Russia, Imperial. An Order of St. Stanislaus, II Class in Gold, by Eduard Buy Now he died in a suicide

he died in a suicide pact with his mistress

Footnote: The various officers were given enamelled badges

with Dutch tax hallmark in the form of a script letter "I" denoting minimum fineness of

with a separately attached blackened/patinated eagle’s head

the other sewn upon a black cotton mesh base

Russia, Imperial. An Order of St. Stanislaus, II Class in Gold, by Eduard Buy Now he died in a suicide( ). Instituted in 1765 in Poland and adopted in 1831 as an Imperial Russian Order. An 14kt Gold Maltese Cross with ball finials and fans along the outer edges of the arms and with small gilded Russian Imperial eagles in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enamelled medallion bearing a hand painted set of SS lettering surrounded by a green enamelled laurel wreath, the reverse with a matching hand painted white