Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Russia, Empire, Order of St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker, breast badge, with crossed swords, 35mm, gilt and enamel, minor enamel damage to one arm of cross, good very fine £80-£120

The Order of St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker came in one class and 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.