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The Order of Saint Prince Vladimir

Star of the Order of Saint Vladimir
Star of the Order of Saint 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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