Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Russia, Empire, Order of St Nicholas the Miracle Worker, Medical personnel’s issue with Red Cross in centre, breast badge, with swords, 39mm, gilt and enamel, reverse dated 1914-1917, unmarked; together with an unrelated Russian Badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘R.V.S.W.W.’, good very fine (2) £240-280

The Russian Order of St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker was instituted in 1929 by H.I.M. Kyrille Vladimirovitch, a cousin of Tsar Nicholas II and, following the murder of the Romanov family, the pretender to the throne. The Badge of the Order could be obtained by any Russian veteran of the Great War, and had to be bought by the recipient.