The Order of Saint Prince Vladimir

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The Order of Saint Prince Vladimir (St. Vladimir Order)

The St. Vladimir Order was founded in the Russian Empire in 1782.

Motto - "Benefit, Honor and Glory".

The order was given both to civil officials and military men for service merits.

The color of the order ribbon - red with a black border.

There were four classes of the order.

First class of the order - A red cross with black and golden borders. It was born on the ribbon thrown over the right shoulder with an octagonal star made from gold and silver. It was fastened on the left side of the chest.

Second class - The red cross on the neck and the star on the left side of the chest.

Third class - The red cross of a smaller size on the neck.

Forth class - The same on the chest.

People who had been awarded with the St. Vladimir Order for military merits bore it with a special fold on the ribbon - "with a bow".

There was a certain hierarchy of Russian Orders. According to this, the St. Vladimir Order, 1st Class was the second one (the first - St. George Order) by its significance.

According to the Russian Law about the Nobility, people who were awarded with the St. Vladimir Order (each class) had had the rights of hereditary nobility until the Emperor's Decree of 
1900 was issued. After this only three first classes of the Order gave such a right.

The list below contains the surnames of holders of the St. Vladimir Order, 1st Class since the day of its foundation till 
April, 1851.

Adlerberg Aleksandr Nikolaevich, Grand Duke Alopeus Amfiteatrov Antrodoko Arkharov August I, Prince of Oldenburg Bagration Balashov Banulesko Barklai de Tolli Bashutskii Bekleshov Benkendorf Benningsen Berg Betskii Bezborodko Bibikov Bistrom Bludov Bour Bower Broun Brown Bruce Buksgevden Chernyshev Chichagov Citen Creiz Demidov Den Depreradavich Desin Dezin Dibich Dibich-Zabalkanskii Dmitriev Dokhturov Dolgorukov Dovre Drozdov Drucki-Liubecki Durnovo Echmiadzinskii Eiler Elachich Engel Engelgardt Ermolov Eropkin Essen Evgenii, Prince of Wirtemberg Frimont Gagarin Gannibal Gerschtenzweig Gillenschmidt Glagolevskii Gogenloge-Bartenshtein Golenishchev-Kutuzov Golitsin Golitsyn Golovin Golovkin Gorchakov Grabovskii Greig Gudovich Guriev Gurko

Iakobi Iashvil Igelstrom Ilinskii Ioannes, Catholicos of Armenia Isleniev Iususpov Jacoby Kaisarov Kamenskii Kampengausen Kankrin Kantsevich Kapo d'Istria Kashkin Kavelin Khanykov Khitrovo Khovanskii Khrapovitskii Kiselev Kleinmikhel Klingenberg Kniazhnin Knorring Kochubei Kologrivov Konegliano Konovnitsyn Konstantin Pavlovich, Grand Duke Krasinskii Krasnomilashevich Krasovskii Krechetnikov Kreits Kurakin Kurdvanovskii Kuruta Kushnikov >Lambert Lamsdorf Langeron Lanskoi Lavinskii Lazarev Levashov Levenstern Levshin Liders Litta Liven Lobanov-Rostovskii Longinov Lopukhin Loriston Lunin Melgunov Melissino Meller Meller-Zakomelskii Menshikov Meshcherskii Mikhail Palovich, Grand Duke Miloradovich Miuffling Molitor Moller Mordvinov Morkov Musin-Pushkin

Nabokov Naryshkin Neidgardt Nerses, Catholicos of Armenia Nesselrode Nikitin Nikolai Pavlovich, Grand Duke Novosiltsov Obolianinov Obruchev Oldenburg Olenin Opochinin Oppermann Orlov Orlov-Chesmenskii Osten-Saken Osterman Osterman-Tolstoi Palen Panin Paskevich Paskevich-Erivanskii Paulucci Pavel Petrovich, Grand Duke Perovskii Petr Georgievich, Prince of Oldenburg Pful Platov Pocco di Borgo Podobedov Popov Potapov Potemkin Potemkin-Tavricheskii Prozorovskii Pushchin Raevskii Rauch Rautenstrauch Razumovskii Rebinder Redgio Repnin Repnin-Volkonskii Ribopier Ridiger Rimskii-Korsakov Rodofinikin Rosen Rot Rozhnetskii Rozhnov Rumiantsov Rumiantsov-Zadunaiskii Rusanov Sabaneev Saltykov Samoilov Schoeller Seniavin Sestrentsevich-Bogush Shakhovskoi Shcherbatov Sheremetev Shishkov Shuvalov Simashko Sivers Sobolevskii Speranskii Stakelberg Sukhozanet Sukhtelen Sukin Suvorov Suvorov-Rymnikskii

Taneev Tatishchev Tecelly Tekelli Timofeev Tol Tolstoi Tormasov Traverse Trubetskoi Tsitsianov Tuchkov Tutolmin Urusov Uvarov Uvarov Valuev Vasilchikov Vasiliev Vasilievskii Veliaminov Viazemskii Villamov Villie Vincengerode Virtemberg Virtembergskii Vitgenshtein Vitt Vladimir, Archbishop of Kazan Vlasov Voinov Volkonskii Vorontsov Vronchenko Wawrziecki Wilhelm II, King of Netherlands Wilhelm, Prince of Prussia Wirtemberg Wizleben Zass Zavadovskii Zubov

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