Russian writer LEON TOLSTOI 1828-1910Â portrait large cast bronze medal by Nuss 1980.
Portrait in profile left of bearded novelist, writer, agrarian, anarchist by German medallist and sculptor Fritz Nuss (1910-1999).
Reverse  refers to Tolstoi’s religious conversion and rejection of Western culture: Hilf Herr (Help, Lord)  Beam of light from the heavens on a plough in a stony field. Punched at the bottom a seated Dionysian figure playing a flute, like a wax seal, referring to his past.
Cast bronze 128mm. heavy weighing 0.985 kilo.
