A porcelain group of a young huntsman with hound, Popov Manufactory, 1810-1860

with later silver presentation plaque inscribed in Latin and Cyrillic Kara Sea Expedition 1929 Karskaya Expeditsiya, with blue manufactory mark

Very minor rubbing to the gilding on the base, otherwise in very good condition.
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The Ninth Kara sea expedition of the 1929 designed to reclaim and explore the Arctic region was led by the first Soviet ice-breaker Krasin. The Krasin designed by the famous Russian seaman Admiral Stepan Makarov was built for the Imperial Russian Navy by Armstrong Whitworth in Newcastle upon Tyne and launched on 3rd August 1916. The ship was originally named after the Russian mythological warrior Svyatogor but was renamed in 1927 to honour the recently deceased Leonid Krasin. The Krasin, known as a rescue-ship, a ship-explorer and pathfinder on the North Maritime Route participated in many expeditions in the Arctic region, including the rescues of the survivors of the General Umberto Nobile's ill-fated dirigible Italy expedition to the North Pole and that of the German passenger ship Monte Servantes, which collided with an iceberg.