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ALEXIS GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (173...

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ALEXIS GRIGORIEVICH See also:ORLOV, See also:COUNT (1737-1808) , See also:brother of the above, was by far the ablest member of the Orlov countly See also:family, and was also remarkable for his athletic strength and dexterity. In the revolution of 1762 he played an even moreimportant See also:part than his brother See also:Gregory. It was he who conveyed See also:Peter III. to the See also:chateau of Ropsha and murdered him there with his own hands. In 1770 he was appointed See also:commander-in-See also:chief of the See also:fleet sent against the See also:Turks, whose far See also:superior See also:navy he annihilated at Cheshme (See also:July 5th 1770), a victory which led to the See also:conquest of the See also:Greek See also:archipelago. For this exploit he received, in 1774, the honorific epithet Chesmensky, and the See also:privilege of quartering the imperial arms in his See also:shield. The same See also:year he went into retirement and settled at See also:Moscow. He devoted himself to See also:horse-breeding, and produced the finest See also:race of horses then known by See also:crossing Arab and Frisian, and Arab and See also:English studs. In the See also:war with See also:Napoleon during 1806–07 Orlov commanded the See also:militia of the fifth See also:district, which was placed on a war footing almost entirely at his own expense. He See also:left an See also:estate See also:worth five millions of roubles and 30,000 See also:serfs. See See also:article, " The Associates of See also:Catherine II.," No. 2, in Russkaya Starina (Rus.) (St See also:Petersburg, 1873).

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