300 years reunification of Ukraine with Russia.

The Commemorative Badge of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia 1654-1954. Extremely rare Badge in our time. The hetman of the Zaporizhzhya Troops Bogdan Khmelnitsky applied for a transfer to the service of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.The request was granted by the tzar and approved by the Zemsky Sobor in Moscow. The motive for transition was the deliverance of the Orthodox population of little Russia from religious and social oppression by the gentry and Catholic clergy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Scarce Badge.