USSR / Russia Medal - 375 years since the birth of John Milton, 1984 UNC

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Russia - USSR medal 375 years since the birth of John Milton, 1984
Shkurko, Salykov 1553. Diameter 60mm. 123.08g. Tompac. Mintage 850pc. UNC. ЛМД. M.B. Romanovskaya.
"375 лет со дня рождения Джона Мильтона"

John Milton (1608–1674) was one of England’s greatest poets and a fierce advocate of liberty, best known for the epic Paradise Lost.

Born on December 9, 1608, in London to a prosperous scrivener and amateur musician, Milton received an excellent education at St. Paul’s School and Christ’s College, Cambridge. He mastered Latin, Greek, Italian, and other languages and initially prepared for the clergy before dedicating himself to poetry and private study. Early works included the companion poems “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso,” the masque Comus, and the elegy “Lycidas.” In 1638–1639 he traveled through France and Italy, meeting the aged Galileo.

The English Civil War drew him into public life. A committed republican and Puritan, Milton wrote influential pamphlets defending religious and civil liberty, including Areopagitica (1644), a landmark argument against censorship. He served the Commonwealth government under Oliver Cromwell as Secretary for Foreign Tongues. By the early 1650s he had gone completely blind, yet continued working with the help of amanuenses. Personal hardships marked these years: his first wife, Mary Powell (married 1642), died in 1652; he later married Katherine Woodcock and, after her death, Elizabeth Minshull.

After the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, Milton was briefly imprisoned as a prominent defender of the Commonwealth but was released. In relative seclusion he completed his greatest works. Paradise Lost (first published 1667, revised into twelve books in 1674) retells the biblical Fall of Man in blank verse of unmatched grandeur, exploring free will, temptation, and divine justice. It was followed by Paradise Regained and the dramatic poem Samson Agonistes (both 1671).

Milton died on November 8, 1674, in London. His poetry stands among the finest in the English language, while his prose helped shape ideas of individual liberty and freedom of expression that influenced later revolutions and thinkers. Often ranked second only to Shakespeare among English writers, he remains a towering figure of both literature and the struggle for intellectual freedom.

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