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7 unusual facts about Order of Saint Catherine


Alexandra Gallitzin

Vera Vasilchikova (1780 - 1814), maid of honour and dame of the Order of Saint Catherine who was the first wife of later-Prince Hilarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikov.

Sister to Moscow aristocrat and writer Catherine Rostopchin and maid of honour and dame of the Order of Saint Catherine Vera Vasilchikova, she was the mother of five, including Peter Gallitzin, and the grandmother of the Roman Catholic missionary, Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin who published her writing post-humously.

Aurora Karamzina

She was made a dame of the Order of Saint Catherine, the highest honor for ladies in Imperial Russia.

Hedvig Ulrika De la Gardie

Hedvig Ulrika De la Gardie was given the (Lesser) Order of Saint Catherine in 1814.

Natalia Zagryazyskaya

She was a friend of Empress Maria Fyodorovna and in 1798 was given the order of Catherine.

Vera Vasilchikova

August 30, 1814, for services to the spouse was granted the Order of St. Catherine of small cross.

Vera Vasilchikova (née Protasova, 1780 – October 2, 1814), was a maid of honor, the first wife of General Hilarion Vasilyevich Vasilchikova and dame of the Order of Saint Catherine (1814).


Grand Kremlin Palace

Its five reception halls (Georgievsky, Vladimirsky, Aleksandrovsky, Andreyevsky, and Ekaterininsky) are named for orders of the Russian Empire: the Orders of St. George, Vladimir, Alexander, Andrew, and Catherine.


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