Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko Orlov te tama a Gregory Orlov, kawana o Great Novgorod. He teina tana, ko Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, e whai mana ana i te taha hoia me te taha torangapu i Ruhia. I whakaakona a Grigory Orlov i roto i te roopu o nga kaiako i Saint Petersburg, i tiimata tana mahi hoia i te Pakanga e whitu nga Tau, a i whara ia i te
Ko Zorndorf. I a ia e mahi ana i te taone nui hei rangatira puhipuhi, ka mau ia i te whakaaro o te kawana nui o Catherine Alekseyevna, a ko ia te kaiarahi o te whakapae i hua ai te whakakorenga me te mate o tana tahu, Emperor Peter III (1762).