Lyubov Orlova
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Lyubov Petrovna Orlova was a Soviet and Russian actress, singer, dancer and People's Artist of the USSR (1950).
Lyubov Orlova's parents, Evgeniya Nikolaevna Sukhotina (1863—1945) and Pyotr Fedorovich Orlov (1867—1938), 19th century
Lyubov Orlova with her parents, early 1930s
Lyubov Orlova sings with Grigoi Aleksandrov in 1937
Russian nobility
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The Russian nobility or dvoryanstvo arose in the Middle Ages. In 1914, it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members, out of a total population of 138,200,000. Up until the February Revolution of 1917, the Russian noble estates staffed most of the Russian government and possessed a self-governing body, the Assembly of the Nobility.
An assembly of nobility at the time of Catherine the Great (reigned 1762 – 1796)
Maria Gendrikova's comital charter of 1742
Portrait of Princess Leonilla Bariatinskaya, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
Peter the Great (1672–1725) reformed the Russian nobility.