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Prince Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov ( Russian: Григорий Григорьевич Орлов; 17 October 1734 – 24 April 1783 [a]) 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. [1]
Apr 20, 2024 · Grigory Orlov (born October 6 [October 17, New Style], 1734, Lyutkino, Tver province, Russia—died April 13 [April 24], 1783, Neskuchnoye, near Moscow) was a military officer and lover of Catherine the Great, empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. He organized the coup d’état that placed Catherine on the Russian throne and subsequently was ...
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May 15, 2020 · Army officer Grigory Potemkin was arguably the greatest love of Catherine’s life, though her relationship with Grigory Orlov, who helped the empress overthrow Peter III, technically lasted ...
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Nov 19, 2021 · Six months after he ascended the throne, Catherine mounted a coup with the help of her lover Grigory Orlov, leading 14,000 soldiers on horseback to the Winter Palace and unseating her husband ...
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May 5, 2024 · Grigory Grigoryevich, Count Orlov, portrait by Vigilius Eriksen; in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. (more) The empress Elizabeth died on December 25, 1761 (January 5, 1762, New Style), while Russia, allied with Austria and France, was engaged in the Seven Years’ War against Prussia.
Oct 21, 2019 · Orlov forced Peter III to sign an abdication document, and Catherine faced no major challenge to her claim to succeed him. ... Circa 1790 portrait of Grigory Potemkin by Johann Baptist von Lampi ...
Orlov Count Grigory Orlov, by Fyodor Rokotov. Grigory Orlov, the grandson of a rebel in the Streltsy uprising (1698) against Peter the Great, distinguished himself in the Battle of Zorndorf (25 August 1758), receiving three wounds. He represented an opposite to Peter's pro-Prussian sentiment, with which Catherine disagreed.
