Saint Anna Order Breast Star with Imperial Crown made by Karl Shubert /KS/ workshop

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Very rare privately-commissioned breast star.

Silver, gold, gilding, enamel.
Size 86×86 mm.
Weight 51.9 g.

Marked with the maker's mark "KS" for Karl Shubert "Мастерская Карла Рейнгольда Шуберта/Workshop of Karl Reyngold Shubert", silver hallmark "84" and "coat of arms of St. Petersburg".

Collection of State Historical Museum, Moscow.

 

Old black-and-white photo.

 

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Breast star was privately commissioned by Baron Mikhail Lvovich Bode (Барон Михаил Львович Боде /from 1875 - Bode-Kolychev; с 1875 года — Боде-Колычёв/; December 17 [29], 1824, Moscow - March 22 [April 3], 1888, Moscow) - Russian historian, archaeologist, collector, chief chamberlain and founder of the Lukino estate.

Mikhail Lvovich comes from the baronial family of Bode. Born into the family of Baron Lev Karlovich Bode and Natalya Fedorovna Kolycheva (1790-1860), the last representative of the boyar family of Kolychevs. Since by the second half of the 19th century there were no male representatives left in the Kolychev family, in 1875, by the highest permission of M. L. Bode, he was allowed to take the coat of arms and be called Baron Bode-Kolychev.

In 1839-1843 he studied in the Corps of Pages, after which he served in the court department.
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In 1853-1856, he participated in the Crimean War as part of the Moscow militia. At the end of the war, he settled in Moscow in a palace purchased from the Dolgorukov princes on the corner of Povarskaya and Nikitskaya streets and, with the rank of court councilor, entered the service of the Moscow Palace Office as an assistant to the director of the Armory. In 1864-1869 he was an honorary member of the Society of Lovers of Spiritual Enlightenment. From 1875 until the end of his life, he was vice-president of the Commission for the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow.

He was awarded the court ranks “in the position of master of ceremonies” (1856) and “in the position of chamberlain” (1866), the ranks of actual state councilor (1862), chamberlain (1874), chief chamberlain and actual privy councilor (1883). Being "a man of the old school, the baron was domineering, a little tyrant, but overall a kind and true master." His huge house on Povarskaya (Sollogub Estate) was remarkably beautiful and full of artistic objects. Everything in it was performed under the personal supervision of the owner. The baron's Monday evenings began early and all of Moscow came to him at 8 1/2 or 9 pm.

He initiated the construction of an estate complex in his Meshcherskoye estate .

In his estate near Moscow, Lukino, Zvenigorod district, Moscow province, built a complex of buildings in the old Russian style, including a “kremlin”, chapels, a memorial to the Kolychev family, and the Church of St. Philip, where many members of the Bode family were buried, including himself and his wife.​

In post-Soviet times, the estate is used as the summer residence of the Moscow Patriarch.

Baron Mikhail Lvovich Bode was the author of the monumental historical work "The Boyar Family of the Kolychevs," published in 1886 in Moscow in a circulation of 200 copies.

 

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