Nicholas I’s Breast Stars of St. Vladimir Order combined with the Order of the Garter

Made for Emperor Nicholas I somewhere around 1843 by Lakson /К.Лаксон; Карл-Андерс-Фредрик Лаксон; CL/ workshop in St.Petersburg.

Breast star from the collection of Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corp in St. Petersburg.

Gold, silver, enamel.
Size 80.2 x 70.7 mm.
Weight 53.47 g.

Photos courtesy of the colleague and friend from St. Petersburg.

 

Garter.

Honi soit qui mal y pense - shamed be whoever thinks ill of it.

 

Ivan Winberg (1830-1846) portrait of Nicholas I (1796-1855), Tsar of Russia 1825-1855, in red-bordered black coat with silver buttons and epaulettes, wearing the breast-stars of the Imperial Russian Orders of St. Andrew and of St. Vladimir combined with the Order of the Garter, the cross of the Russian Order of St. George, the Imperial Russian Medal for the Turkish Campaign, the cross of the Royal Order of the Crown of Württemberg and the Imperial Russian badge for 25 years of Distinguished Military Services.​

Another Ivan Winberg painting.

According to the inscription on the frame, given to C.A. Murray by the Emperor during a State Visit to London in 1844.

 

Breast star from the collection of Hermitage.

Gold, silver, enamel.
Size 78 x 71 mm.

 

Another miniature portrait of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia painted by Winberg.