1st class IK-made set awarded on May 4, 1876 to the Timoleon Vasso /Greek envoy to the Russian Emperor Alexander II/.
1st class cross.
Gold, enamel.
Size 65.3 x 61.2 mm.
Weight 27.6 g.
Marked with St. Petersburg assay office gold hallmark "56", "double-headed eagle" and "IK" for Julius Keibel.
Breast star.
Silver, enamel, gilding.
Size 88 mm.
Timoleon Vassos or Vasos (Greek: Τιμολέων Βάσσος or Βάσος; 1836–1929) was a Hellenic Army officer and general. He was born in Athens in 1836, the younger son of the hero of the Greek Revolution Vasos Mavrovouniotis. He studied at the Hellenic Military Academy and continued his studies in France before being appointed as aide de camp to King George I. As a captain, he was sent by King George I in 1876 as a Greek envoy to the Russian Emperor Alexander II (1818-1881). In February 1897, as a colonel, he was sent at the head of an expeditionary force to Crete to assist the local Cretan revolt against the Ottoman Empire, an act which precipitated the outbreak of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. He eventually reached the rank of Major General and garrison commander of Athens. He died in Athens in October 1929.