Today in the Kremlin Museum opens the exhibition, which presents the insignia of the knightly orders of Russian emperors, knights of Europe, as well as the unique characters of the order of the Garter to the Emperor Alexander II from the Royal collection UK

the Kremlin Museums, April 23 — August 30 2015
one-Pillar chamber of the Patriarch's Palace

Today in the Museums of the Moscow Kremlin, the one-pillar chamber of the Patriarch's Palace, opens the exhibition "the Knightly orders of Europe." The exhibition presents the insignia of orders of chivalry of the Russian emperors from the collections of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, knightly orders of Europe from the collection of the famous collector Andrey Khazin, as well as the unique characters of the order of the Garter to the Emperor Alexander II from the Royal collection of great Britain, granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In addition, the visitors can see rare documents from the archive of foreign policy of the Russian Empire by the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and portraits of members of the Russian Imperial house in State history musea@

the Collection of Andrey Khazin, grown from a children's hobby, eventually turned to a sound and complete collection of orders of the European countries. It includes the signs of higher orders of European States, which largely fill the gaps in Museum collections. Great fullness and value, are the topics of the meeting, representing order in the UK, Austria-Hungary, Prussia, Portugal, the Vatican and France from the time of Napoleon Bonaparte. The collection also gives the opportunity to get acquainted with the sash insignia of the Russian rulers and our famous sootechestvennikov@

In the process of preparation for the show, a sensational discovery was made. It turned out that in the collection of Andrey Khazin, there is the reward of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II — the Royal Victorian chain, established in 1902 by king Edward VII for awarding foreign monarchs, princes and heads of state. This award was once sold by the Bolsheviks after the transfer of the Armory, where she came into force evacuated from Petrograd Palace of values in the State storage of values of the RSFSR, and nearly a hundred years later, surprisingly, in the framework of the exhibition project returned to Moscow Krems@

Источник: press release of the Moscow Kremlin Museums