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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 573075, member: 5833&quot;]Olenin was President of the Imperial Academy of Art &amp; then also director of the library.&nbsp; The engraving is on the back of a portrait cameo that is only about an inch tall:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]173462[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Gem &amp; medal engraving were taught at the Academy.&nbsp; Julia Kagan, of the Hermitage, believes this is the work of Dobrokhotov, who assisted in the teaching.&nbsp; It looks very much like the medallion of Olenin on his grave monument.&nbsp; The pre-reform italic script made it a challenge.&nbsp; Thought we were encountering the same thing with the cigarette case.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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