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I, II and III degrees

Presidium Supreme Council Union of Soviet Socialist Republics decides:

1. To establish for the awarding of privates and non-commissioned officers of the Red Army, and in aviation and individuals. with the rank of junior lieutenant, who distinguished themselves in battles for the Soviet Motherland, the Order of Glory I, II and III degree.

2. Approve the Statute of the Order of Glory I, II and III degree.

3. Approve the description of the Order of Glory I, II and III degree.

ORDER OF GLORY

1. The Order of Glory is awarded to privates and sergeants of the Red Army, and in aviation to persons with the rank of junior lieutenant, who showed glorious feats of courage, courage and fearlessness in battles for the Soviet Motherland.

2. The Order of Glory consists of three degrees:

Order of Glory 1st class, Order of Glory 2nd class, Order of Glory 3rd class.

The highest degree is the I degree, the award is made sequentially: III degree, II degree and I degree.

The Order of Glory is awarded for:

Having burst into the enemy's disposition first, with personal courage he contributed to the success of the common cause.

Being in a tank on fire, he continued to carry out a combat mission.

In a moment of danger, he saved the banner of his unit from being captured by the enemy.

From personal weapons, with marksmanship, he destroyed from 10 to 50 enemy soldiers and officers.

In battle, he disabled at least two enemy tanks with anti-tank rifle fire.

Destroyed with hand grenades on the battlefield or behind enemy lines from one to three tanks.

Destroyed at least three enemy aircraft by artillery or machine gun fire.

Despising the danger, he was the first to break into the bunker (bunker, trench or dugout) of the enemy, with decisive actions destroyed his garrison.

As a result of personal intelligence established weak spots defense of the enemy and withdrew our troops behind enemy lines.

Personally captured an enemy officer.

At night, he removed the guard post (watch, secret) of the enemy or captured him.

Personally, with resourcefulness and courage, having made his way to the position of the enemy, he destroyed his machine gun or mortar.

Being on a night outing, he destroyed the enemy's warehouse with military equipment.

Risking his life, he saved the commander in battle from the immediate danger that threatened him.

Neglecting personal danger, he captured the enemy banner in battle.

Being wounded, after dressing he again returned to duty.

Shot down an enemy plane with personal weapons.

Destroyed by artillery or mortar fire fire weapons enemy. ensured the success of his unit.

Under enemy fire, he made a passage for the advancing unit in the enemy's barbed wire.

Risking his life, under enemy fire, he assisted the wounded during a series of battles.

Being in a wrecked tank, he continued to carry out a combat mission from the tank's weapons.

Rapidly crashing into the enemy column on his tank, crushed it and continued to carry out the combat mission.

With his tank, he crushed one or more enemy guns or destroyed at least two machine-gun nests.

While in reconnaissance, he obtained valuable information about the enemy.

Fighter pilot destroyed in dogfight two to four enemy fighter aircraft or three to six bomber aircraft.

An attack pilot, as a result of an assault raid, destroyed from two to five enemy tanks or from three to six steam locomotives, or blew up an echelon at a railway station or stage, or destroyed at least two aircraft at an enemy airfield.

The attack pilot, as a result of bold initiative actions, destroyed one or two enemy aircraft in an air battle.

The crew of a day bomber destroyed a railway echelon, blew up a bridge, an ammunition depot, fuel, destroyed the headquarters of any enemy formation, destroyed a railway station or stage, blew up a power plant, blew up a dam, destroyed a warship, transport, boat, destroyed at least two aircraft.

The crew of a light night bomber blew up an ammunition depot, fuel, destroyed the enemy headquarters, blew up a railway echelon, blew up a bridge

The crew of a long-range night bomber destroyed a railway station, blew up an ammunition depot, fuel, destroyed a port facility, destroyed a sea transport or a railway echelon, destroyed or burned down an important plant or factory.

Day bomber crew for courageous action in dogfight resulting in one to two aircraft being shot down.

Reconnaissance crew for successful reconnaissance, which resulted in valuable data on the enemy.

4. Awarding the Order of Glory is made by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

5. Has expired. (Decree of February 26, 1947)

6. Has expired. (Decree of December 16, 1947)

7. Those awarded with the Orders of Glory of all three degrees are awarded the following:

a) assignments military rank:

privates, corporals and sergeants - foremen;

having the rank of foreman - junior lieutenant;

junior lieutenants in aviation - lieutenant;

b) an increase in pensions in case of loss of their ability to work against the prescribed pension by 50%;

in) free education children in secondary and higher educational institutions.

8. Orders of Glory are worn on the left side of the chest according to the order of precedence from right to left. In the presence of other orders and medals, the Orders of Glory (or their ribbons, in everyday wear) are located to the left of other orders, but to the right of the medals.

The badge of the Order of Glory is a five-pointed star measuring 46 mm between opposite peaks. The surface of the rays of the star is slightly convex.

On the front side in the middle part of the star there is a circle with a diameter of 23 mm with a relief image of the Kremlin with the Spasskaya Tower in the center. In a circle - a laurel wreath. At the bottom of the circle there is a convex inscription "Glory" on a red enamel ribbon.

On the reverse side of the order there is a circle with a diameter of 19 mm with a relief inscription in the middle "USSR".

Along the edge of the star and the circle on the front side there are convex sides.

With the help of an eyelet and a ring, the order is connected to a pentagonal block covered with a silk moiré ribbon 24 mm wide. The ribbon has five longitudinal stripes of equal width: three black and two orange. Along the edges of the tape has one narrow orange strip 1 mm wide.

The badge of the order of the 1st degree is made of gold. The badge of the Order of the II degree is made of silver. The circle depicting the Kremlin with the Spasskaya Tower is gilded. Badge of the Order of the III degree - silver.

"Vedomosti of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR" 1943 No. 48

The Order of Glory is a military order of the USSR, established by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 8, 1943. Persons of the rank and file and sergeants of the Red Army are awarded, and in aviation and persons with the rank of junior lieutenant. It was awarded only for personal merit, military units and formations were not awarded to them.

The Order of Glory, in its statute and the color of the ribbon, almost completely repeated one of the most revered awards in pre-revolutionary Russia - George Cross(among the differences - different number degrees: 3 and 4 respectively).

