Most famous bearers of the Order of St. Stanislas from the 18th and 19th
centuriesThe highest rank in the history of this order of the world is awarded by the fact that the six first Grand Masters were
kings, Grand Dukes or Emperors, Tsars. This is unique in world orders. The supreme leadership is the Grand Master,
who comes from the high nobility, he leads the Order as Sovereign and Head of the Order.
- Wilhelm II Hohenzollern - The last emperor of Germany and Prussia ( 1 st class O.St.S. 1793)
- His Royal Highness the Duke of Strathearn, member of the British royal family, a grandson of Queen Victoria, the
nephew of King Edward VII, the son of Arthur and his lady wife Princess Louise Margaret. (1st class O.St.S.). - King of Norway Haakon VII - Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel, Prince of Denmark, and Iceland
(1st class O.St.S.) - George V Frederic Ernest Albert, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and Ireland. (1st class O.St.S.)
- Edward VII, Albert Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the King of the United Kingdom, and Ireland and the British
Dominions and Emperor of India. (1st class O.St.S.) - Alojzy Fryderyk Józef von Brühl, General of the Artillery of the Crown, diplomat, dramaturge, poet. (1st class O.St.S.)
- Jakob Johann Sievers - Russian general, diplomat, freemason. December 5, 1792, appointed a member of the
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Catherine II in the Republic. He received the Order of the White Eagle in 1793.
(1st class O.St.S.) - Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Prince Crest Ciołek, Polish General, Minister of War and Chief of the Polish Armed Forces
of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, was Marshal of France, a member of the Council of the State of the Grand Duchy of
Warsaw. (1st class O.St.S. 1793) - Michał Kleofas Ogiński, from Retow, Prince-Starolitewski and Polish composer and musician, Diarist, political writer,
(1st class O.St.S. 1793) - Baron Franz von Koller, (born November 27, 1767 in Münchengrätz, † August 22, 1826 in Naples) was in 1813
Adjutant of General Schwarzenberg and accompanied in 1814 as an Austrian commissaire Napoleon to Elba.
(1st class O.St.S. 1815) - Wilhelm I of Hesse-Kassel comes from the Hesse family, called William IX, from 1760 Count of Hanau, Landgrave of
Hesse-Kassel. (1st class O.St.S. 1804) - Giulio Renato de Litta Visconti Arese, born in Milan in 1763, from one of the most famous families of the Patrician
nobility. Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Admiral of the Naval Forces of the Russian Empire.
(1st class O.St.S.) - Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, coat of arms Virgo Violatta - Polish general, participant of the Kościuszko Uprising, creator
of the Polish legions in Italy, initiator of the larger Polish uprising in 1806, commander of the Polish troops in 1813,
senator voivode of the Polish kingdom in 1815. After the Death of Prince Józef Poniatowski he was Commander-in-Chief
of the Army of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. (1st class O.St.S.) - Józef Rufin Wybicki Arms of Rogala, Polish writer and politician, Chamberlain of Polish King Stanisław August
Poniatowski in 1780. During a visit to a camp of legions in Italy in 1797 created the words of the songs that later
became the Polish national anthem Mazurka Dąbrowski. (1st class O.St.S. 1793) - Franz Liszt. The outstanding Hungarian composer and pianist, one of the most important representatives of
Romanticism in music. He was the predecessor of the new genre in classical music - Symphonic Poem (1st class O.St.S.) - Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi - Italian Romantic composer. (1st class O.St.S.)