Leather-bound book "Symbols and Awards of the Russian Empire"

The coat of arms, flag, anthem, awards - these and other symbols are attributes of any power, signs of the country's state sovereignty, identity and originality of its people. This book is about the symbols and awards of the mighty Russian Empire, many of which have survived to this day, having survived both revolutions and regime changes. Historians as well as experts in heraldry, faleristics, ethnography, and even musicology tell about them. The book will be interesting to any reader, becoming a kind of key to the entire Russian history and culture of the post-Petrine period. The part of the book devoted to the orders of the Russian Empire is of particular value. It is based on unique materials from the archives of the Chapter of the Russian Imperial and Tsarist Orders. The history of symbols and awards of Russia can be traced from the time of the first Rurikovich to the beginning of the XX century. The black-and-white drawings used in the first publications in this edition have been replaced by more than 200 full-color ones reproduced from the rarest handwritten and printed books.