Order of Saint Vladimir
22 September] 1782 by Empress Catherine II in memory of the deeds of Saint Vladimir, the Grand Prince and the Baptizer of the Kievan Rus'.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".This motto was transferred to present-day star of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, which was established in 1992 by President Boris Yeltsin and is today the second highest ranking decoration of that country.In 1957, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Patriarch of Moscow's restoration in Russia, an Order of Saint Vladimir was created by the Russian Orthodox Church.The order is to be awarded to priests and nuns of the Orthodox church for their service to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
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