Russia - Order of St. Anne

Country:

Russia

Established:

The Order of Saint Anne was established on 14 February 1735 by Duke Charles Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein in honor of his deceased wife, Anna Petrovna, daughter of Peter the Great. On 15 April 1797, it was established as a Russian Order and divided into four classes by Emperor Paul I.

Classes:

Four

Criteria:

Order of St. Anne, 2nd Class with Swords

Awarded for a distinguished career in civil service or valor and distinguished service in the military, the highly prized Order of Saint Anne entitled first class recipients to hereditary nobility while recipients of the second, third and fourth classes gained personal nobility. For military recipients, it was awarded with swords.

Recipients - World War I Aces

1		Argeyev (d'Argueff), Pavel Vladimirovich
2		Bloch, Marcel Robert Leopold
3		Collishaw, Raymond
4		De Seversky, Alexander
5		Gilsher, Juri
6		Jacquet, Fernand
7		Kokorin, Nikolai
8		Kozakov (Kazakoff), Alexander Alexandrovich
9		Kruten, Yevgraph
10		Leman, Ernst
* Gazetted

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