The Order of Glory has three degrees, of which the highest I degree is gold, and II and III are silver (in the second degree the central medallion was gilded). These insignia could be issued for a personal feat on the battlefield, were issued in strict sequence - from lowest degree to the highest.

Corporal M. T. Pitenin (November 28, 1943) became the first holder of the Order of Glory. Minesweeper, he received an order for clearing mine approaches to enemy trenches and covering the withdrawal of sappers (he destroyed 5 enemy soldiers). Subsequently, he became a full knight of the order (first degree - posthumously).

In total for the difference in the years of the Great Patriotic War about a million badges of the Order of Glory of the III degree were issued, more than 46 thousand - of the II degree and 2631 - of the I degree.

The first full cavalier of the Order of Glory was Senior Sergeant N. A. Zaletov, who received the first Glory of the 3rd degree for the battles near Pulkovo ( Leningrad region). Bursting into enemy trenches with a detachment, he destroyed over 10 fascists in battle. The pilot of the assault aviation regiment Ivan Grigorievich Drachenko, marine Pavel Khristoforovich Dubinda and gunners Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov, Andrei Vasilyevich Alyoshin, during the war years were awarded the title of Hero Soviet Union.

Total full cavaliers Order of Glory, according to later and more accurate data, there are 2656 people, among them - four women.

For courage and heroism shown in the battle on the left bank of the Vistula River on January 14, 1945 - all privates, sergeants and foremen of the 1st battalion of the 215th Red Banner Regiment of the 77th Guards Chernigov Red Banner Orders of Lenin and Suvorov Rifle Division were awarded the Order of Glory , Company commanders - the Order of the Red Banner, platoon commanders - the Order of Alexander Nevsky, and the battalion commander B.N. Emelyanov became a Hero of the Soviet Union. It was the only unit in which all the fighters received the Order of Glory in one battle.

Statute of the Order

The Order of Glory is awarded to privates and sergeants of the Red Army, and in aviation to persons with the rank of junior lieutenant, who showed glorious feats of courage, courage and fearlessness in battles for the Soviet Motherland.

The Order of Glory consists of three degrees: I, II and III degrees. The highest degree of the order is the 1st degree. The award is made sequentially: first the third, then the second and, finally, the first degree.

The Order of Glory is awarded to those who:
- Having burst into the enemy's location first, with personal courage he contributed to the success of the common cause;
- Being in a tank on fire, he continued to carry out a combat mission;
- In a moment of danger, he saved the banner of his unit from being captured by the enemy;
- Destroyed from 10 to 50 enemy soldiers and officers from personal weapons with marksmanship;
- In battle, with the fire of an anti-tank rifle, he disabled at least two enemy tanks;
- Destroyed with hand grenades on the battlefield or behind enemy lines from one to three tanks;
- Destroyed at least three enemy aircraft with artillery or machine gun fire;
- Despising the danger, he was the first to break into the bunker (bunker, trench or dugout) of the enemy, with decisive actions destroyed his garrison;
- As a result of personal reconnaissance, he established the weak points of the enemy's defense and withdrew our troops behind enemy lines;
- Personally captured an enemy officer;
- At night, he removed the guard post (watch, secret) of the enemy or captured him;
- Personally, with resourcefulness and courage, having made his way to the position of the enemy, destroyed his machine gun or mortar;
- Being on a night outing, he destroyed the enemy's warehouse with military equipment;
- Risking his life, he saved the commander in battle from the immediate danger that threatened him;
- Neglecting personal danger, in battle captured the enemy banner;
- Being wounded, after dressing he returned to duty;
- From personal weapons shot down an enemy aircraft;
- Having destroyed the enemy's firepower with artillery or mortar fire, he ensured the successful actions of his unit;
- Under enemy fire, he made a passage for the advancing unit in the enemy's barbed wire;
- Risking his life, under enemy fire, assisted the wounded during a series of battles;
- Being in a wrecked tank, he continued to carry out a combat mission from the tank's weapons;
- Rapidly crashing on his tank into the enemy column, crushed it and continued to carry out the combat mission;
- With his tank, he crushed one or more enemy guns or destroyed at least two machine-gun nests;
- Being in reconnaissance, I obtained valuable information about the enemy;
- A fighter pilot destroyed in an air battle from two to four enemy fighter aircraft or from three to six bomber aircraft;
- An attack pilot, as a result of an assault raid, destroyed from two to five enemy tanks or from three to six steam locomotives, or blew up an echelon at a railway station or stage, or destroyed at least two aircraft at an enemy airfield;
- An attack pilot destroyed one or two enemy aircraft as a result of bold initiative actions in an air battle;
- The crew of a day bomber destroyed a railway echelon, blew up a bridge, an ammunition depot, fuel, destroyed the headquarters of any enemy unit, destroyed a railway station or a stage, blew up a power plant, blew up a dam, destroyed a warship, transport, boat, destroyed at least two aircraft;
- The crew of a light night bomber blew up an ammunition depot, fuel, destroyed the enemy's headquarters, blew up a railway echelon, blew up a bridge;
- The crew of a long-range night bomber destroyed a railway station, blew up an ammunition depot, fuel, destroyed a port facility, destroyed a sea transport or a railway echelon, destroyed or burned down an important plant or factory;
- The crew of a day bomber for a bold action in aerial combat, as a result of which one to two aircraft were shot down;
- Reconnaissance crew for successfully completed reconnaissance, as a result of which valuable information about the enemy was obtained.

The Order of Glory is awarded by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

Those awarded with the Orders of Glory of all three degrees are awarded the right to confer a military rank:
- privates, corporals and sergeants - foremen;
- having the rank of foreman - junior lieutenant;
- junior lieutenants in aviation - lieutenant.

The Order of Glory is worn on the left side of the chest and, in the presence of other orders of the USSR, is located after the Order of the Badge of Honor in order of seniority.

Description of the Order

The badge of the Order of Glory is a five-pointed star measuring 46 mm between opposite peaks. The surface of the rays of the star is slightly convex. On the front side in the middle part of the star there is a circle-medallion with a diameter of 23.5 mm with a relief image of the Kremlin with the Spasskaya Tower in the center. Around the circumference of the medallion is a laurel wreath. At the bottom of the circle there is a convex inscription "GLORY" on a red enamel ribbon.

