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5 unusual facts about Orlov


Catherine II and opera

The subject of the fairy tale on Fuflych-Bogatyr (Fuflych Unfortunate Hero) was suggested by Count Orlov.

Imperial Leather

The brand goes all the way back to 1768 when a Russian nobleman called Count Orlof commissioned a brand of perfume from Bayleys of Bond Street in London.

Ivan Orlov

Ivan Grigoryevich Orlov (1733–1791), brother of Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov

Mikhail Orlov

Mikhail Fyodorovich Orlov (1788–1842), Russian General-major and Decembrist

Orlov

The same year, on Catherine's request, he went to Livorno to seduce and bring to Russia the so-called Princess Tarakanova, who proclaimed herself daughter of Empress Elizabeth.


Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov

Orlov worked for several years at the Bolshevik High Tribunal under the tutelage of Nikolai Krylenko.

California Impressionism

Among the first group of painters to join the CAC included Tim Solliday, Bill Stout, Stephen Mirich, Steve Houston, Dan Goozee, Dan Pinkham,Sunny Apinchapong, Richard Rackus (b. 1922) and the Russian painters, Alexander Orlov and Alexey Steele.

Clisson et Eugénie

Count Orlov had spent time in France and was associated with the favourites of Tsarina Catherine the Great during this period.

Dmitry Orlov

Writing on Creative Loafing, Wayne Davis considers Orlov's views and anecdotal stories to be an easy read for a serious subject.

Embassy of the United Kingdom in Moscow

In 2007 a sculpture of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson as portrayed by Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin was erected on the embankment alongside the embassy (sculptor Andrey Orlov).

Enoch seminar

the United States (Harold Attridge, Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Gabriele Boccaccini, Darrell Bock, Daniel Boyarin, Silviu Bunta, Calum Carmichael, James H. Charlesworth, J. Harold Ellens, Steven Fraade, Charles A. Gieschen, Matthias Henze, John R. Levison, Jared Ludlow, Eric Mason, Andrei A. Orlov, Lawrence Schiffman, David W. Suter)

Erwin Friedlander

In 1978 Friedlander became actively involved in the worldwide human rights movement known as SOS — Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Sharansky.

International Institute for Young Musicians

Professors from 2007 included Charles Asche, Greg Knowles, Robert Koenig, John McCarthy, Lynda Metelsky, Marietta Orlov, Leonard Richter, Ronald Shinn, Claire Wachter, Jack Winerock, Fei Xu and the widely acclaimed Trio Fedele.

Johann Rall

From September 1771 until August 1772, he was in Russia and fought for Catherine the Great under Count Orlov in the Fourth Russo-Turkish War.

Lev of Optina

In 1804, after only five years at White Bluff, he was appointed by Bishop Dorotheus of Orlov and Svensk to succeed Fr.

Mikhail Orlov

Glenn Michael Souther, American defector to the Soviet Union who changed his name to Mikhail Yevgenyevich Orlov

Miners' Union in the Czechoslovak Republic

In the Ostrava-Karviná coalfields, three separate branches had been formed, one at Moravska Ostrava, one Polish branch at Karviná and one communist-dominated branch at Orlov.

Orlov Trotter

Even when Tsar Alexander I asked Orlov to sell him several stallions, Orlov only agreed to sell geldings.

Princess Tarakanoff

In 1950, a joint UK/Italian movie titled "Shadow Of The Eagle" was produced about the seduction mission by Aleksei Orlov of Princess Tarakanova, with Valentina Cortese portraying this Elizaveta and Richard Greene in the role of Count Orlov.

Ropsha

The reputation of the manor was too sinister for any improvement on the grounds to be effected and Orlov soon ceded the palace to Admiral Ivan Chernyshev, who sold it for 12,000 roubles to Ivan Lazarev, an Armenian jeweller.

Vipera dinniki

Orlov and Tuniyev (1990) give the lectotype locality as "Upper reaches of the Malaya (Small) Bolshaya Laba River, Northern Caucasus".


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