My $.02: Not sure I see Verney-Carron anywhere but could be wrong. It looks like it might be an "Artisanal Saint-Etienne" gun:
-- Chamber In cm = 1889-1912;
-- Proofed for PT (very faint) = post 1900.
-- The name in an arc on the bottom plate around the trigger guard will be the retailer who ordered it/marketed it.
Please post pictures of the topside and underside of the barrels and barrel flats - there might be a barrel maker's mark there. Also what is the name of the retailer?
Grigoriy: If "liberated" doesn't sound right, just call it a "war trophy.." Actually the fact the Germans took it and reproofed it...then it went to Russia...might have saved it from the fate of so many French guns which were buried...dug up 5 years later and were utterly rusted and pitted.
(And mon cher Gregory: the problem with being "liberated" by the Red Army was that in its wake a totalitarian system was imposed on the beneficiaries courtesy of Josef Stalin, which was...shall we say politely...deleterious to the economic, social, cultural and political health of the countries which were "freed." Not trying to be political - just real.)