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NICHOLAS I -- Bozhieiu pospeshestvuiushchego milost'iu my Nikolai Pervyi ... V Sostave gosudarstvennogo upravleniia istinnye zaslugi na poprishche voennoi grazhdanskoi sluzhby vsegda byli predmetom popechitel'nogo vnimaniia priznatel'nogo Otechestva. [Statute for establishment of the Medal of Distinction for Excellence in Service]. St. Petersburg: Senate Press, 1827. [And:]
Bozhieiu pospeshestvuiushchego milost'iu my Nikolai Pervyi ...V Boze pochivaiushchaia liubeznaia babka nasha, Gosudarynia Imperatritsa Ekaterina II-ia, nagrazhdaia shchedro svoikh poddannykh za trudy i revnostnoe userdie po sluzhbe. [Statute for the Procedure of Awarding the Order of St. Anna]. St. Petersburg: Senate Press, 1829.
2 vols, 2° (360 x 225mm). Text printed within decorative engraved borders; the second work with 9 engraved vignettes. (Some soiling and marginal dampstaining, more pronounced in the first.) As issued, stitched and with coloured paper spines (light wear). Provenance: Paul M. Fekula.
THE FEKULA COPIES of two Nicholas I edicts detailing the rewards for service in the military and civil services. One of these includes fine engravings of the medals of The Order of St. Anne -- named after Peter the Great's daughter and awarded for gallantry or merit in action, it was established in 1735 and became one of Russia's highest distinctions by decree of Paul I. A copy of this document was shown in, and reproduced in the catalogue of, the Hermitage exhibition 'Heraldic Arts and the Art of the Book' (2007, p.59). Fekula 2103, 2104 (these copies). (2)
Bozhieiu pospeshestvuiushchego milost'iu my Nikolai Pervyi ...V Boze pochivaiushchaia liubeznaia babka nasha, Gosudarynia Imperatritsa Ekaterina II-ia, nagrazhdaia shchedro svoikh poddannykh za trudy i revnostnoe userdie po sluzhbe. [Statute for the Procedure of Awarding the Order of St. Anna]. St. Petersburg: Senate Press, 1829.
2 vols, 2° (360 x 225mm). Text printed within decorative engraved borders; the second work with 9 engraved vignettes. (Some soiling and marginal dampstaining, more pronounced in the first.) As issued, stitched and with coloured paper spines (light wear). Provenance: Paul M. Fekula.
THE FEKULA COPIES of two Nicholas I edicts detailing the rewards for service in the military and civil services. One of these includes fine engravings of the medals of The Order of St. Anne -- named after Peter the Great's daughter and awarded for gallantry or merit in action, it was established in 1735 and became one of Russia's highest distinctions by decree of Paul I. A copy of this document was shown in, and reproduced in the catalogue of, the Hermitage exhibition 'Heraldic Arts and the Art of the Book' (2007, p.59). Fekula 2103, 2104 (these copies). (2)
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