The book of orders of knighthood and decorations of honour of all nations ... . -n 23 Hurst and niai-krlt. |K:iS. RUSSIA. 246 nominally independent existence until 1831, when it shared thefate of all the other Polish Orders. The Emperor Nicholas gaveit a new form, placed it in the third rank of the Russian Orders,and, having divided it into five classes, decreed the discon-tinuance of new distrihutions, thus condemning it, as it were,to a slow extinction. The badge of the first class consists of a star (Tab. 21) worn upon the left side of the breast, and of thedecoration (No.
The book of orders of knighthood and decorations of honour of all nations ... . -n 23 Hurst and niai-krlt. |K:iS. RUSSIA. 246 nominally independent existence until 1831, when it shared thefate of all the other Polish Orders. The Emperor Nicholas gaveit a new form, placed it in the third rank of the Russian Orders,and, having divided it into five classes, decreed the discon-tinuance of new distrihutions, thus condemning it, as it were,to a slow extinction. The badge of the first class consists of a star (Tab. 21) worn upon the left side of the breast, and of thedecoration (No. 22), appended to a ribbon thrown under theuniform across the right shoulder towards the left side. TheKnights of the second class wear the same cross suspended bya ribbon round the neck, while those of the three other classeswear it at the button-hole, the only distinction consisting in theappearance of the cross, which is in the third class, of enamelledgold, in the fourth class, of gold with enamel, and in the fifthclass of silver (Tab. V. No. 23). MEDALS AND DECOEATIONS O
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