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    The Insignia of Saint Olga (Russian: Знак отли́чия Свято́й Равноапо́стольной княги́ни О́льги) was an award that briefly existed from 1913 to 1917. It was...
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    occasion of his marriage to Catherine I of Russia. For the majority of the time of Imperial Russia, it was the only award for women; the Insignia of Saint Olga...
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    Ukrainian athlete, world record holder of women's high jump. Insignia of Saint Olga "Decorations". Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. Retrieved 28 November 2010...
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  • 1913 in Russia (category Years of the 20th century in the Russian Empire)
    Palace Insignia of Saint Olga Ismailiyya building Kharkiv Choral Synagogue Kiev Conservatory Kronstadt Naval Cathedral Mykolayiv Regional Museum of Local...
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    Vladimir, Order of Saint Anna, Order of Saint Stanislaus, Insignia of Saint Olga, during the Partitions of Poland in the 19th century the Order of the White...
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    the Archangel (Insignia of Saint Olga) Russia portal Ministerial awards of the Russian Federation List of awards of independent services of the Russian Federation...
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    Secretary of Commerce and Labor. As part of the commemoration of the Romanov dynasty, Tsar Nicholas established the Insignia of Saint Olga as a decoration...
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    Alexey Buturlin (category Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 1st class)
    Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st Class (April 22, 1850) Order of Saint Anna, 1st Class (1854) Insignia of Immaculate Service for 30 Years (1855) Order of Saint...
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    The Orders of the Russian Empire were honorary awards (insignia) of nine titles, awarded by Russian monarchs from 1698 to 1917. Peter I established the...
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    largely a women's order. The insignia was a cross of silver with the interlocking cipher of the King Karl and Queen Olga on the obverse and the years...
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    the national coat of arms (rigsvåben). The oldest known depiction of the insignia dates from a seal used by King Canute VI c. 1194. The oldest documentation...
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  • Exhibition Centre for Photography, Saint-Petersburg 2017, Olga Lander. The Supplemented Reality of the War, Museum of Military Uniforms, Moscow 2017–2018...
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    In a legend, Saint George—a soldier venerated in Christianity—defeats a dragon at Dragon Hill, Uffington. The story goes that the dragon originally extorted...
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    a similarly named order of merit, the Royal Prussian Order of Saint John which also had similar insignia. The Herrenmeister of the Bailiwick, Prince August...
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    of merit... Awards were made, personally, by the emperor... the badges and insignia of the Order were to be returned to the state upon the death of the...
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    Ilya Glazunov (category Painters from Saint Petersburg)
    Saint Petersburg) to Sergey Fyodorovich Glazunov and Olga Konstantinovna Glazunova (née Flug). Both of his parents originally belonged to Russian nobility...
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    Imperial Order of Saint Charles [es] (Spanish: Imperial Orden de San Carlos). The Order of Guadalupe (originally: "National Order of Our Lady of Guadalupe")...
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    Artillery Battalion (Norway) (category Battalions of Norway)
    air-defence system. The battalion consists of five batteries and the battalion HQ: Cannon batteries: Nils, Olga and Petter Staff Battery Locating Battery...
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    of the Queen Saint giving money to a poor man. This picture is surrounded by a frame with roses (an allusion to the Queen's miracle). The insignia's motto...
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    of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, assigned insignia number 21015, as a great-grandson of...
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  • indications that the Viking princess and Rus' saint, Olga of Kiev, was one such, serving as a "priestess of Freyja" among the Scandinavian elite in Kievan...
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    Regina Maria Cross, the French Croix de Guerre, and the Insignia of a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. Her war-time diary was later published...
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  • of Flags. Anness Publishings. ISBN 978-1-84476-895-0. Eleni Kokkonis-Lambropoulos & Katerina Korres-Zografos (1997). Greek flags, arms and insignia (Ελληνικές...
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    crimson. George V of Hannover wearing the insignia of the order. George V of Hannover wearing the insignia of the order. Hanover: Order of St. George 24 Archived...
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  • ceremonial day uniform of a Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet with the collar of the Order of the Garter, the Royal Victorian Chain, the riband of the Royal Victorian...
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    Vladimir's Cathedral in Chersonesus, with the statue of Saint Andrew in the foreground Baptism of Olga of Kiev (Sergey Kirillov 1993) The Orekhovo-Borisovo...
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  • Deaths in April 2024 (category Lists of deaths in 2024)
    atletka i osobnost Olga Fikotová Connolly (in Czech) Peter Förtig: Traueranzeige 1934 – 2024 (in German) Robert MacNeil, co-founder of NewsHour, dies at...
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    by Cleopatra to discard the use of royal insignia (i.e. the diadem) to make herself more appealing to the citizens of Republican Rome. Duane W. Roller...
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    Sergey Vasilyevich Belyaev (category Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 1st class)
    military insignia. In March 1915 he received swords and a bow to the Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree class (for military merit). In April of the same...
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    Tozer, Charles W. (1975). The Insignia and Medals of the Grand Priory of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. London: J. B. Hayward...
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