Grigory Orlov
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Prince Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov was a Russian general and patron of arts who was Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and a favourite of Empress Catherine the Great. He was a leader of the 1762 coup whic
Count Grigory Orlov, by Fyodor Rokotov
А. I. Chorny (Chernov). Portrait of Count G. G. Orlov. Hermitage Museum
Orlov's charter granting him the status of Count
Ekaterina Orlova (courtier)
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Princess Ekaterina Nikolaevna Orlova was a Russian courtier. She served as a lady-in-waiting to Empress Catherine the Great from 1773–1777, and in 1777 married her cousin Grigory Orlov, a favourite of
Grigory Orlov
…some years. He returned to Russia a few months prior to his death in Moscow in 1783. In 1777, at the age of 43, he married his 18-year-old relative, Catherine Zinovyeva, variously described by sources as either a niece or a cousin, but left no children by that marriage. Catherine died of tuberculosis in 1781, at the…
Portrait by Fyodor Rokotov, 1779
Princess Ekaterina Orlova cenotaph in Lausanne Cathedral/Switzerland.