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Portrait badge of Empress Catherine II (1762-1796). Detail of the portrait of Princess E. N. Orlova by Rokotov c.1779. Beneath it one can see her EII maid-of-honor cipher; and to the left, the sash of the Order of St Catherine (at that time there was only one class of the order). Courtesy The State Tretyakov Gallery.

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