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Count Yakim Mashlykin (1774-?) was a Don Cossack. He received the medal for the siege of Izmail in 1790 during the Russo-Turkish War.
![NICHOLAS I. A GRANT OF NOBILITY AND ARMS [GRAMOTA] in favour of Count Yakim Vasilievich Mashlykin (1774-?), creating him Count of the Russian Empire with his own arms, signed in Cyrillic ‘Nicholas’ and dated 29 April 1838](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2021/CKS/2021_CKS_20061_0165_001(nicholas_i_a_grant_of_nobility_and_arms_gramota_in_favour_of_count_yak_d6348624101701).jpg?w=1)
![NICHOLAS I. A GRANT OF NOBILITY AND ARMS [GRAMOTA] in favour of Count Yakim Vasilievich Mashlykin (1774-?), creating him Count of the Russian Empire with his own arms, signed in Cyrillic ‘Nicholas’ and dated 29 April 1838](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2021/CKS/2021_CKS_20061_0165_002(nicholas_i_a_grant_of_nobility_and_arms_gramota_in_favour_of_count_yak_d6348624101709).jpg?w=1)
![NICHOLAS I. A GRANT OF NOBILITY AND ARMS [GRAMOTA] in favour of Count Yakim Vasilievich Mashlykin (1774-?), creating him Count of the Russian Empire with his own arms, signed in Cyrillic ‘Nicholas’ and dated 29 April 1838](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2021/CKS/2021_CKS_20061_0165_003(nicholas_i_a_grant_of_nobility_and_arms_gramota_in_favour_of_count_yak_d6348624101718).jpg?w=1)
![NICHOLAS I. A GRANT OF NOBILITY AND ARMS [GRAMOTA] in favour of Count Yakim Vasilievich Mashlykin (1774-?), creating him Count of the Russian Empire with his own arms, signed in Cyrillic ‘Nicholas’ and dated 29 April 1838](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2021/CKS/2021_CKS_20061_0165_000(nicholas_i_a_grant_of_nobility_and_arms_gramota_in_favour_of_count_yak_d6348624104654).jpg?w=1)
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NICHOLAS I. A GRANT OF NOBILITY AND ARMS [GRAMOTA] in favour of Count Yakim Vasilievich Mashlykin (1774-?), creating him Count of the Russian Empire with his own arms, signed in Cyrillic ‘Nicholas’ and dated 29 April 1838
Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in Russian, 8 pages, 2° (480 x 335 mm.), the first page with the name of Emperor Nicholas I (r. 1825-1855) in gold lettering, the border with coats of arms of towns, principalities and provinces, surmounted by the Imperial double-headed eagle, other pages with crowned imperial cypher within laurel wreath at head, the fifth page enclosing an illuminated coat-of-arms in gold and colours, the final page with the signature of Nicholas I and date, with silk endpapers, bound in the silk folder, with gold-thread cord and a wax seal in silver case, the detachable cover applied with the Imperial double-headed eagle, with maker's mark of Egor Seppe, St Petersburg, 1839
Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in Russian, 8 pages, 2° (480 x 335 mm.), the first page with the name of Emperor Nicholas I (r. 1825-1855) in gold lettering, the border with coats of arms of towns, principalities and provinces, surmounted by the Imperial double-headed eagle, other pages with crowned imperial cypher within laurel wreath at head, the fifth page enclosing an illuminated coat-of-arms in gold and colours, the final page with the signature of Nicholas I and date, with silk endpapers, bound in the silk folder, with gold-thread cord and a wax seal in silver case, the detachable cover applied with the Imperial double-headed eagle, with maker's mark of Egor Seppe, St Petersburg, 1839
Provenance
Mikhail Klavdievich Parenago (1876-1931) (stamp on the inside cover).
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