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ALEXIS FEDOROVICH ORLOV, PRINCE (1787...

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ALEXIS FEDOROVICH See also:ORLOV, See also:PRINCE (1787–1862) , See also:Russian statesman, the son of a natural son of See also:Count See also:Theodore Grigorievich Orlov, took See also:part in all the See also:Napoleonic See also:wars from 1805 to the See also:capture of See also:Paris. For his services as See also:commander of the See also:cavalry See also:regiment of the See also:Life See also:Guards on the occasion of the See also:rebellion of 1825 he was created a count, and in the See also:Turkish See also:War of 1828–29 See also:rose to the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant-See also:general. It is from this See also:time that the brilliant See also:diplomatic career of Orlov begins. He was the Russian plenipotentiary at the See also:peace of See also:Adrianople, and in 1833 was appointed Russian See also:ambassador at See also:Constantinople, holding at the same time the See also:post of commanderin-See also:chief of the See also:Black See also:Sea See also:fleet. He was, indeed, one of the most trusty agents of See also:Nicholas I., whom in 1837 he accompanied on his See also:foreign tour. In 1854 he was sent to See also:Vienna to bring See also:Austria over to the See also:side of See also:Russia, but without success. In 1856 he was one of the plenipotentiaries who concluded the peace of Paris. The same See also:year he was raised to the dignity of prince, and was appointed See also:president of the imperial See also:council of See also:state and of the council of ministers. In 1857, during the See also:absence of the See also:emperor, he presided over the See also:commission formed to consider the question of the emancipation of the See also:serfs, to which he was altogether hostile. His only son, PRINCE NIKOLAI ALEKSYEEVICH ORLOV (1827–1885), was a distinguished Russian diplomatist and author. He first adopted a military career, and was seriously wounded in the See also:Crimean War. Subsequently he entered the diplomatic service, and represented Russia successively at See also:Brussels (1860-1870), Paris (1870–1882) and See also:Berlin (1882–1885).

As a publicist he stood in the forefront of reform. His articles on See also:

corporal See also:punishment, which appeared in Russkaya Starina in 1881, brought about its abolition. He also advocated tolerance towards the dissenters. His See also:historical See also:work, See also:Sketch of Three See also:Weeks' See also:Campaign in r8o6 (St See also:Petersburg, 1856) is still of value. (R. N.

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