FABERGE
Pendant of the Red Cross in the shape of drop out of gold (583 thousandths) and white and red enamel guilloche, the edge out of gold engraved with decoration of foliages, the reverse engraved "Lyoil April 3, 1917". Missing white enamel.
Saint Petersburg, 1908-1917.
Goldsmith: probably Henrik WIGSTRÖM for FABERGÉ.
Marks erased.
L. 1,2 cm. Gross weight: 2.3 g.
Provenance
- Anatoly Leonidovich Nossovich (1878-1968).
- Then by descent.
History
Anatoly Leonidovich Nossovich (1878 - 1968) was a Russian officer, veteran of World War I, member of the White Movement in southern Russia, and an important figure in Russian military history at the end of the imperial era and the beginning of the Soviet era. He began his career in the Pskov cadet corps at the age of 19 before graduating from the Nikolaev cavalry school. He was a skilled rider and shared his passion with his older brother, Sergei Leonidovich Nossovich (1866-1919). In 1909, he was appointed captain of the Life Guards of the Ulansky regiment.
This decisive position that he held during the First World War earned him the Order of St. George and the 4th class cross in 1917. After the fall of the Romanovs, Anatoly Nossovich joined the Red Army as a military specialist, before being appointed Chief of Staff of the North Caucasus Military District and being arrested on suspicion of anti-revolutionary acts, he was released at the insistence of Leon Trostky. He held other positions of responsibility in the Red Army, but without ever renouncing his ideas, he directed counter-espionage and fought against the Red partisans by sabotaging military actions and giving decisive information to the White Cossacks. His dangerous position, and certainly the execution of his brother, forced him to go into exile in November 1920 and to settle in France, in Nice. His involvement continued outside the borders, he became a member of the Association of Guards, the Union of Knights of St. George, the Association of Former Students of the Nikolaev Cavalry and the Society of Zealots in memory of Emperor Nicholas II in Paris. He died in 1968 in Nice and is buried in the Caucade cemetery.
