Grigory Orlov
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Prince Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov was a favourite of the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (1772), state and military figure, collector, patron of arts, and General-in-Chief.
А. I. Chorny (Chernov). Portrait of Count G. G. Orlov. Hermitage Museum
Orlov's charter granting him the status of Count
Peter III of Russia
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Peter III Fyodorovich was Emperor of Russia from 5 January 1762 until 9 July of the same year, when he was overthrown by his wife, Catherine II. He was born in the German city of Kiel as Charles Peter Ulrich of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp, but he was a grandson of Peter the Great and a great-grandson of Charles XI of Sweden.
Portrait of Peter III by Georg Christoph Grooth, 1743
Peter's letter to his wife in French from 1746, the language of the Russian aristocracy
Portrait of Peter III by Aleksey Antropov, 1762