The Tsar and Napoleon spent long hours together, inspecting each other's armies, awarding medals to soldiers on both sides. After two weeks, the two men seemed to have grown genuinely fond of one ...

Elsewhere in the sale, a set of Napoleonic War medals awarded to four brothers made a combined total of £104,780, against a pre-sale estimate of £58,000. Nimrod Dix, deputy chairman of Dix ...