Looking through the portraits of famous people, you pay attention to their awards. And there is a feeling that at least one order was awarded to people who had nothing to do with the state that made it.
This is the badge of the Order of the British Empire.
Badge of the Order of the British Empire.
Of course, such an order should be awarded to people who have done something very important and significant for the British crown.
As, for example, in this case.
Mikhail Gorbachev with his award.
Of course, there are slight differences, but the general form and meaning of the order is identical.
But here, it would seem, are precisely the cases when the order and its owner are, in theory, not compatible.
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Alexander 1. Pay attention to the order.
Again Alexander 1, only from a different angle.
Here's another famous person.
Mikhail Kutuzov.
Alexander Suvorov also wore such an order.
Alexander Suvorov.
Pay attention to the order of the crown of Italy. Do they have all the designers of the orders in the same workshop?
Order of the Crown of Italy. Even the number of rays is the same.
Let's take a hero from another country, Germany.
Hermann Antony de Bloem Baron van Omphal.
By the way, the baron has an interesting medal that strongly resembles the Russian Royal Order of St. Stanislav. Compare yourself.
It's at the baron's.
Russian Royal Order of St. Stanislav.
The baron also has stylized "SS" on the order.
All this leads to interesting thoughts.
Why was an almost complete copy of the British Order awarded to our commanders?
Although, looking at this photo, you understand that our historians are not talking about something.
Nicholas II and King George 5 of Great Britain, cousins.