The “100 Great Awards” series is continued by the book “100 Great Awards”, which in a fascinating way tells about the emergence of awards in the ancient world, in the Middle Ages, about spiritual knightly orders, secular orders of Russia, England, France, Germany and other countries Europe, Asia, America for many centuries. The reader will learn about such orders as the Jerusalem Order of the Holy Sepulcher, the English Order of the Garter, the Polish Order of the White Eagle, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Order of St. Stephen, the French Order of the Legion of Honor, the Bulgarian Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius, about such famous prizes as the Nobel Prize, Goncourt, Pulitzer, about the highest awards of the Soviet state and Russia. The book does not pretend to be a universal reference book that would contain information about all the orders that have ever existed, about their statutes, wearing rules and other details. It will serve as a kind of manual for curious and inquisitive readers who will be able to get answers to a number of their questions from it.