Peter III of Russia Order of Saint Andrew Embroidered Breast Star

Officer Caftan of the Life-Dragoon Regiment of the Holstein Army Holstein-Gottorp, Russia.
Cloth, silk, metal thread, wire and tombac; embroidered and gilded.
Length 109 cm. Circa 1750s.

Collection of Hermitage.

 

Transferred from the Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR (former Historical Department) to Hermitage in 1951.