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Admiral AV Kolchak from the point of view of a collector of orders and decorations
Admiral Kolchak was awarded the Order of St. George three times in total. During his military service in Port Arthur, when he served in various commanding positions, including as an observation officer on the Askold minesweeper, he showed his organizational military talent and the talent of an artillery officer.
🕔︎ 23.04.2020
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Artillery Cross 1813-14
The Army Cross from 1813-14 was founded by Emperor Francis I on May 13, 1814 as a commemorative decoration for soldiers who took part in a field campaign against the troops of the French Emperor Napoleon in the fateful clashes of the Napoleonic Wars.
🕔︎ 18.02.2009
👁︎ 8.439
Austria - Mexico and Czech volunteers: Military Merit Medal
Mexican medals came to our territory and it was mainly the Military Merit Medal, silver or bronze. These medals appear in our territory together with Czech and Moravian veterans, who were members of the volunteer corps, which accompanied the Archduke and later Emperor Maximilian. he took part in the fighting there, and after the failed campaign and death of the emperor on June 19, 1867, his living members returned to their homeland. And many of them were awarded these medals.
🕔︎ 25.04.2009
👁︎ 8.919
Commemorative Verdun Medal
The commemorative medal of the city and fortress of Verdun is well known, but no one realizes that it is a medal that is very widespread, has many types and variants.
🕔︎ 06.03.2009
👁︎ 6.645
Domestic Order of Henry the Lion
The Brunswick Domestic Order of Henry the Lion (Hausorden des Herzogs Heinrich des Lowen) was founded in 1834 by the Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Wilhelm.
🕔︎ 20.02.2009
👁︎ 5.801
History of the creation of Austrian medals For bravery
Marshal Arnošt, the free lord of Laudon, realizes that soldiers are exposed to the hardships of fighting, hardships and death, and it is therefore necessary to reward them in some way. Until then, they only received a financial reward for their heroic deeds, which they usually spend. There is no visible appreciation of the merits and bravery of the soldier.
🕔︎ 07.03.2009
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Honors of the Western Volunteer Army of General Prince Bermont-Avalov
This is an interesting part of history, where both Germans and Russians took part in the fighting against the Bolsheviks. For this reason, we are put the awards of gen. Bermont-Avalov in German section, because I follow the history of both the Baltic Cross and the Silesian Eagle, but also other decorations that appear in Germany and France, but also in the Czechoslovak Republic after 1920.
🕔︎ 17.02.2009
👁︎ 6.610
Liberation of Czechoslovakia and memory of US ARMY
Given that the area of the liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Army is relatively well documented, I would like to point out in my short article the fact that part of the Czechoslovak Republic was liberated by US troops. I would like to say that it is not my intention to reduce bravery, heroism and My article does not claim historical precision, it is intended primarily for younger falerists, who did not always have the opportunity to get acquainted objectively with the campaign and struggle of the US Army and its role in the fight against fascism. I will try to show the types and number of decorations awarded.
🕔︎ 13.04.2009
👁︎ 9.566
Military commemorative medal of the field campaign from 1848-1849
This interesting Vatican medal appears quite often in our collections, but few people know why. We find it in various versions, the embossments are always careful, bronze, or gilded and patinated, but very rarely also gold or silver. Why this medal?
🕔︎ 27.02.2009
👁︎ 6.510
Oldrich Pilz
Founder of Czech and Slovak faleristics. Together with Václav Měřička, he has a special credit for the fact that the term faleristics (the science of orders) has gradually become international.
🕔︎ 16.09.2020
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Order of Merit of the Republic of Austria
Establishment and development of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Austria 1918-1938
🕔︎ 03.03.2011
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Order of the Golden Fleece
The Order of the Golden Fleece, founded in 1429 by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, existed for many years in the form of two, completely separate orders, which bear the same name and derive their origin, history and grandeur from this, the Order founded by Duke Philip. It is therefore the order of the Habsburg family and in Spain the royal family. Both orders still have their status as family orders.
🕔︎ 02.09.2011
👁︎ 6.601
Order of the Legion of Honor
On May 18, 1804, Consul Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) became emperor of France, and on December 2, 1804, he was ceremoniously crowned as Napoleon I in Notre Dame Cathedral. Napoleon is closely bound or, more precisely, the founder of the famous Order of France, which to this day is the Order of the Legion of Honor.
🕔︎ 26.11.2021
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Scout Cross For the Fatherland 1939-1945
The youth organization Junák has its roots in 1911, in Austria-Hungary. The name Junák began to be used in 1914, but Professor A. B. Svojsík started working with young people as early as 1911 and was entirely based on the ideas and ideal of the founder of Scouting, Sir Baden-Powel. In the post-revolutionary period of 1918 it was the young Junaks who, together with the Sokol, ensured the peaceful course of the seizure of power, but also actively worked in the auxiliary services of the newly established Czechoslovak army, which was entering the fighting on the border with Poland and in the battles against the Bolsheviks in Slovakia. During the Protectorate, the young Junaks did not betray their ideals. In the Czechoslovak army on all fronts we could find brave soldiers who passed through the school of Junák, their bravery was highly praised by their commanders Gen. Ludvík Svoboda, Gen. Karel Klapálek, Gen. Sergej Ingr and others. It was the Germans who banned this organization in 1940. The functionaries of Junák, but also young people, found themselves in concentration camps. Many gave their lives for their country.
🕔︎ 17.09.2023
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The path to the state order of merit and its implementation
It was clear to the leaders of the young post-war Austrian Republic that the state could not do without a nationwide order of merit, which would represent its sovereignty both before its own population and abroad ...
🕔︎ 03.03.2011
👁︎ 4.152
Tyrolean medal
None of the countries that formed part of the former Austria, later Austria-Hungary, received the honor and privilege to establish and issue for its citizens such a large and wide number of commemorative and meritorious decorations as in Tyrol. The reason for the monarch's care for the people was the strategic location of this mountainous alpine country, forming a defensive line and island at the western and southern borders of the state. This was fully demonstrated in the years 1793-1815, but also later, during the political leaven and wars that took place on Italian soil in the mid-nineteenth century.
🕔︎ 07.02.2009
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