Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1915 — ORDERS OF LONG STANDING [ARTICLE]

ORDERS OF LONG STANDING

Insignia Pertaining to Russian Knight* hood May Ba Traced Back for r Over Hundred Years. » The orders of St. Anne, St Stanislaus and St George are all well-known Russian orders of knighthood. The order of St. Anne was founded, by Charles Frederick, duke of Hols-teln-Gottorp, in 1735, in honor of hiswife, Anne Petrovna, a daughter of Peter the Great, the famous czar, who remodeled Russia on a European basis, acquired the Baltic provinces in which fighting is at 'present going on, and founded Petrograd, the capital, ft was adopted as a Russian order in 1797 by their grandson, the Emperor Paul There are four classes. The order of St. Stanislaus was founded originally as a Polish order by Stanislaus Augustus PoniatowsM. the famous king of Poland, in 1765. It was adopted as a Russian imperial order in 1831. The Military Order of St. Georg* was founded by the Empress Catherine in 1769 for military service on land and sea, with four classes. A fifth class for noncommissioned officers and men, was added in 1807. The badge ii a white cross with gold borders, with a red central medallion, on which is the figure of St. George slaying the dragon. The ribbon is orange with three black stripes. ‘