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226 'To courage,' and sometimes even a statement of the special service rendered.

The ladies-in-waiting on the Empress wear her portrait set in diamonds, and the court ladies generally a medal with her initials equally adorned with diamonds, and suspended by a blue watered ribbon.

By an imperial ukase of March, 1834, the pensions attached to the respective Orders, were divided into the following scales: The Knights of

Foreigners not in the Russian service, receive the decorations without pension. The number of the pensioned Knights of the Vladimir Order, is fixed at sixty. The total amount of the pensions is 158,660 R.S. (about £26,444).

THE ORDER OF ST. ANDREW

Was founded on the 20th December, 1698, by Peter the Great, to initiate his own court in the refinement of the civilized courts of Europe, as also to encourage his nobility in the pending war with Turkey. The first who obtained the Order was the Chancellor, Field-Marshal and Great Admiral Golovin, who, in his turn, performed the same