Educational Department of the University. Until 1928 he served in the State University of Higher Education, then taught at the Communist University.

He died in 1934 in Moscow, where he was buried with military honors at the Novodevichy Cemetery.​

Awards.

St. Stanislaus 3rd class (1905)
St. Anna, 2nd class. (16.06.1912 10.10.1912)
St. Vladimir, 4th class (VP 04/27/1915)
St. Vladimir, 3rd class (VP 02/28/1916)
Swords to St. Vladimir, 3rd class (VP 03/15/1916)
St. George's weapon (VP 08/25/1916)

 

Although a jeton with a readable maker's mark has not yet been found, its iconography makes it possible to identify the manufacturer as the Moscow workshop of Ivan Mnekin https://asiamedals.info/threads/mos...-the-moscow-workshop-of-ivan-mnekin-im.30971/.