On the reverse side of the order - a circle with a diameter of 19 mm with a relief inscription in the middle of the "USSR".

Along the edge of the star and the circle on the front side there are convex sides.

With the help of an eye and a ring, the badge is connected to a pentagonal block covered with a silk moiré ribbon 24 mm wide. There are five longitudinal stripes of equal width on the ribbon: three black and two orange. Along the edges of the tape has one narrow orange strip 1 mm wide.

Full Cavalier of the Order of Glory

In 1967 and 1975, additional benefits were introduced for full cavaliers of the Order of Glory, equalizing their rights with the Heroes of the Soviet Union. In particular, the right to assign them personal pensions of federal significance, large housing benefits, the right to free travel, etc., were presented. Current legislation Russian Federation confirms all these rights to holders of the Order of Glory of three degrees.

In the first post-war years, there were no special documents for full holders of the Order of Glory. The recipient was awarded only an order book general pattern, and it listed all three degrees of the order and other awards (if any). However, in 1976 a special document appeared for the full cavaliers of the order - the order book of the recipient of the Orders of Glory of three degrees. The first such books were issued in February 1976 by the military commissariats at the place of residence of the awarded.

Number of awards

more than 1 million

Priority senior award Junior Award

Order of Glory- Military Order of the USSR, established. The order was awarded to private soldiers, sergeants and foremen of the Red Army, and in aviation - to persons with the rank of junior lieutenant. It was awarded only for personal merit, military units and formations were not awarded to them.

For courage and heroism shown in the battle on the left bank of the Vistula River on January 14, 1945 during the Vistula-Oder operation, all privates, sergeants and foremen of the 1st battalion of the 215th Red Banner Regiment of the 77th Guards Chernigov Red Banner Orders of Lenin and Suvorov Rifle the divisions were awarded the Order of Glory, the company commanders of this battalion - the Order of the Red Banner, the platoon commanders - the Order of Alexander Nevsky, and the battalion commander B.N. Yemelyanov became a Hero of the Soviet Union. The division, thus, became the only one in which all the fighters received the Order of Glory in one battle.

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The Order of Glory is awarded to those who:

Having burst into the enemy's location first, with personal courage he contributed to the success of the common cause;
Being in a tank on fire, he continued to carry out a combat mission;
In a moment of danger, he saved the banner of his unit from being captured by the enemy;
From personal weapons, with marksmanship, he destroyed from 10 to 50 enemy soldiers and officers;
In battle, anti-tank rifle fire disabled at least two enemy tanks;
Destroyed with hand grenades on the battlefield or behind enemy lines from one to three tanks;
Destroyed at least three enemy aircraft by artillery or machine gun fire;
Despising the danger, he was the first to break into the bunker (bunker, trench or dugout) of the enemy, with decisive actions destroyed his garrison;
As a result of personal reconnaissance, he established the weak points of the enemy’s defense and withdrew our troops behind enemy lines;
Personally captured an enemy officer;
At night, he removed the guard post (watch, secret) of the enemy or captured him;
Personally, with resourcefulness and courage, having made his way to the position of the enemy, he destroyed his machine gun or mortar;
Being on a night outing, he destroyed the enemy's warehouse with military equipment;
Risking his life, he saved the commander in battle from the immediate danger that threatened him;
Neglecting personal danger, he captured the enemy banner in battle;
Being wounded, after dressing he again returned to duty;
He shot down an enemy plane from personal weapons;
Having destroyed enemy firepower with artillery or mortar fire, he ensured the successful actions of his unit;
Under enemy fire, he made a passage for the advancing unit in the enemy's barbed wire;
Risking his life, under enemy fire, he assisted the wounded during a series of battles;
Being in a wrecked tank, he continued to carry out a combat mission from the tank's weapons;
Rapidly crashing into the enemy column on his tank, crushed it and continued to carry out the combat mission;
With his tank, he crushed one or more enemy guns or destroyed at least two machine-gun nests;
Being in reconnaissance, he obtained valuable information about the enemy;

A fighter pilot destroyed in an air battle from two to four enemy fighter aircraft or from three to six bomber aircraft;
As a result of an assault raid, an attack pilot destroyed from two to five enemy tanks or from three to six steam locomotives, or blew up an echelon at a railway station or stage, or destroyed at least two aircraft at an enemy airfield;
The attack pilot destroyed one or two enemy aircraft as a result of bold initiative actions in aerial combat;
The crew of a day bomber destroyed a railway echelon, blew up a bridge, an ammunition depot, fuel, destroyed the headquarters of any enemy unit, destroyed a railway station or stage, blew up a power plant, blew up a dam, destroyed a warship, transport, boat, destroyed at least two aircraft;
The crew of a light night bomber blew up an ammunition depot, fuel, destroyed the enemy headquarters, blew up a railway echelon, blew up a bridge;
The crew of a long-range night bomber destroyed a railway station, blew up an ammunition depot, fuel, destroyed a port facility, destroyed a sea transport or a railway echelon, destroyed or burned down an important plant or factory;
Day bomber crew for courageous action in a dogfight resulting in one to two aircraft being shot down;
Reconnaissance crew for successful reconnaissance, which resulted in valuable data on the enemy.

The Order of Glory is awarded by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

Those awarded with the Orders of Glory of all three degrees are awarded the right to confer a military rank:

privates, corporals and sergeants - foremen;
having the rank of foreman - junior lieutenant;
junior lieutenants in aviation - lieutenant.

The Order of Glory is worn on the left side of the chest and, in the presence of other orders of the USSR, is located after the Order of the Badge of Honor in order of seniority.

Description of the Order

On the reverse side of the order - a circle with a diameter of 19 mm with a relief inscription in the middle of the "USSR".

Along the edge of the star and the circle on the front side there are convex sides.

The badge of the order of the 1st degree is made of gold (sample 950). Gold content in the order of the 1st degree - 28.619 ± 1.425 g. Total weight orders - 30.414 ± 1.5 g.

The badge of the Order of the II degree is made of silver, and the circle with the image of the Kremlin with the Spasskaya Tower is gilded. Silver content in the order of the II degree - 20.302 ± 1.222 g. The total weight of the order - 22.024 ± 1.5 g.

