Could be a second maker's mark of Second Artistic Artel /Вторая художественная артель/ https://asiamedals.info/threads/ord...raja-xudozhestvennaja-artel-marked-2xa.26550/. Another possibility - one workshop was a supplier of medallions for another. In this case maker's mark could belong to Efim Shaver, owner of a jewelry workshop in St. Petersburg, addresses Kamennoostrovsky Prospect, 376, in 1916, Chernyshev lane, 24, in 1917/Ефим Шавер, владелец ювелирной мастерской, СПб, Каменноостровский Пр., 376, в 1916, Чернышев пер., 24 в 1917. See also Orders of Saint George made by the Second Artistic Artel /Вторая художественная артель/ marked "2XА" or "EШ" https://asiamedals.info/threads/ord...dozhestvennaja-artel-marked-2xa-or-esh.26549/
1st variant of iconography.
4th class cross with swords.
Gold, enamel.
Marked with partly readable St. Petersburg assay office "shovel" gold hallmark "56" with a female head in a kokoshnik to the right from 1908+ time period and partly readable maker's mark “ЕШ/ESh".