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Remio

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Counts Orlov
« on: January 28, 2006, 01:38:59 PM »

Hello everybody!! :)
At the moment I am looking for informations about the Catherine II's lover. I want to have informations about his collections and the furniture of his palaces (in particular for the Marble palace). thank you!! ;)
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David_Pritchard

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Re: Counts Orlov
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2006, 04:16:45 PM »


Engraving of Grigory Grigorevich Orlov



The coat-of-arms of Grigory Grigorevich Orlov as a Count of the Russian Empire and as a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.



Count Aleksei Grigorevich Bobrinskoy, born on 11 April 1752 at Saint Petersburg and died at Bogoroditsk on 20 June 1813, the natural son of Count Grigory Grigorevich Orlov and Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseievna (later Empress Ekaterina II)



Portrait of Count Aleksei Bobrinsky as a Child painted by Carl-Ludwig Johann Christineck in 1769, oil on canvas.

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AkshayChavan

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Re: Counts Orlov
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2006, 05:43:36 PM »
What happened to large orlov estates? I believe Alexey Orlov had a daughter. Who did she marry?
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David_Pritchard

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Re: Counts Orlov
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2006, 10:29:12 PM »
The brother of Prince Grigory Grigorevich Orlov, Count Aleksei  Grigorevich Orlov-Chesmenskii had one child: Countess Anna Alekseevna Orlova-Chesmenskaya, born 1785 and died 1848. After the death of her father she inherited a large fortune. In her youth she served at the Imperial Court as a Kamer-Freilein. She married Count N.M. Kamenski but did not find it fullfilling so she turned to religion for peace of mind under the guidence of Arkhimandrite Fotiya at the Aleksandro-Nevskoi Lavra. Countess Anna dedicated a large amount of the yearly incomes from the Orlov properties to the maintainence and construction of churches and monastaries including the Yureva Monastery in the Novgorod Province of which Arkhimandrite Fotiya was the Superior. She also established and supported educational programs for the serfs on her estates in order for them to better their lives.

David
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Remio

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Re: Counts Orlov
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2006, 02:53:45 AM »
Thank you for these pictures David_Pritchard!!! ;)
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David_Pritchard

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Re: Counts Orlov
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2006, 12:46:58 PM »


A portrait of Count Aleksei Grigorevich Orlov-Chesmenskii.



The coat-of-arms of Count Aleksei Grigorevich Orlov-Chesmenskii.



A black and white photograph of a portrait of Countess Anna Alekseevna Orlova-Chesmenskaya.


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David_Pritchard

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Re: Counts Orlov
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2006, 04:10:51 PM »
Dear Andrei,

Obvoiusly I did not pay enough attention while I was typing the caption, or my large fingers hit the five key accidently. Thank you correcting this error.

David
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AkshayChavan

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Re: Counts Orlov
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2006, 07:19:05 AM »
Prince Gregory Orlov has been potrayed as a good looking muscle bound pea-brained dumb stud. However i think this description is not quiet true. I believe he did have very liberal views on serfdom and liberty. He was not as stupid as he is made out to be. I believe this image was deliberatly spread by his enemies to discredit him.
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