77,5 cm long, curved blade, on the tierce gold inscribed in Cyrillic „General-Engineer N. Bogaevsky“, on the quart „Central Asian Campaign 1865-1910“. Around that inscription sparse ornament engraved, silver hilt, the handle decorated with turquoise on the tierce, two hallmarks on the quart, on the tierce a crowned monogram in Gold, leather covered wooden scabbard with hallmarked silver furniture, the leather rubbed. The owner was born in 1843 and trained as a military engineer. From 1865 he served for instance in Turkestan and attended various campaigns in Central Asia. As a general he received this item, the exact details are unknown, condition III of a highly interesting collector‘s item!
Nikolai Bogaevsky was born on 6 Feb 1843. He was raised in the cadet corps and promoted to lieutenant in an engineering battalion on 13 June 1862. He was seconded to the Nikolaev Academy of Engineering, from where, after two years of study, he retired as a military engineer in 1864.
In 1865 he was appointed to Turkestan, where he replaced General Cherniaev. In 1866 he took part in the campaign of I. Romanovskaya in Inner Asia and in the battle of Irdzhary in which the army of Bukhara emir Muzaffar was defeated. He was awarded the Stanislav 3rd Class Order for his initiative to attack the fortified town of Khojent during the siege and for his achievements in various campaigns in 1867.
In 1868 he took part in an expedition to the Nuratyn-Tau Mountains and, after occupying these mountains, took part in a campaign to Samarkand. He fought in a battle at the heights of Chapan-Ata and in the occupation of Samarkand.
In 1870 Nikolai Venediktovich Bogaevsky took part in the expedition of A. K. Abramov to the upper reaches of the river Zarafshan and in the attack on the cities Shaar and Kitab in the oasis Shakhrisyabz. For the excellent leadership of the technical siege works he received again awards and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. On 21 January 1874 he was promoted to colonel and later to general when he received this sabre - apparently as a gift of honour.
Nikolai Venediktovich Bogaevsky died on 12 September 1912 in Geneva. He is buried in the family grave at the cemetery in Novocherkassk.

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