each figure realistically modeled and hand-painted, some on wooden bases with applied descriptive inscriptions such as Private of GPU troops, Infantry, 7th Regiment, Soviet Russia 1922, some figural groups depicting violent historical incidents, such as the execution of the Romanovs, the murder of Leon Trotsky in his study with an ice axe, and the hanging of a Communist by the White Armies, of various heights, ca. 7 cm. (2 3/4 in.) each, some figures broken and entire lot sold as-ios, base of some figures marked in Cyrillic OIN and Borodino