The badge of the order of the III degree is silver, without gilding in the central circle. Silver content in the order of the III degree - 20.549 ± 1.388 g. The total weight of the order - 22.260 ± 1.6 g.

Full Cavalier of the Order of Glory

The first cavaliers of the Order of Glory II degree in the Red Army were the soldiers of the 665th separate engineer battalion of the 385th rifle division, foreman M. A. Bolshov, Red Army soldiers S. I. Baranov and A. G. Vlasov (order No. Army of December 10, 1943).

In the post-war years, work was carried out to bring into line with the statute of the order cases of repeated awarding of signs of the order of one degree and re-awarding (replacing one sign with another, the next degree). There were no special documents for full holders of the Order of Glory at that time. The recipient was awarded only an order book of a general type, and all three degrees of the order and other awards (if any) were listed in it. However, in 1975, additional benefits were introduced for full holders of the Order of Glory, equalizing their rights with the Heroes of the Soviet Union. In particular, they were given the right to assign them personal pensions of federal significance, large housing benefits, the right to free travel, etc. The consequence of this was the appearance in 1976 of a special document for full holders of the order - an order book awarded with Orders of Glory of three degrees. The first such books were issued in February 1976 by the military commissariats at the place of residence of the awarded.

The current legislation of the Russian Federation confirms to the full holders of the Order of Glory all the rights and benefits granted during the Soviet period.

Gallery

Order on stamps and coins

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USSR stamp from the issue of Orders and Medals of the USSR (1945, artist A. Mandrusova, CFA No. 953).

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USSR stamp from the issue "Orders and medals of the USSR" (1945, artist A. Mandrusova, CFA No. 960).

Commemorative coin of the Bank of Russia 2000

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Natasha did not let her finish, pulled her to her big hand Countess and kissed her from above, then on the palm, then turned again and began to kiss her on the bone of the upper joint of the finger, then in the gap, then again on the bone, saying in a whisper: "January, February, March, April, May."
- Speak, mother, why are you silent? Speak, - she said, looking back at her mother, who looked at her daughter with a tender look and because of this contemplation, it seemed that she forgot everything she wanted to say.
“That won’t do, my soul. Not everyone will understand your childhood connection, and seeing him so close to you can harm you in the eyes of other young people who travel to us, and, most importantly, torment him in vain. He may have found himself a party of his own, rich; and now he's going crazy.
- Coming down? Natasha repeated.
- I'll tell you about myself. I had one cousin...
- I know - Kirilla Matveich, but he is an old man?
“There was not always an old man. But here's the thing, Natasha, I'll talk to Borey. He doesn't have to travel so often...
“Why not, if he wants to?”
“Because I know it won’t end.”
- Why do you know? No, mom, you don't tell him. What nonsense! - Natasha said in the tone of a person from whom they want to take away his property.
- Well, I won’t get married, so let him go, if he’s having fun and I’m having fun. Natasha looked at her mother smiling.
“Not married, but like this,” she repeated.
- How is it, my friend?
- Yes, it is. Well, it’s very necessary that I won’t get married, but ... so.
“So, so,” repeated the countess, and, shaking with her whole body, she laughed a kind, unexpected old woman’s laugh.
- Stop laughing, stop it, - Natasha shouted, - you are shaking the whole bed. You look terribly like me, the same laughter ... Wait a minute ... - She grabbed both hands of the countess, kissed the bone of the little finger on one - June, and continued to kiss July, August on the other hand. - Mom, is he very in love? How about your eyes? Were you so in love? And very nice, very, very nice! Only not quite to my taste - it is narrow, like a dining room clock ... Don't you understand? ... Narrow, you know, gray, light ...
– What are you lying about! said the Countess.
Natasha continued:
- Do you really not understand? Nikolenka would understand... Earless - that blue, dark blue with red, and it is quadrangular.
“You flirt with him, too,” said the countess, laughing.
“No, he is a Freemason, I found out. He is nice, dark blue with red, how do you explain ...
“Countess,” came the voice of the count from behind the door. - Are you awake? - Natasha jumped up barefoot, grabbed her shoes in her hands and ran into her room.
She couldn't sleep for a long time. She kept thinking about the fact that no one can understand everything that she understands and what is in her.
"Sonya?" she thought, looking at the sleeping, curled-up kitty with her huge braid. “No, where is she! She is virtuous. She fell in love with Nikolenka and doesn't want to know anything else. Mom doesn't understand. It’s amazing how smart I am and how… she’s nice,” she continued, speaking to herself in the third person and imagining that some very smart, smartest and most intelligent person was talking about her. good man... “Everything, everything is in her,” this man continued, “she is unusually smart, sweet and then good, unusually good, dexterous, swims, rides excellently, and her voice! You can say, an amazing voice! She sang her favorite musical phrase from the Kherubinievskaya opera, threw herself on the bed, laughed at the joyful thought that she was about to fall asleep, shouted to Dunyasha to put out the candle, and Dunyasha had not even had time to leave the room, as she had already moved into another, even more happy world dreams, where everything was just as easy and beautiful as in reality, but only better because it was different.

The next day, the countess, having invited Boris to her place, had a talk with him, and from that day he stopped visiting the Rostovs.

