By decrees issued in Madrid on 23 December 2003 by the Head of the Russian Imperial House, the Grand Master of the Russian Imperial and Tsarist Orders, H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, for services to the Fatherland, and in recognition of faithful service to the Russian Imperial House, and as a mark of Her Imperial Highness’s gratitude, the following named have been admitted to chivalric orders, with corresponding documentation given awardees by Her Imperial Highness herself, bestowing the right to wear the devices for the respective Orders:Order of St. Stanislav, First Class:Prince Andrei Sergeevich ObolenskiiChairman of the Russian Nobility Association and member of Her Imperial Highness’s Council of Heraldry (Moscow)Order of St. Anna, Second Class: Valerii Abisalovich GergievDirector, Artistic Coordinator, and Main Production Director of the Mariinskii Operatic Theater (St. Petersburg)Radii Ivanovich Il’kaevAcademic of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Russian Federal Atomic Center (Sarov)Archpriest Vsevolod ChaplinDeputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow)Evgenii Petrovich ChelyshevAcademic of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academic-Secretary of the Division of Literature and Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)Alexander Ivanovich ShkurkoDirector of the State Historical Museum (Moscow)Sigurd Ottovich SmidtAcademic of the Russian Academy of Education, Director of the Archeographical Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of Her Imperial Highness’s Council of Heraldry (Moscow)Order of St. Stanislav, Second Class: Georgii Mitrofanovich MoiseevGeneral-Secretary of the Russian Imperial Union-Order (Canada)Order of St. Anna, Third Class: Vissarion Igorevich AliavdinFilm Director, Producer of the Film Series “The Imperial House in Exile” (Moscow)Grigorii Igorevich AliavdinSecretary of Her Imperial Highness’s Council of Heraldry (Moscow)Sergei Nikolaevich EpikhovPublisher of the Book Romanovs and Russia (USA)Mikhail Nikolaevich KulybinEditor of the Newspaper Monarkhist (St. Petersburg)German Iur’evich Luk’ianovHead of the Legal Division of His Imperial Highness’s Chancellery (Moscow)Arkadii Aleksandrovich MorozovGeneral Director of the Russian Imperial Union-Order in AustraliaGeorgii Mikhailovich NekrasovCaptain, Second Rank, retired (Australia)Konstanin Valerievich RomanovDeputy Director of the Museum of the Russian Flag (Moscow)Boris Sergeevich TurovskiiHead of the St. Petersburg Section of the Russian Imperial Union-Order (St. Petersburg)Anatolii Ivanovich KhorevMember of the Governing Board of the St. Petersburg Assembly of the Nobility, Lieutenant-Colonel in the forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (St. Petersburg)Oleg Viacheslavovich ShcherbachevDeputy to H.I.H.’s Master of Heraldry, Vice-Director of the Russian Nobility Association (Moscow) By decrees issued in Madrid on 23 December 2003 by the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, for services to the Fatherland, and in recognition of numerous years of faithful service to the Russian Imperial House, and as a mark of Her Imperial Highness’s gratitude, the following named have been granted the status of hereditary nobleman of the Russian Empire, with all attendant rights and privileges thereto pertaining, with such status also accorded to spouses and to legitimate children, whether born before or subsequent to these patents of nobility:Aleksei Vladimirovich BatalovPeople’s Artist of the USSSR (Moscow)Igor’ Vasil’evich SakharovPresident of the Russian Genealogical Society, member of the Council of Heraldry of H.I.H (St. Petersburg)Gennadii Ivanovich ChizhProfessor, Doctor of Medicine (Rostov-on-the-Don)Aleksandr Iur’evich ChukhonkinHead of the Samara Section of the Russian Imperial Union-Order, publisher of the newspaper Samarskie gubernskie vedomostiIaroslav Nikolaevich ShchapovMember-Correspondent of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of History, member of the Council of Heraldry of H.I.H. (Moscow)By decrees issued in Madrid on 23 December 2003 by the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, for services to the Fatherland, for special services rendered to the Russian Imperial House and as a mark of Her Imperial Highness’s gratitude, the following named are awarded the medal with Her Imperial Highness’s Monogram:First Class: Count Dimitrii Nikolaevich VuichGeneral Director of the Russian Nobility Association in AustraliaGeorgii Vasil’evich KumanskiiDeputy Commander of the Russian Imperial Union-Order (USA)General-Colonel Nikolai Ivanovich SerdtsevCommanding General of Engineering Forces of the Russian Federation (Moscow)Georgii Aleksandrovich FedorovCommander of the Russian Imperial Union-Order (USA)Second Class: Vladislav Valerievich Pil’kevichDirector of the Christian-Monarchist Union of Ukraine, Director of the Museum of the Imperial Family (Kiev)Aleksei Ivanovich RybakinHead of the private security company “RiK plus” (Moscow)Andrei Iur’evich SorokinDeputy Chair of the St. Petersburg Section of the Russian Imp erial Union-Order (St. Petersburg)Major-General Salikhian Khabibovich ShamsunovDeputy Chair of the Main Administration of the Department of Corrections for the Russian Federation (Moscow)from the Chancellery of H.I.H.Master of Heraldry, S. 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