100 great gentlemen of the Order of St. Andrew the First -Called. Shishov A.

The history of the Order of St. Andrew the First -Called is divided into two periods - Imperial and post -Soviet. And in that and in another he remains the highest award of the state, which is awarded for outstanding merits in the field of industry, politics, culture and science. The order was restored in 1998, 300 years after its founding Peter I. The awards include: Dmitry Likhachev, Sergey Mikhalkov, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Lyudmila Zykina, Mikhail Gorbachev and Rasul Gamzatov. In the next book of the series, the reader learns about the gentlemen of the Order of the times of the Russian Empire, many of which were the pride and glory of our power.