On the 31st of December, on the eve of the new year 1810, le reveillon [night dinner], there was a ball at the Catherine's nobleman. The ball was supposed to be the diplomatic corps and the sovereign.
On the Promenade des Anglais shone with countless lights of illumination famous house nobles. At the illuminated entrance with red cloth stood the police, and not only the gendarmes, but the police chief at the entrance and dozens of police officers. The carriages drove off, and new ones kept coming up with red footmen and with footmen in feathers on their hats. Men in uniforms, stars and ribbons came out of the carriages; ladies in satin and ermine carefully descended the noisily laid steps, and hurriedly and soundlessly passed along the cloth of the entrance.
Almost every time a new carriage drove up, a whisper ran through the crowd and hats were taken off.
- Sovereign? ... No, minister ... prince ... envoy ... Can't you see the feathers? ... - said from the crowd. One of the crowd, dressed better than the others, seemed to know everyone, and called by name the noblest nobles of that time.
One-third of the guests had already arrived at this ball, and the Rostovs, who were supposed to be at this ball, were still hastily preparing to dress.
There were many rumors and preparations for this ball in the Rostov family, many fears that the invitation would not be received, the dress would not be ready, and everything would not work out as it should.
Together with the Rostovs, Marya Ignatievna Peronskaya, a friend and relative of the countess, a thin and yellow maid of honor of the old court, who led the provincial Rostovs in the highest St. Petersburg society, went to the ball.
At 10 pm, the Rostovs were supposed to call for the maid of honor to the Tauride Garden; and meanwhile it was already five minutes to ten, and the young ladies were still not dressed.
Natasha was going to the first big ball in her life. She got up that day at 8 o'clock in the morning and was in feverish anxiety and activity all day long. All her strength, from the very morning, was focused on ensuring that they all: she, mother, Sonya were dressed in the best possible way. Sonya and the countess vouched for her completely. The countess was supposed to be wearing a masaka velvet dress, they were wearing two white smoky dresses on pink, silk covers with roses in the corsage. The hair had to be combed a la grecque [in Greek].
Everything essential had already been done: the legs, arms, neck, ears were already especially carefully, according to the ballroom, washed, perfumed and powdered; shod already were silk, fishnet stockings and white satin shoes with bows; the hair was almost finished. Sonya finished dressing, the countess too; but Natasha, who worked for everyone, fell behind. She was still sitting in front of the mirror in a peignoir draped over her thin shoulders. Sonya, already dressed, stood in the middle of the room and, pressing painfully with her little finger, pinned the last ribbon that squealed under the pin.
“Not like that, not like that, Sonya,” said Natasha, turning her head from her hairdo and grabbing her hair with her hands, which the maid who held them did not have time to let go. - Not so bow, come here. Sonya sat down. Natasha cut the ribbon differently.
“Excuse me, young lady, you can’t do that,” said the maid holding Natasha’s hair.
- Oh, my God, well after! That's it, Sonya.
- Are you coming soon? - I heard the voice of the countess, - it's already ten now.
- Now. - Are you ready, mom?
- Just pin the current.
“Don’t do it without me,” Natasha shouted: “you won’t be able to!”
- Yeah, ten.
It was decided to be at the ball at half past ten, and Natasha still had to get dressed and stop by the Tauride Garden.
Having finished her hair, Natasha, in a short skirt, from under which ballroom shoes were visible, and in her mother's blouse, ran up to Sonya, examined her and then ran to her mother. Turning her head, she pinned the current, and, barely having time to kiss her White hair, again ran to the girls who were hemming her skirt.
The case was behind Natasha's skirt, which was too long; it was hemmed by two girls, hastily biting the threads. A third, with pins in her lips and teeth, ran from the countess to Sonya; the fourth held the entire smoky dress on a high hand.
- Mavrusha, rather, dove!
- Give me a thimble from there, young lady.
– Will it be soon? - said the count, entering from behind the door. “Here are the spirits. Peronskaya was already waiting.
“It’s ready, young lady,” said the maid, lifting a hemmed smoky dress with two fingers and blowing and shaking something, expressing with this gesture the awareness of the airiness and purity of what she was holding.
Natasha began to put on a dress.
“Now, now, don’t go, papa,” she shouted to her father, who opened the door, still from under the haze of a skirt that covered her entire face. Sonya closed the door. A minute later, the count was let in. He was in a blue tailcoat, stockings and shoes, perfumed and pomaded.
- Oh, dad, you're so good, lovely! - said Natasha, standing in the middle of the room and straightening the folds of smoke.
“Excuse me, young lady, excuse me,” the girl said, kneeling, pulling at her dress and turning the pins from one side of her mouth to the other.
- Your will! - Sonya cried out with despair in her voice, looking at Natasha's dress, - your will, again long!
Natasha stepped aside to look around in the dressing-glass. The dress was long.
“By God, madam, nothing is long,” said Mavrusha, who was crawling along the floor after the young lady.
“Well, it’s a long time, so we’ll sweep it, we’ll sweep it in a minute,” said the resolute Dunyasha, taking out a needle from a handkerchief on her chest and again set to work on the floor.
At that moment, shyly, with quiet steps, the countess entered in her toque and velvet dress.
- Wow! my beauty! shouted the Count, “better than all of you!” He wanted to hug her, but she pulled away, blushing, so as not to cringe.
“Mom, more on the side of the current,” Natasha said. - I'll cut it, and rushed forward, and the girls who were hemming, who did not have time to rush after her, tore off a piece of smoke.
- My God! What is it? I don't blame her...
“Nothing, I notice, you won’t see anything,” said Dunyasha.
- Beauty, my darling! - said the nanny who came in from behind the door. - And Sonyushka, well, beauties! ...
At a quarter past eleven we finally got into the carriages and drove off. But still it was necessary to stop by the Tauride Garden.
Peronskaya was already ready. Despite her old age and ugliness, she had exactly the same thing as the Rostovs, although not with such haste (for her it was a habitual thing), but her old, ugly body was also perfumed, washed, powdered, also carefully washed behind the ears , and even, and just like at the Rostovs, the old maid enthusiastically admired the outfit of her mistress when she, in a yellow dress with a cipher, went out into the living room. Peronskaya praised the Rostovs' toilets.
The Rostovs praised her taste and dress, and, taking care of their hair and dresses, at eleven o'clock they got into the carriages and drove off.

