Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Alexei ki te whanau rangatira o Orlov i Lyubini i Tver Oblast i te, te tama a Grigory Ivanovich Orlov, kawana o Novgorod, me te tuakana o Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov. I uru ia ki te Regiment Preobrazhensky a, i te tau 1762 kua eke ia ki te taumata o te kaitiaki. I whai mana ia i te Pakanga o nga Tau e whitu, a i whara ia i te
Te Pakanga o Zorndorf. I whakaahuatia ia hei tangata nui, neke atu i te rua mita te roa, he kaitakaro rongonui, me te tohu puta noa i tona rae. Na te whiu i tapaina ai ia ko te ingoa'scarface'.