This Russian Order of St Andrew was awarded to August the Strong’s son, Friedrich-August the Second, who was the last -Elector of Saxony who was also King of Poland. It was presented to him in Warsaw on June the twenty-fourth,1736. The Russian Tsarina Anna Ivanova had played a crucial role in Friedrich-August gaining the Polish throne. He ruled Poland as August the Third.
On returning to Dresden, where he was received with all the pomp and circumstance Saxony could muster, the king placed the insignia in the Green Vault.
The enamelled chain consists of twenty links. Six of them are star-shaped. They bear the St. Andrew’s cross and the letters S-A-P-R – the Latin monogram for St Andrew, Patron of Russia. Seven links display the Russian black eagle. The smaller heraldic shield on those links is the older, and therefore more important one. It displays St George. Seven further links bear the Tsarina’s Latin monogram – A-I, Anna Imperatrix, Empress Anna.
- Location & Dating
- St Petersburg, before 1736
- Material & Technique
- Gold, enamel
- Dimenions
- L 110,0 cm
- Museum
- Grünes Gewölbe
- Inventory number
- VIII 261