Natasha had not had a moment of freedom since the morning of that day, and had never had time to think about what lay ahead of her.
In the damp, cold air, in the cramped and incomplete darkness of the swaying carriage, for the first time she vividly imagined what awaited her there, at the ball, in the illuminated halls - music, flowers, dances, sovereign, all the brilliant youth of St. Petersburg. What awaited her was so wonderful that she did not even believe that it would be: it was so inconsistent with the impression of cold, crowdedness and darkness of the carriage. She understood everything that awaited her only when, having walked along the red cloth of the entrance, she entered the hallway, took off her fur coat and walked beside Sonya in front of her mother between the flowers along the illuminated stairs. Only then did she remember how she had to behave at the ball and tried to adopt that majestic manner that she considered necessary for a girl at the ball. But fortunately for her, she felt that her eyes were running wide: she could not see anything clearly, her pulse beat a hundred times a minute, and the blood began to beat at her heart. She could not adopt the manner that would have made her ridiculous, and she walked, dying from excitement and trying with all her might only to hide it. And this was the very manner that most of all went to her. In front and behind them, talking in the same low voice and also in ball gowns, the guests entered. The mirrors on the stairs reflected the ladies in white, blue, pink dresses, with diamonds and pearls on open hands and necks.
Natasha looked into the mirrors and in the reflection she could not distinguish herself from others. Everything was mixed in one brilliant procession. At the entrance to the first hall, a uniform rumble of voices, steps, greetings - deafened Natasha; the light and brilliance blinded her even more. The master and hostess, who had been standing by the front door and those who said the same words to those who came in: “charme de vous voir,” [in admiration that I see you] also met the Rostovs and Peronskaya.
Two girls in white dresses, with identical roses in their black hair, sat down in the same way, but the hostess involuntarily fixed her gaze longer on thin Natasha. She looked at her, and smiled at her alone, in addition to her master's smile. Looking at her, the hostess remembered, perhaps, her golden, irrevocable girlish time, and her first ball. The owner also looked after Natasha and asked the count, who is his daughter?
- Charmante! [Charming!] – he said, kissing the tips of his fingers.
Guests were standing in the hall, crowding at the front door, waiting for the sovereign. The Countess placed herself in the front row of this crowd. Natasha heard and felt that several voices asked about her and looked at her. She realized that those who paid attention to her liked her, and this observation calmed her somewhat.
“There are people like us, there are worse than us,” she thought.
Peronskaya called the countess the most significant persons who were at the ball.
“This is a Dutch envoy, you see, gray-haired,” Peronskaya said, pointing to an old man with silver gray curly, abundant hair, surrounded by ladies, whom he made laugh at something.
“And here she is, the Queen of Petersburg, Countess Bezukhaya,” she said, pointing to Helen entering.
- How good! Will not yield to Marya Antonovna; see how both young and old follow her. And good, and smart ... They say the prince ... crazy about her. But these two, although not good, are even more surrounded.
She pointed to a lady passing through the hall with a very ugly daughter.
“This is a millionaire bride,” said Peronskaya. And here are the grooms.
“This is Bezukhova’s brother, Anatole Kuragin,” she said, pointing to the handsome cavalry guard, who walked past them, looking somewhere from the height of his raised head through the ladies. - How good! is not it? They say they will marry him to this rich woman. .And your sousin, Drubetskoy, is also very entangled. They say millions. “Well, it’s the French envoy himself,” she answered about Caulaincourt when asked by the countess who it was. “Look like some kind of king. And yet the French are very, very nice. There is no mile for society. And here she is! No, everything is better than all our Marya Antonovna! And how simply dressed. Charm! “And this one, fat, with glasses, is a worldwide freemason,” said Peronskaya, pointing to Bezukhov. - With his wife, then put him next to him: then that jester of peas!

The Order of Glory was established on November 8, 1943, simultaneously with the Order of Victory, at the moment when it became clear that the war would end with victory over Germany. The order was created on the personal initiative of I.V. Stalin and was the most "soldier's order" among all military awards. For the first time, a proposal to create this award was made back in June 1943 at a meeting of the People's Commissariat of Defense, at which the project of the Order "Victory" was discussed. The main idea behind the introduction of the new order was to reward the rank and file and junior officers of the Red Army for a wide variety of heroic deeds committed in battle. This order was issued only for specific achievements, which were strictly regulated by the statute.

The task to develop a new order was transferred to the Technical Committee of the Main Quartermaster Directorate of the spacecraft, which at that time was led by Lieutenant General S. V. Aginsky. The development of the order began here in August 1943. A team of 9 artists worked on the sketch of the award. In total, by October 2, 1943, they prepared 26 projects of the order, of which only 4 were presented to Stalin. As a result, he approved the sketch of the order, which was created by N. I. Moskalev, the author of the medal "To the Partisan of the Patriotic War", the Order of Kutuzov and all medals for the defense of cities in the USSR. According to the original plan, the order was supposed to have 4 degrees at once. In this, he had to repeat the pre-revolutionary Order of St. George and the “insignia of the military order” - the famous St. George Cross, one of the most respected royal awards among the people. Initially, the award was planned to be called the Order of Bagration, by analogy with the already existing "military orders". However, Stalin thought differently, he proposed calling the award the Order of Glory, explaining that “there is no victory without glory”, and also reduced the number of degrees to 3, by analogy with “commander orders”.

The Order of Glory had 3 degrees, the highest of which was considered the first degree. The awarding of this order was carried out sequentially: first, the soldier had to receive the order of the III degree, then the II degree, and at the end of the I degree. The Order of Glory was awarded to servicemen of the Red Army of sergeants and privates, in addition to this, servicemen with the rank of junior lieutenant could be presented to this order if they served in aviation. It is curious to note such a detail: full cavaliers of the Order of Glory had the right to receive an extraordinary military rank. So private and junior command staff(corporals and sergeants) automatically became foremen, foremen - junior lieutenants, and junior lieutenants - lieutenants.

The Order of Glory was awarded for courage, fearlessness and personal courage shown in a combat situation. Privates and junior officers could be presented to the order for the following accomplished heroic deeds: with the fire of an anti-tank rifle, they disabled at least 2 enemy tanks; from personal marksmanship, he destroyed from 10 to 50 enemy soldiers and officers; being in a tank on fire, he continued to fight; from personal weapons shot down an enemy aircraft; after being wounded and bandaged, he returned to duty again; captured an officer of the enemy army; driving a tank, destroyed one or more enemy guns or at least 2 machine-gun nests; a fighter pilot who destroyed from 2 to 4 enemy aircraft in one battle; attack pilot for the destruction of 2 to 5 enemy tanks in one raid. And that's just small part provisions of the statute of this award. In total, there were 32 specific combat situations that involved awarding a soldier with the Order of Glory.

