Беседы о фалеристике (L)

Falera was the award plaque of a Roman legionnaire, awarded for valor. This is where the name of the doctrine of rewards comes from - faleristics. The pages of faleristics tell about exploits and courage, about nobility and self-sacrifice, about duty and selflessness. Faleristics is dramatic, just as history itself is dramatic... The book by I.V. Vsevolodov (the pseudonym of the historian Igor Mozheiko, also known to readers as the science fiction writer Kir Bulychev), first published in 1990, is a vivid and fascinating chronicle of history. Here are award badges of Antiquity, spiritual and knightly orders of the Middle Ages, and secular order unions of Japan and Europe, and medals of Ivan the Terrible, and regimental badges of the early 20th century, awards of the USSR and modern orders of foreign countries.