Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov (1734<unk>1783), nana nei i hanga mo tona whanau he hitori rongonui a Ruhia, ko te tama a Gregory Orlov, he kawana o Great Novgorod. I whakaakona ia i roto i te ope o nga kaiako i St Petersburg, i tiimata tana mahi hoia i te Pakanga e whitu-Tau, a i whara ia
i Zorndorf. I a ia e mahi ana i te taone nui hei rangatira puhipuhi, i aro atu ia ki a Grand Duchess Catherine Alekseyevna, a ko ia te kaiarahi o te whakapae i hua ai te whakakorenga me te mate o tana tahu a Peter III (1762).