It is worth noting that the Order of Glory by Soviet standards was not the most common order, having a number of features inherent only to it:

1) It was the only Soviet military order that was intended to be awarded only to privates and sergeants (and junior lieutenants in aviation).
2) The Order of Glory was awarded only in ascending order, from the lowest degree (III) to the highest (I). This order of awarding in the Soviet Union was repeated only 30 years later in the statutes of the orders "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" and Labor Glory.
3) Until 1974, the Order of Glory was the only Soviet order that was issued exclusively for personal merit and was never issued to military units, organizations, or enterprises.
4) According to the statute of the Order of Glory, the cavalier of all 3 degrees was promoted in rank, which was an exception for the entire award system of the USSR.
5) The colors of the sash completely repeated the colors of the pre-revolutionary imperial order of St. George, which was at least unexpected for the Soviet Union of Stalin's times.
6) The design and color of the sash were the same for all 3 degrees of the award, which was also typical only for the pre-revolutionary award system and was never used in the Soviet award system.

Order of Glory III degree

The Order of Glory was a five-pointed star, the distance between its opposite peaks was 46 mm. In the central part of the five-pointed star there was a round medallion, the diameter of the medallion was 23.5 mm. The Kremlin Spasskaya Tower was depicted on the medallion. A laurel wreath passed around the circumference of the medallion. At the bottom of the circle there was an inscription "Glory" (all letters were capital), the inscription was located on a ribbon covered with red enamel. On the reverse side of the award there was a circle with a diameter of 19 mm, on which the inscription USSR was located in the middle. With the help of a ring and an eye, the award was attached to a standard pentagonal block, which was covered with a silk ribbon 24 mm wide. There were 5 longitudinal alternating stripes on the tape: 3 black and 2 orange, the width of the stripes was the same. Along the edges of the tape there was one small orange strip only 1 mm wide.

The Order of Glory, 1st class, was made from 950 gold. The award contained 28.619 ± 1.425 g of gold, its total weight was 30.414 ± 1.5 g. The Order of Glory II degree was made of silver, while the circle with the image of the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin was gilded. The award contained 20.302 ± 1.222 g of silver, its total weight was 22.024 ± 1.5 g. The Order of Glory III degree was also made of silver. The award contained 20.549 ± 1.388 g of silver, its total weight was 22.260 ± 1.6 g.

The right to award the Order of Glory of the III degree was granted to the commanders of formations of the active army from the brigade commander and above. The Order of Glory, II degree, could be awarded to a soldier by the commanders of an army or flotilla. The Order of Glory, 1st class, was awarded only on the proposal of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces. The first awarding of the Order of Glory took place already on November 13, 1943, that is, 5 days after the establishment of a new award.

On November 13, an award sheet was signed on the presentation to the Order of Glory of the III degree of sapper senior sergeant V. S. Malyshev, who during the battle managed to get close to an enemy machine gun that impeded the advance Soviet troops and destroyed it. Later, Malyshev will also receive the Order of Glory II degree. According to other sources, Sergeant G. A. Israelyan, also a sapper, received the first award. Apparently, Malyshev was the first to be presented to the order, but the award was presented to him later, when Sergeant Israelyan had already received it. It is worth noting that the orders were sent to various sectors of the front in batches, after which they were distributed among the headquarters of the formations, which had the right to be awarded. For this reason, the order that was issued earlier often had a higher number than the award issued later.

Honored Artist of the RSFSR Smirnov Alexei Makarovich, Commander of the Orders of Glory II and III degree

The first cavaliers of the Order of Glory II degree were sappers of the 10th Army from the 1st Belorussian Front, these were privates A. G. Vlasov and S. I. Baranov. By the end of the Great Patriotic War, both of these fighters also received the Order of Glory of the 1st degree, becoming full holders of the Order of Glory. The first award of the Order of Glory, 1st class, was made in July 1944. First in Soviet army senior sergeant K. K. Shevchenko became a Knight of the Order of Glory. At that time, Shevchenko was an assistant commander of a reconnaissance platoon as part of a separate ski battalion. At the same time, sapper corporal M.T. Pitenin became a full holder of the Order of Glory, the decree on his award was signed on July 22, 1944, but the soldier did not live to receive the award, he was killed in battle even before the signing of this decree. Shevchenko was much more fortunate in this regard, he successfully went through the war, having managed to receive, among other things, the Order of the Red Banner, the Red Star, and the Patriotic War. It was this fact: the presence of three Orders of Glory and three other Soviet military orders made him a real phenomenon. In those years, not every colonel had 6 military orders, and even Soviet general.

During the war, a rather interesting incident occurred when an entire unit - all of its fighters, except for officers - was awarded the Order of Glory. It's about about the 1st battalion of the 215th rifle regiment of the 77th guards division. In the battles for the liberation of Poland during the breakthrough of the German defense line on the Vistula on January 14, 1945, the soldiers of this battalion were able to capture 3 rows of enemy trenches and held the captured positions until the approach of the main attacking forces. During this battle, Guards Sergeant I.E. Petrov repeated the feat of Matrosov, closing the embrasure of the German pillbox with his chest. All privates, sergeants and foremen of this battalion became holders of the Order of Glory. The officers were also not left without awards, platoon commanders were presented with the Order of Alexander Nevsky, company commanders - with the Order of the Red Banner, and the commander of the guard battalion, Major B. N. Yemelyanov, became a Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).

In total, about 1 million orders of the III degree, more than 46 thousand orders of the II degree, as well as 2672 Orders of Glory of the I degree were awarded for distinction during the Great Patriotic War. After the war, it was found that among the 2672 full cavaliers of the Order of Glory, there were 80 people who, due to mistakes, had 4 Orders of Glory instead of 3, one of the junior degrees was duplicated. Also, among the full cavaliers of the Order of Glory, there was one person who was awarded 5 orders at once (he was presented to the Order of Glory II degree three times) - this is D. I. Kokhanovsky. At the same time, he was deprived of all his titles and awards in connection with the conviction.

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In the photo: Anatoly Efimovich Golikov. There were only about 20 such young heroes (born in 1926).
The Order of Glory was established on November 8, 1943, simultaneously with the Order of Victory, at the moment when it became clear that the war would end with victory over Germany. The order was created on the personal initiative of I.V. Stalin and was the most "soldier's order" among all military awards. For the first time, a proposal to create this award was made back in June 1943 at a meeting of the People's Commissariat of Defense, at which the project of the Order "Victory" was discussed. The main idea behind the introduction of the new order was to reward the rank and file and junior officers of the Red Army for a wide variety of heroic deeds committed in battle. This order was issued only for specific achievements, which were strictly regulated by the statute.

