The Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitaller is a collection of charitable organisations claiming continuity with the Russian Orthodox grand priory of the Order of Saint John.
A portrait of Russian Admiral Fyodor Ushakov, Commander of the Black Sea Fleet. He is shown wearing the regalia of a Knight of Malta. The Knights moved to Russia during the times of the Revolution and Napoleon.
Emperor Paul wearing the Crown of the Grand Master of the Order of Malta (1799).
Count Vassiliev, a 19th-century Knight Commander, and Minister of Finance under Alexander I of Russia
José de Ribas
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Admiral José de Ribas y Boyons, known in Spanish as José Pascual Domingo de Ribas y Boyons, in Italian as Giuseppe de Ribas and in Russian as Iosif Mikhailovich Deribas, was a Spanish military officer
Portrait by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder (1796)
Monument to Ribas in Odesa, Ukraine