Saturday, May 20, 2023

The Order of St Alexander Nevsky

Abolished after the 1917 Russian Revolution, this was first awarded in June, 1725 by the Empress Catherine I. The Soviet Union later revived the order in 1942, as a purely military decoration, losing the ‘Saint’ from the Order’s title.



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