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RUSSIA Silver 1708 MEDAL Battle of Lesnaya PCGS MS63 TOP GRADED VERY RARE (59)

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RUSSIA Silver 1708 MEDAL Battle of Lesnaya PCGS MS63 TOP GRADED VERY RARE (59)RUSSIA SILVER 1708 MEDAL GREAT NORTHERN WAR Mint luster under original toning, museum quality. Engraver: Timofey Ivanovich Ivanov GRADED PCGS MS63 (OVERSIZE HOLDER SLAB) FINEST GRADED MEDAL BY PCGS VERY RARE Diakov 25. 11 The 1708 Russian medal commemorating the Battle of Lesnaya celebrates Peter the Greats victory over Swedish General Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt on September 28, 1708 The medal features a map of the battlefield and depicts Victory seated


RUSSIA

SILVER 1708 MEDAL

GREAT NORTHERN WAR

Mint luster under original toning, museum quality.

Engraver: Timofey Ivanovich Ivanov

GRADED PCGS MS63 (OVERSIZE HOLDER /SLAB)

FINEST GRADED MEDAL BY PCGS 

VERY RARE

Diakov-25.11

The 1708 Russian medal commemorating the Battle of Lesnaya celebrates Peter the Great’s victory over Swedish General Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt on September 28, 1708

 The medal features a map of the battlefield and depicts Victory seated on military spoils, symbolizing the destruction of the Swedish supply convoy.

Weight:50.34 g. Diameter: 47mm

  Ex Heritage Auction September 19, 2008

 Long Beach, CA World Coin Signature Auction #3002 / Lot #22274


Obverse: Peter I on a galloping horse.
 

Rev: GLORISA VICTORIA AD LEESNA M ·/28 · SEPT · S · V · ( the glorious victory at Lesnaya on the 28th of September, O.S. ), map of the fortifications at Lesnaya; in foreground to right, Victory seated left upon musical and military implements, holding wreath and horn; to right, shield inscribed CAPVT/EST/A CORPORE/LONGE ·/OVID · ( the head [Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt] is far from its body [the Swedish forces], –adapted from Ovid ); in three lines in exergue, DEVICTO LOWENHAVPT/CAESISAVT CAPT · XVI ·/MILL · SVEC · ( Lewenhaupt defeated, 16,000 Swedes killed or captured ).

 

The Battle of Lesnaya was fought on 9 October during the Swedish invasion of Russia in the Great Northern War. Russia was the sole remaining enemy of Sweden following the dissolution of the anti-Swedish coalition in 1706. Peter I of Russia led a flying corps, supported by two additional divisions, to destroy a convoy under general Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt that was heading for the Swedish main army in Ukraine with reinforcements and supplies. Peter caught up with the convoy at the village of Lesnaya in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, present-day Belarus.

The Swedes were attacked in the rear at 11:00 as they were crossing the stream of Lesnyanka, at Lesnaya, heading for Propoysk (Slawharad) on the river Sozh behind which Charles XII's army was expected. The initial phase of the battle was fought over a forest clearing a distance from Lesnaya, where a Swedish outpost attempted to stall the attack. The Swedes were pushed back to the village after some hours, where Lewenhaupt ordered a general assembly. The following phase saw Russian attempts to capture the Lesnyanka bridge, to cut him off from the road to Propoysk. Reinforcements arrived successively on both sides during the battle, which continued until 19:00 when the approach of night and a sudden snowfall compelled the Russians to disengage.

Lewenhaupt decided to continue the march in the night, but thousands of troops were either too exhausted to keep up the pace or got lost in the dark. The bulk of his forces arrived at Propoysk the next day, where most wagons were abandoned or destroyed in fear of a Russian pursuit. His army crossed the Sozh over the following days. Peter, who refrained from a general pursuit, sent only smaller units to round up Swedish stragglers along the road to Propoysk, which was taken by storm. Lewenhaupt rendezvoused with Charles at Rukova on 23 October with about half of his forces remaining. The next year, Peter defeated the Swedes at Poltava and forced them to surrender at Perevolochna, resulting in the formation of a new anti-Swedish coalition

 

  

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