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Bairam Khan nodded in approval, his eyes gleaming with admiration for his comrade's quick thinking. "A wise decision, Alu Quili Khan," he praised. "Your actions have dealt a significant blow to our enemies and bolstered our own forces.

Empire Ascension: The Rise of the Fated One

History · Jeet_1993

After being awarded the Order of Saint George 1st Class in another extravagant awards ceremony that Bruno would rather not have attended. Bruno officially disbanded the Iron Division and returned to the German Reich. 

Re: Blood and Iron

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The next two awards were actually the same order, just of different classes. They were the most exceptional honors granted by the Russian Empire for military excellence. Bruno was finally awarded the Order of Saint George, both in the Fourth Class and the Second Class. 

Re: Blood and Iron

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The next two awards were actually the same order, just of different classes. They were the most exceptional honors granted by the Russian Empire for military excellence. Bruno was finally awarded the Order of Saint George, both in the Fourth Class and the Second Class. 

Re: Blood and Iron

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Bruno was astonished when the Tsar wrapped a crimson velvet sash around his body and pinned a breast star below the row of medals he had already received. This was the first of such an award Bruno had been granted in this life. The sash had a medal at the end of it, which Bruno recognized as the military variant of the Imperial Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky. 

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Following this was the Order of Saint Vladimir. Like the previous two, this award conferred the rank of nobility, though that had only been the case before 1900. After that, only the 1st Class conferred personal nobility, not hereditary nobility like the other two awards.

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The next award was the Order of Saint Anna, also of the 3rd Class. Like the previous award, it had four classes, with the lowest being a mere button rather than a medal. Bruno's variant also had two crossed swords to signify military valor in combat. 

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Either way, these were honors Bruno could not reject. At the furthest end was the least significant award: the Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd Class. The Order of Saint Stanislaus was originally a Polish award granted by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth but was later adopted by the House of Romanov as a dynastic award given to distinguished civilians and soldiers as a means of granting them nobility. 

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To be honest, Bruno doubted there was a single decade in human history where the entirety of humanity was free from some form of bloody conflict. It was simply a part of human nature to fight over everything under the sun, political ideology, religion, land, resources, hell there was one war that was quite literally fought over a wooden bucket. 

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