RUSSIA medal 1762 of CATHERINE the GREAT, Accession

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RUSSIA medal 1762 of CATHERINE the GREAT, Accession

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Oval pewter medal for Catherine the Great issued to commemorate her accession to the Russian throne in 1762.

Obverse : Pyramid surmounted by the Imperial Russian Crown.  Reverse : 'E.II' cypher.

Diakov 115/1   35 x 41mm.  31.3gm.  

Good Very Fine  - patinated to a field-grey colour.

In July 1762, barely six months after becoming the Tsar, Peter III committed the political error of retiring with his Holstein-born courtiers and relatives to Oranienbaum, leaving his wife in Saint Petersburg. On 8 and 9 July the Leib Guard revolted, deposed Peter from power, and proclaimed Catherine the Empress of Russia. The bloodless coup succeeded; Ekaterina Dashkova, a confidante of Catherine who became President of the Russian Academy in 1783, the year of its foundation, intimated that Peter seemed rather glad to have rid himself of the throne, and requested only a quiet estate and his mistress.

Eight days after the coup, on 17 July 1762 – just six months after his  accession to the throne – Peter III died at Ropsha, at the hands of Alexei Orlov (younger brother to Gregory Orlov, then a court favorite and a participant in the coup).   Historians find no evidence for Catherine's complicity in the supposed assassination. (Note that at that time other potential rival claimants to the throne existed: Ivan VI (1740–1764), in closed confinement at Schlüsselburg, in Lake Ladoga, from the age of 6 months; and Princess Tarakanova ( 1753–1775).

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