The task to develop a new order was transferred to the Technical Committee of the Main Quartermaster Directorate of the spacecraft, which at that time was led by Lieutenant General S. V. Aginsky. The development of the order began here in August 1943. A team of 9 artists worked on the sketch of the award. In total, by October 2, 1943, they prepared 26 projects of the order, of which only 4 were presented to Stalin. As a result, he approved the sketch of the order, which was created by N. I. Moskalev, the author of the medal "To the Partisan of the Patriotic War", the Order of Kutuzov and all medals for the defense of cities in the USSR. According to the original plan, the order was supposed to have 4 degrees at once. In this, he had to repeat the pre-revolutionary Order of St. George and the "insignia of the military order" - the famous St. George's Cross, one of the most respected royal awards among the people. Initially, the award was planned to be called the Order of Bagration, by analogy with the already existing "military orders". However, Stalin thought differently, he proposed calling the award the Order of Glory, explaining that “there is no victory without glory”, and also reduced the number of degrees to 3, by analogy with “commander orders”.

The Order of Glory had 3 degrees, the highest of which was considered the first degree. The awarding of this order was carried out sequentially: first, the soldier had to receive the order of the III degree, then the II degree, and at the end of the I degree. The Order of Glory was awarded to servicemen of the Red Army of sergeants and privates, in addition to this, servicemen with the rank of junior lieutenant could be presented to this order if they served in aviation. It is curious to note such a detail: full cavaliers of the Order of Glory had the right to receive an extraordinary military rank. So the private and junior command staff (corporal and sergeant) automatically became foremen, foremen - junior lieutenants, and junior lieutenants - lieutenants.

The Order of Glory was awarded for courage, fearlessness and personal courage shown in a combat situation. Privates and junior officers could be presented to the order for the following accomplished heroic deeds: with the fire of an anti-tank rifle, they disabled at least 2 enemy tanks; from personal weapons, with marksmanship, destroyed from 10 to 50 enemy soldiers and officers; being in a tank on fire, he continued to fight; from personal weapons shot down an enemy aircraft; after being wounded and bandaged, he returned to duty again; captured an officer of the enemy army; driving a tank, destroyed one or more enemy guns or at least 2 machine-gun nests; a fighter pilot who destroyed from 2 to 4 enemy aircraft in one battle; attack pilot for the destruction of 2 to 5 enemy tanks in one raid. And this is only a small part of the provisions of the statute of this award. In total, there were 32 specific combat situations that involved awarding a soldier with the Order of Glory.

It is worth noting that the Order of Glory by Soviet standards was not the most common order, having a number of features inherent only to it:

Order of Glory III degree

On November 13, an award sheet was signed on the presentation to the Order of Glory, III degree, sapper senior sergeant V. S. Malyshev, who during the battle managed to get close to an enemy machine gun that impeded the advance of Soviet troops and destroyed it. Later, Malyshev will also receive the Order of Glory II degree. According to other sources, Sergeant G. A. Israelyan, also a sapper, received the first award. Apparently, Malyshev was the first to be presented to the order, but the award was presented to him later, when Sergeant Israelyan had already received it. It is worth noting that the orders were sent to various sectors of the front in batches, after which they were distributed among the headquarters of the formations, which had the right to be awarded. For this reason, the order that was issued earlier often had a higher number than the award issued later.

Honored Artist of the RSFSR Smirnov Alexei Makarovich, Commander of the Orders of Glory II and III degree

The first in history holders of the Order of Glory II degree were sappers of the 10th Army from the 1st Belorussian Front, these were privates A. G. Vlasov and S. I. Baranov. By the end of the Great Patriotic War, both of these fighters also received the Order of Glory of the 1st degree, becoming full holders of the Order of Glory. The first award of the Order of Glory, 1st class, was made in July 1944. Senior Sergeant K. K. Shevchenko became the first holder of the Order of Glory in the Soviet army. At that time, Shevchenko was an assistant commander of a reconnaissance platoon as part of a separate ski battalion. At the same time, sapper corporal M.T. Pitenin became a full holder of the Order of Glory, the decree on his award was signed on July 22, 1944, but the soldier did not live to receive the award, he was killed in battle even before the signing of this decree. Shevchenko was much more fortunate in this regard, he successfully went through the war, having managed to receive, among other things, the Order of the Red Banner, the Red Star, and the Patriotic War. It was this fact: the presence of three Orders of Glory and three other Soviet military orders made him a real phenomenon. In those years, not every colonel and even a Soviet general had 6 military orders.

During the war, a rather interesting incident occurred when an entire unit - all of its fighters, except for officers - was awarded the Order of Glory. We are talking about the 1st battalion of the 215th rifle regiment of the 77th guards division. In the battles for the liberation of Poland during the breakthrough of the German defense line on the Vistula on January 14, 1945, the soldiers of this battalion were able to capture 3 rows of enemy trenches and held the captured positions until the approach of the main attacking forces. During this battle, Guards Sergeant I.E. Petrov repeated the feat of Matrosov, closing the embrasure of the German pillbox with his chest. All privates, sergeants and foremen of this battalion became holders of the Order of Glory. The officers were also not left without awards, platoon commanders were presented with the Order of Alexander Nevsky, company commanders - with the Order of the Red Banner, and the commander of the guard battalion, Major B. N. Yemelyanov, became a Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).

In total, about 1 million orders of the III degree, more than 46 thousand orders of the II degree, as well as 2672 Orders of Glory of the I degree were awarded for distinction during the Great Patriotic War. After the war, it was found that among the 2672 full cavaliers of the Order of Glory, there were 80 people who, due to mistakes, had 4 Orders of Glory instead of 3, one of the junior degrees was duplicated. Also among the full holders of the Order of Glory there was one person who was awarded 5 orders at once (he was presented to the Order of Glory of the II degree three times) - this is D. I. Kokhanovsky. At the same time, he was deprived of all his titles and awards in connection with the conviction.

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