Russian Empire
- 1708 - General-Admiral Count Fyodor Apraksin (1661–1728)
- 1727 - Admiral Generalissimus Prince Alexander Menshikov (1673-1729)
- 1740 - General-Admiral Count Andrei Osterman (1686–1747)
- 1756 - General-Admiral Prince Mikhail Golitsyn (1681–1764)
- 1762 - General-Admiral HIM Tsar Paul I (1754–1801)
- 1784 - General-Field marshal Prince Grigori Potemkin (1739–1791)
- 1796 - Navy General-Field marshal Count Ivan Chernyshyov (1726-1797)
- 1831 - General-Admiral HIH Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich (1827–1892)
- 1883 - General-Admiral HIH Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich (1850–1908)
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